Boston College squanders 20-point lead, falls to Louisville

BOSTON (AP) — Tyler Shough threw his second touchdown pass to Nate Kurisky, a 6-yarder midway into the final quarter, and Louisville overcame a 20-point deficit to beat Boston College 31-27 on Friday night.

Coming off a high-scoring loss to No. 6 Miami last week, the Cardinals (5-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) sliced the score to 27-24 on Isaac Brown’s second TD run, an 18-yarder with just under 11 minutes left in the game.

After stopping BC on a three-and-out, the Cardinals went 63 yards in four plays for the go-ahead score when Kurisky was wide open in the right flat and trotted in for the TD.

Shough completed 28 of 38 passes for 333 yards with a 4-yard TD toss to Kurisky that made it 27-17 in the third quarter. But he was picked off twice, the second coming near midfield with just under four minutes to play.

BC got the ball back with 1:25 to play at its 35, moved to Louisville’s 42 before Thomas Castellanos’ Hail Mary pass went out of the back of the end zone to end the game.

Castellanos threw three touchdown passes — two coming on fourth-down plays in the first half — and the Eagles (4-4, 1-3 ACC) turned two early turnovers into scores to build a 20-0 lead.

Playing for the first time since he fumbled twice in a blowout loss at Virginia Tech, Castellanos was 13 of 28 for 164 yards.

Shough threw a pick to end its second drive of the game. Three drives later, Ahmari Huggins-Bruce fumble after making a catch over the middle.

Eagles defensive end Quintayvious Hutchins made both turnovers, picking off Shough along the sideline deep in BC territory. He also forced before recovering the fumble near midfield.