On the 39th anniversary of Doug Flutie’s game-winning Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan in Miami, Boston College didn’t have a prayer of knocking off the Hurricanes on Saturday at Alumni Stadium.

Miami piled up 532 yards of total offense and rolled to a 45-20 victory over BC on Senior Day at the Heights. BC lost its third straight to finish 6-6 and 3-5 in the ACC.

“They are a talented group and I thought they played well,” said BC head coach Jeff Hafley. “We had a chance to make some plays on defense but they made some plays and we didn’t. I’m proud of the way the guys fought in the second half.”

The Eagles’ dismal showing against the Hurricanes likely cost them a trip to the Pinstripe Bowl against Rutgers or Maryland. The game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., is a third tier ACC bowl that is aligned exclusively with the Big Ten.

The bottom tier bowls available to BC are the Wasabi Fenway Bowl at Fenway Park on Dec. 28 against an opponent from the AAC, possibly SMU, Memphis or Texas San Antonio.

The Military Bowl is the other six-win bowl match between the ACC and the ACC to be played on Dec. 27 at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md.  The primary benefit to obtaining a bowl bid is the additional 15 days of practice each team is awarded by the NCAA.

“I want to get healthy, we have to get some guys back,” said Hafley. “The practices are just as important as the bowl game and it is a good amount of practices to really just improve and get better.

“We can get some guys ready to go and get some new guys in the bowl game. The practices are critical wherever we go and whoever we play we’ve got to get a win.”

Hurricanes quarterback Tyler Van Dyke was given time to set up in the pocket and he dissected the Eagles secondary with routine accuracy. The junior competed 23-of-36 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions and zero sacks allowed. BC quarterback Thomas Castellanos completed 15 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown. He added 130 rushing yards and a touchdown.

“We have got to be better at pressure and in the game of football you’ve got to get the quarterback on the ground,” said BC junior defensive end Neto Okpala.

Boston College went up 7-0 on the opening drive of the game that went 75 yards on 10 plays. Castellanos rushed for 25 and completed a 40-yard pass to Dino Tomlin to the Miami 10-yard line. Tailback Kye Robichaux went over the top on a fourth and one for his seventh TD of the season.

The Canes responded with a methodical 67-yard drive on 15 plays as Miami converted on third down twice and once on fourth in the red zone. Freshman tailback Mark Fletcher scored on a dive inside the one to tie the game 7-7 with 2:29 to play in the first.

The Canes took advantage of favorable field position to go up 14-7 at 12:49 of the second. Junior tailback Henry Parish reversed direction at the line and sprinted 15 yards for his fifth of the season.

“I thought we started the game off pretty well but in the second quarter we didn’t play very well and we had three straight three and outs,” Hafley said.

Miami manufactured a 10-play, 69-yard scoring drive that made it 21-7 with 4:00 to play in the half. Van Dyke completed a 24-yard pass to Xavier Restrepo on a fourth and eight. Van Dyke completed the trip with and eight-yard toss to wide receiver Colbie Young for his fifth of the season.

Van Dyke completed 3-of-4 passes for 65 yards on the Canes’ closing drive of the half that made it 28-7 at the half. Parrish scored his second of the half on a 2-yard plunge with 22 seconds to play.