Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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BC GAME NOTES three. The news of No. 1 DOWN GOES ALABAMA And then there were Alabama's 29-24 loss to Texas A&M reached the Notre Dame locker room prior to kickoff Saturday night. It filtered in through Twitter feeds and cell phones. The coaches caught wind when they walked past a television on their way out to the field for warm-ups. "We saw there was BY DAN MURPHY AND WES MORGAN a loss at the top," head coach Brian Kelly said. That's all Kelly said, though. He didn't bring RED ZONE EFFICIENCY (INSIDE 20-YARD LINE) Notre Dame 3 BC Poss. TD FG Score 1 0 1 3 0 Boston College 3rd-Down Conversions 4th-Down Conversions Avg. Field Position Time of Possession Notre Dame 3rd-Down Conversions 4th-Down Conversions Avg. Field Position Time of Possession No 0 0 Junior cornerback Bennett Jackson led the Irish in tackles with eight (seven solo), and also broke up two passes that almost resulted in interceptions and touchdown returns. it up with his team be- fore or after its win over Boston College, and didn't have plans to discuss it later either. He felt no need to ex- plain to his team that the Aggies had just at least cracked open BC-18 1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. 5:39 3-3 0-0 BC-25 12:27 2:33 0-1 0-0 ND-5 ND-14 5-5 0-0 BC-21 7:23 7:37 4-5 0-1 ND-37 2-3 0-0 BC-27 6:54 8:06 2-5 0-1 ND-39 1-3 0-0 PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA the window of opportu- nity for a national cham- pionship bid. Nor did he think it necessary to use the game as a caution- ary tale for what could become of their own un- defeated season if they lose focus. NOTRE DAME VS. BC QUARTER-BY-QUARTER COMPARISON 1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. 9:21 2-4 0-0 BC-22 1st Half 2nd Half Final 18:06 8-8 0-0 BC-25 14:17 15:43 6-10 0-2 ND-11 ND-38 ND-29 3-6 0-0 11-14 0-0 1st Half 2nd Half Final 11:54 2-5 0-0 BC-23 32:23 27:37 8-15 0-2