You'll have to excuse Allison Foley if she was a little bit pragmatic before Sunday. Her Boston College Eagles were 9-0 with seven shutouts, and confidence brimmed into an afternoon match against No. 7 Florida State. But this was the ACC, and there is always that little bit of a holdout on what happens in conference games.
"We played some good non-conference games," she said. "Texas Tech is a Top 20 team, so that was definitely a strong challenge (won by BC, 1-0). I thought we were in a good place (by ACC play). We had a starting 11 with good players off the bench, but there's that unknown until you play a Top 10 team.