Boston College's Shinskie Cut Off at the Pass

Dave Shinskie, Boston College's 25-year-old freshman quarterback, had the dubious distinction of completing more passes to Virginia Tech defenders than his own teammates during the Eagles' 48-14 loss to the Hokies on Saturday.

Of the 12 passes thrown by Shinskie, two were intercepted, one of which was returned 22 yards for a touchdown by Rashad Carmichael.

The one pass Shinskie completed to a teammate went for a measly four yards.

"When I came in on the first series, I don't know what I was seeing back there," Shinskie said.

So how bad was it? According to Marty Couvillon of cfbstats.com, Shinskie had a pass-efficiency rating of minus-22.20. That's the worst rating in the last five-plus seasons for players with 10 or more pass attempts in a game.

As for bad passing performances this season, Shinskie has company, and it's on his own team. Fellow quarterback Justin Tuggle completed only four of 20 passes in the Eagles' 25-7 loss to Clemson on Sept. 19. One of Tuggle's passes went for a touchdown, but three were intercepted.

His pass-efficiency rating of 16.16 is the third-worst of the season, behind Shinskie and Texas El Paso's Trevor Vittatoe, who had a 10.43 in the Miners' 64-7 loss to Texas on Sept. 26.

Comments

[Alaska Hokie]

Tech's first string offense was fantastic, and when the backups entered the game with 10 minutes remaining in the 3rd, I expected BC to get moving immediately. But it took them until the 4th quarter to do anything. Pretty amazing performance all around. Hope it's repeated the rest of the season.