It's become a seemingly annual rite of passage for the Boston College Eagles to be counted out before the season has started. Each season, the preseason polls are taken and the (alleged) ACC cognoscenti pick them to finish anywhere from middle of the pack to dead last—as they did this year.

It has become so commonplace that much of the people surrounding the program have come to expect it and ignore it, though it would be accurate to say it's a thorn in the collective side of the Eagles' fanbase.

As far as those inside the program, one could expect the perennial slighting to be an oft-used motivational tool. Regardless of where they have been predicted to finish in their five years of ACC play, BC has never finished outsi...

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