Chestnut Hill, Mass. -- Dino Babers went through the schedule with his team in the preseason, down the line, opponent by opponent.
He drew a big circle around the school at the end of the 12-game slate: Boston College, a team that humiliated a wounded Syracuse football team by 28 points in the final game of the previous season.
This, Babers told his players, would be the most physical game of the 2018 season, and there was never a doubt his players remembered that, all these months later, in the wake of a 42-21 victory here at Alumni Stadium.