CHESTNUT HILL – There’s really not much more to say at this point.

You are what your record says you are and right now, Boston College is a lifeless football team.

With purple and orange taking over Alumni Stadium on Saturday night – although the BC student section did its part again, showing up in full force –  Clemson handed the Eagles a fifth straight loss, 41-10 in a game that was over at halftime.

BC is now 1-5 overall, 0-4 in the ACC and things just continue to snowball. More defensive injuries piled up, the offense was out-gained 504-221 and Bill O’Brien has no answers.

“Again, it starts with me,” he said. “I told the team this…I’m the head coach, I can’t figure out how to get this team how to play. I can’t get the coaching staff to coach it right. It’s on me. I’ve got to do a better job of coaching the team. I’ve got to do a better job of helping the coaches. It was just a terrible night. But, it’s football. It’s adversity…I know our guys will show up and be ready tomorrow.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for the guys in that locker room. They fought. Nobody quit. They played hard. We had chances to score on offense, you know? We just didn’t get it done. These guys will fight. They’re good BC guys. They’re going to fight. They know it’s not good right now, but they’re not going to quit.”

Oddly enough, the offense actually looked pretty good at times during the first half, but the defense lended little-to-no help, giving up four touchdowns and two field goals on Clemson’s six first half possessions.

The Tigers opened the game with the ball and went on a 13-play drive that ended with a 46-yard field goal following a third down sack by a returning Quintayvious Hutchins.

The Eagles immediately went three-and-out and Clemson quickly made it 10-0 on an eight-yard touchdown run by Adam Randall. BC put together a nice eight-play drive to answer, but it stalled and Luca Lombardo kicked a 45-yard field goal to make it 10-3 after one.

The Tigers’ ensuing drive began late in the first and ended early in the second after eight plays on a two-yard TD run for Peter Woods, making it 17-3.

BC went on a 10-play drive with another impressive response and got bailed out with both a pass interference and roughing the passer call on 3rd-&-6 from the Clemson eight. Turbo rumbled in one play later to cut it to 17-10 with 9:09 left in the half. Clemson wasted little time scoring again, this time using eight plays to waltz 68 yards. A six-yard TD run by Cade Klubnik (22-30, 280 yards, 1 TD, 9 carries, 51 yards, 1 rush TD) pushed the lead back to 14.

With the Eagles driving again, Dylan Lonergan (12-19, 117 yards) was strip sacked at the BC 30 to halt any momentum. Three snaps later, Klubnik dropped a dime in the left corner of the end zone for Bryant Wesco Jr. from 38-yards out, making it 31-10.

“I think the turning point was the strip sack,” said O’Brien. “Because, we had momentum. We were moving the football to make it 24-17…who knows? I’m not saying it would have been a different…I’m just saying to me, that was the turning point.”

Stunningly, on BC’s last possession of the half, the Eagles went for it on 4th-&-6 from their own 43 and turned it over on downs. That allowed the Tigers to use the final 12 seconds to get into field goal range, drilling a 50-yard field goal at the buzzer to make it 34-10 at the half.

“I tried to burn as much time…I was going to use a timeout, tried to take some time off the clock thinking that maybe they couldn’t get it back,” said O’Brien. “Could have handled that better than I did there at the end. Yup. No doubt.”

BC was out-gained 330-170 in the first 30 minutes.

In one of the uglier, yet quicker third quarters you’ll see, neither team scored as BC punted twice, but also had two interceptions from KP Price and Max Tucker, with Tucker’s coming in the end zone.

Charlie Comella recovered a muffed punt deep in Clemson territory, but freshman QB Shaker Reisig – in for Lonergan – was intercepted in the end zone three plays later. The Tigers eventually added a late score in garbage time for the 41-10 final.

Questions and rumors about the future will continue to swirl around until this gets fixed.

With six games still remaining, the Eagles can’t have a divided locker room or things could spiral even more. When asked postgame whether or not they felt like players were still buying into the messaging from the staff, both Lewis Bond and Price said yes.

“I think so. I am. So, I’m trying to lead with that example by doing everything right, doing things the right way, day in and day out” said Bond.

“100%. Coach O’Brien, the rest of the staff, they always on the same page. They relay their messages to us. Me as a leader, us captains, we relay the message to the rest of the team. We all receive it the same exact way,” added Price.

“We believe in them. We trust in them at all times. There never won’t be a time we not going to.”