BC's front took a scare in the opener when center Michael Crounse and left tackle Veguer Jean-Jumeau both left the Cincinnati game, but both were back in the lineup for the win over Rutgers the following week, and head coach Bill O'Brien never called either injury major. That's a healthier group up front than the one that got pushed around in Week 1.
Maine's issues run deeper than the scoreboard. The Black Bears managed just 53 rushing yards on 31 carries in last week's loss to Merrimack, a game they were favored in, and the defense has now been gouged for 299 and 211 rushing yards in the 2 games since their opening win.
Coach Jordan Stevens has been blunt that stopping the run is the fix that hasn't come, and there's no result on Maine's ledger this year that says Saturday looks any different. Boston College's own offense doesn't need to be sharp here, it just has to avoid the kind of mistakes that turned an early game in Cincinnati into a lopsided loss to open the season.
History leans the same direction as the current form. Maine has lost 5 of its meetings with Boston College since 2006 and is 1-13 against power-conference opponents since 2004, with that lone win coming at Mississippi State. Neither team is walking in banged up enough to change the shape of this one.