The 2018 Boston College men's soccer season ended with a resounding understanding of the ACC's margin of error. The team went 4-8-4 and lost to NC State in the first round of the conference tournament, but the players and coaches all knew things could have been different. Six of those defeats, after all, had been in one-goal games, and all had come against teams ranked in the national polls.
The year ended with that understanding: the Eagles could compete with the best but had to learn how to defeat those teams to return to the mantle of a national tournament contender.