My first FBS football game was on a cold Massachusetts night in November. Notre Dame was playing at Boston College, and I got to go with a bunch of BC fans that my family knew who had season tickets. They made me wear Boston College clothes because they provided the ticket, but I wore my Jimmy Clausen jersey underneath to stay loyal.
Clausen and Charlie Weis rewarded me with a 17-0 Notre Dame loss.
Maybe it’s that my first major college football game was the Notre Dame-Boston College game, maybe it’s because I’m from Massachusetts, maybe it’s because these are the only two Catholic FBS schools, or maybe it’s something else.