CHESTNUT HILL – Boston College football quarterback Dylan Lonergan leads the ACC in several significant passing categories.

But that’s not the only direction head coach Bill O’Brien wants to steer his offense.

O’Brien is intent on establishing a sustained ground attack when the Eagles begin their ACC campaign on Saturday night (10:30 p.m.) against the Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California.

“We want to be a balanced offense,” O’Brien said. “We feel really good about our passing game so far in the last two games. But we really need to be more balanced on offense, no doubt.

“It (should be) 50-50. First and second down, you want to be balanced. We strive to be balanced but we also do what we feel we need to do to win the game. In the last game, we had to throw th

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