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Matthias Farley — the fifth-year senior safety and team captain, who received the game ball — recovered the ensuing onside kick to seal the win. "I say this over and over, but it's so hard to win football games," fifth-year senior linebacker and team captain Joe Schmidt said. "It's so hard. "I have no idea what happened in the college football landscape today, but I can guarantee there's a lot that happened today that you didn't think would happen. That's college foot- ball, and that's why people love it. It's hard to win football games, and we're happy that we won today." Notre Dame travels to Stanford in the final game of the regular season Nov. 28, trying to make one final em- phatic bid to be one of the four teams included in this year 's College Foot- ball Playoff. ✦ NOTRE DAME 19, BOSTON COLLEGE 16 Nov. 21, 2015 ✦ Attendance: 38,686 Fenway Park ✦ Boston 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tot. Boston College 0 0 3 13 16 Notre Dame 10 0 6 3 19 FIRST QUARTER BC ND ND Yoon 30-yard field goal 05:59 0 3 Drive: 8 plays 64 yds 3:33 ND Carlisle 10-yard pass from Kizer (Yoon kick) 00:04 0 10 Drive: 6 plays 40 yds 1:56 THIRD QUARTER BC Lichtenberg 43-yard field goal 13:10 3 10 Drive: 4 plays 2 yds 0:09 ND Brown 12-yard pass from Kizer (Kizer pass fail) 01:10 3 16 Drive: 8 plays 73 yds 3:12 FOURTH QUARTER ND Yoon 35-yard field goal 10:35 3 19 Drive: 8 plays 60 yds 3:31 BC Smith 80-yard run (Smith pass fail) 10:17 9 19 Drive: 1 plays 80 yds 0:18 BC Callinan 3-yard pass from Smith (Lichtenberg kick) 00:54 16 19 Drive: 9 plays 86 yds 3:05 BC ND Total First Downs 13 22 Rushing 7 4 Passing 5 15 Penalty 1 3 Rushing Attempts 36 34 Yards Gained Rushing 243 151 Yards Lost Rushing 29 24 Net Yards Rushing 214 127 Net Yards Passing 88 320 Passes Attempted 22 38 Passes Completed 12 20 Had Intercepted 0 3 Percent Completion 54.5% 52.6% Yards Per Attempt 4.0 8.4 Yards Per Completion 7.3 16.0 Total Offensive Plays 58 72 Total Net Yards 302 447 Avg. Gain Per Play 5.2 6.2 Fumbles: No.-Lost 3-1 4-2 Penalties: No.-Yards 9-75 4-31 Punts: No.-Yards 9-350 4-188 Avg. Per Punt 38.9 47.0 Avg. Net Punt 39.3 43.5 Punt Returns: No.-Yards 1--6 3--4 Kickoff Returns: No.-Yards 5-124 3-44 Interception Returns: No.-Yards 3-0 0-0 Fumble Returns: No.-Yards 1-13 0-0 Miscellaneous Yards 0 0 Possession Time 28:52 31:08 Third-Down Conversions 2-13 4-15 Percentage 15.4% 26.7% Fourth-Down Conversions 0-1 0-0 Percentage 0.0% 0.0% Sacks By: No.-Yards 0-0 2-15