Neither stadia nor uniforms cause teams to win or lose football games, but the Irish faithful spent much of Saturday night seeking scapegoats for their team’s lackluster performance against unranked Boston College. In perhaps the ugliest performance of the season, Notre Dame (4 BCS) was lucky to survive a gritty effort from their little cousins in Chestnut Hill. What meaning the game will ultimately have remains to be seen, as next Saturday’s tilt at eleventh-ranked Stanford assumes all of the important for Notre Dame’s BCS hopes.
In the seventh iteration of the “Shamrock Series,” Notre Dame brought its Catholic carnival to Boston, where it took over the town and transformed Fenway Park from baseball field to gridiron.