Boston College Athletics
Boston College Downs Ramblin' Wreck
June 21, 1999 | Football
September 5, 1998
ATLANTA (AP) - Quarterback Scott Mutryn ran for two touchdowns and passed for another and Mike Cloud ran for 200 yards and two touchdowns to lead Boston College to a 41-31 victory over Georgia Tech on Saturday.
Mutryn shredded Tech's defense, hitting 16-of-26 for 220 yards. Tech, which finished 7-5 and 25th in the final AP poll last year, never led.
Quarterback Joe Hamilton passed six yards to fullback Ed Wilder to tie the game at 31 with 7:06 left, but Boston College scored on its next two possessions to pull away in the season opener for both teams.
After his defense yielded 429 yards a game last year, Tech coach George O'Leary brought in Randy Edsall, secondary coach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, to take over as defensive coordinator. However, Tech's defense barely slowed Boston College, whose 4-7 record last year included a 42-14 loss to Tech.
Boston College totaled 491 yards of offense.
Cloud, sidelined by a rib injury for last year's Tech game, carried 34 times and also caught a 9-yard pass.
Hamilton passed for two touchdowns, hitting 15-of-29 for 227 yards, and Charlie Rogers led Tech's running with 81 yards on six carries.
Both teams scored touchdowns in the last minute of the first half.
Linebacker Brian Maye picked off a tipped pass by Hamilton at the Eagles 38 with 55 seconds left, and Mutryn followed Cloud's 17-yard run with three straight completions, the last a 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Rob Tardio with 21 seconds left.
However, after a squibbed kickoff and penalty, Hamilton hit wide receiver Dez White with a 14-yard pass and found flanker David Powell in the end zone for a 23-yard score with 8 seconds left in the half.
Maye's interception ended Hamilton's streak of 161 passes without an interception, going back to the seventh game of 1997.
