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✦ NEWS & NOTES THEY SAID IT "I don't think we can look at it that way. I think we just have to look at the next week. A much as it plagues your mind a little bit, you have to go and you have to play the next week. We've just got to go play, play for each other, and keep working hard." — Boston College junior quarterback Chase Rettig on the possibility of changes within the program due to the team's poor showing this season cess allowed the Notre Dame of‑ fense to forge an identity. Run the ball. Smashmouth. Rely on the line and enjoy the view. Full‑speed ahead. When push came to shove — and it did an awful lot Saturday — the Irish football team put on a different face. And nearly paid the price." — Al Lesar, South Bend Tribune "Eight weeks of an evolution pro‑ Notre Dame complaining this week that Oregon leapfrogged the Irish in the BCS standings Sunday night. No, after nearly throwing it all away Sat‑ urday, the Irish — No. 4 in the BCS and still No. 4 in both major polls — are just happy to still be in the national championship race. Lucky, too." — Mark Lazerus, Chicago Sun‑ Times "You likely won't hear anybody at Senior left tackle Zach Martin and the Irish are bracing for Boston College to put forth its best effort of the season this Saturday. PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA and be ready for the best football that those guys can give us. We're not going to see the same team we saw on film against other teams. They're going to come in, and they're going to play harder than they have all season." — Notre Dame senior tackle Zack Martin "Especially with us being undefeated, people want our number. … We have to come in games, I think about that Stanford game where they could have lost on the last play of the game. You want the ball in [Everett Golson's] hands at the end of the game. He made plays, he continued plays and he found a way to get it done. I think Notre Dame is a team of destiny. You can't control your destiny, but with their luck right now they are unbeliev‑ able." — Mike Belotti, ESPN analyst "That has been Notre Dame's M.O. It's the luck of the Irish. There are two or three ✦ PAGE 16