TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Boston College’s shot at a reaching bowl game is still realistic, but after another blowout loss to an Atlantic Coast Conference rival, the monstrous gap between the Eagles and their competition in the ACC couldn’t be more apparent.

BC went into Doak Campbell Stadium Friday night under the lights in Tallahassee and got thumped, 45-7.

The Eagles lost by 30 or more points for the fourth time this season. The program had four 30-point losses from 1999 to 2015.

For BC coach Steve Addazio, the magnitude of the loss made no differnece.

“A loss is a loss,’’ Addazio said.

But Eagles quarterback Patrick Towles made it clear that looking at lopsided scoreboards so many times this season has taken its toll.

“It’s tougher losing games like this,’’ Towles said. “Losing the game like we did at Georgia Tech or Syracuse, those were close ones. You can kind of sometimes feel good about how you played in those football games, but in these, we feel this one hard.

An Eagles offense that came in as the worst in the conference both in scoring and yardage narrowly avoided being shut out for the second time this season. They’ve been shut out four times the past two years. The program went 60 games from 2010-14 without being held scoreless.

Towles completed just 3 of his 11 pass attempts for 29 yards, the Eagles combined for 96 rushing yards, and 39 of them came on a carry by Myles Willis in the first quarter. The 146 yards of offense the Eagles mustered was their second-lowest total of the season, and when they looked around for options, they had none.

“What you really saw was, “Where were we going with that ball on offense when it was really hard?’’ Addazio said. “Where were we going? Who was going to make a play? Where were we going? It’s evident. And it’s got to be from everybody.’’

Meanwhile, the Seminoles were flush with playmakers.

FSU’s redshirt freshman quarterback Deondre Francois picked apart BC’s secondary, completing 16 of 24 passes for 183 yards and three touchdowns before leaving the game with a shoulder contusion late in the third quarter.

Running back Dalvin Cook racked up 108 rushing yards and touchdown. The performance gave him 3,937 yards for his career, leaving him 19 yards shy of passing Warrick Dunn for the school record.

For much of the season, slow starts had been an issue for the Seminoles. Opponents outscored them, 31-3, in the first quarter over their past five games.

Not against the Eagles.

On the opening drive, Francois marched the Seminoles 80 yards in nine plays, completing six of his first seven passes, capping it with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Auden Tate to put FSU up, 7-0.

Two drives later, Francois engineered a 10-play, 71-yard scoring drive, finding Nyqwan Murray. A 19-yard dash by Cook with 2:50 left in the second quarter out the Seminoles up, 21-0, going into halftime.

The rest of the night felt like a formality.

The Eagles didn’t get on the board until 3:21 left in the game, when sophomore running back Richard Wilson punched in a 1-yard run.

“Listen, there’s no doubt about who we played and the talent level. That’s a very, very talented football team,’’ Addazio said. “We have a hard time right now pushing back adversity. When momentum doesn’t come naturally, we have a hard time creating it. That’s been our issue.

“When we get in these kinds of games, against these caliber of teams that are playing at a high level right now, we have a hard time creating that momentum right now. That’s where we are. And we’ve got to learn how to do that. It shows up in these kinds of games. Against the level of teams that we’re playing against, it shows up. And that’s when it looks like it gets ugly.’’

Despite losing for the fourth time in five games — by a combined margin of 137 points — the Eagles can still become bowl eligible with a win over UConn at Chestnut Hill next week and another in their season finale against Wake Forest Nov. 26.

The Eagles’ losses this season may say they’re a long way from respectability, but they’re not far from accomplishing the goal of returning to a bowl game.

“Yeah, it [stinks] to lose, but we all know what’s ahead of us,’’ Harold Landry said.

“Trying to get bowl eligibility, we’ve got to quickly put this one behind us, watch the film, gotta swallow it and get over it because we’ve got to go and beat UConn.’’

“Yeah, we wish we would’ve played better in the games that we lost by points like that. But it’s in the past and we’ve just got to focus on what’s ahead.’’

But even Addazio couldn’t deny the obvious.

“We’ve got to play better than we did,’’ he said.

Julian Benbow can be reached at jbenbow@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @julianbenbow.