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the season where other teams are going to lose, and it's going to help our probability to move up," Jackson said. "We just don't try to focus on it too much. We keep our eyes and our heads all focused on the game ahead. If it plays out in the end, it plays out in the end. As of right now, we're focused on Wake Forest." left Alumni Stadium with an extra bulge in his backpack Saturday night. The outside line- backer, who ended Bos- ton College's last drive with the football in his arms, was awarded the game ball permanently during a postgame locker room celebration, and he had no plans of letting it go. Shembo's fumble re- Junior Prince Shembo QUARTERBACKS CHASING Three of Notre Dame's five sacks at Boston College were made by junior Cat linebacker Prince Shembo, who took advantage of the get to the quarterback, and he'd throw the ball every time or throw it out of bounds. This guy wanted to hold it. So I was like. 'All right, cool, it's about time.'" Boston College had protection the Eagles emphasized on sophomore end Stephon Tuitt. PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA on the way they were protecting." Boston College drove covery at midfield with 12 seconds left in the contest capped an out- ing in which four of his five tackles were behind the line of scrimmage, and three of them were sacks. "I am just chasing seen enough Notre Dame game film to know to pay extra at- tention to sophomore defensive end Stephon Tuitt. The Eagles slid ex- tra protection his way all night, which left Shembo in one-on-one match- ups with linemen who couldn't keep up. "I don't want to take quarterbacks," Shembo said. "In past weeks I'd anything away from Prince," head coach Brian Kelly said. "He played great football tonight, but the way it went was that somebody else had to step up based down to the 8-yard line during the first quarter and threatened to tie the game at seven before Shembo introduced him- self to Chase Rettig. Shembo dropped the Boston College quarter- back for an eight-yard loss on third down, forc- ing a field goal and ex- tinguishing the Eagles' best chance of the night for a touchdown. He got to him twice more dur- ing the game, the last one a 13-yard loss two plays before he fell on the fumble. The play before his f irst sack, Shembo sniffed out one of Bos- ton College's many screen plays and made