Nov 19 | Boston College

[Jason Pham]

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<br><strong>Boston College Eagles at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame Stadium (Notre Dame, IN)
Saturday, November 19, 2011
4:00 PM EST

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[Riddickulous]

Sophomore quarterback Chase Rettig threw four interceptions in BC's scrimmage Wednesday (28 attempts).

 

[Rhode Irish]

BC getting killed by a Persa-less Northwestern. BC is not good. Game is on ESPNU.

 

[jakerbluegold]

Hopefully we can dismantle them this year like we haven't in a long time. Sick of those fargin iceholes.

 

[BGIF]

BC (0-2) lost to UCF 30-3.

Luke Kuechly is The Force on Defense leading the nation with 17.5 Tackles/game. Kevin Pierre Louis is making 11.5 Tackles/game for 13th in the nation. But it doesn't seem to any support the two of them combined have made 58 tackles. BC's Rushing D is 110th while their Total D is 95, and the Scoring D is 69th.

It's worse on the Offensive side without Montel Harris out BC's Rushing Offense is 106th, Total Offense 101st, Scoring Offense 110. Some familiar names to recruitniks, QB Chase Rettig has a QB Eff Rating of 94.57 and WR Bobby Swigert leads the team with 4 catches a game good for 53.5 yds/game. If Bobby's uncle is lurking maybe he'll give us an update.


BC is a 7 pt fav in Week 3 and needs a victory badly. Div 1AA UMass should be a win the following week. After that Wake Forest and NCS are the only possibles.

 

[Riddickulous]

Lost to Duke, 20-19.

 

[Riddickulous]

This looks like the easiest win of the season, but knowing our quality of play against BC I'm the slightest bit nervous.

 

[Irish Man3]

This is just not a good football team. After what I saw last year against Boston College, I am not worried at all. I say we put up 30+ and hold them to less than 10.

 

[Buster Bluth]

I still like my 50-0 guesstimate.

 

[Who'saWildManNow]

I still like my 50-0 guesstimate.

It's gonna be Salvis breakout game! 2 pick sixes. :awesomewo

 

[BeauBenken]

It's still BC. I won't count them out until the game is over. In my short life I've seen too many games we should have won but didn't.

That being said, we should destroy them.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

“@schadjoe: BC RB Montel Harris (knee) out for season”

 

[NDPhilly]

“@schadjoe: BC RB Montel Harris (knee) out for season”

Could it get any worse for them?

 

[Buster Bluth]

“@schadjoe: BC RB Montel Harris (knee) out for season”

Harris is a stud, that is unfortunately.

If there is an opportunity for a shutout this season, this is the game.

 

[BeauBenken]

“@schadjoe: BC RB Montel Harris (knee) out for season”

Glad I got him off my fantasy team. I hope he recovers well though. He's a good player.

 

[PatsandBostonfan1975]

Glad I got him off my fantasy team. I hope he recovers well though. He's a good player.

Very good looks like BC is gonna be a Bye week this year.

 

[Buster Bluth]

So I'm going to this game with a few of my buddies and we're going to stay at a former classmate of ours who is a grad student for the weekend. I just read that Notre Dame has a basketball game the Friday night against the mighty Delaware State Hornets so I'm thinking about checking this out as well.

I've never been to a basketball game at Notre Dame. Are tickets hard to get? I can't imagine there would be a ton of demand for a game against Delaware State...but it is the night before a football game.

How would one best go about getting tickets?

EDIT: Considering it's the night of Notre Dame vs Boston College in hockey, which will be huge, I would imagine the tickets would almost be free.

 

[BleedBlueGold]

I have two tickets for this game that I need to get rid of. Turns out my fiance and I can't make the trip to South Bend.

Section 18, Row 18, Seats 26-27

Lower Level South Endzone

PM me if you're interested in buying them.

Thanks.

 

[ndyeater]

There on ESPN right now vs Florida State....not looking too good right now

 

[irishff1014]

Yikes Florida State getting ready to go up 28-0 with over min left in the 2nd quarter. And i don't think that FSU's offense is as good as ours. If we don't turn the ball over we might see another Air Force type performance. 6 touchdowns in the first half.

 

[D-BOE34]

We should do more than man handle BC. I think we can have them at several 3 and outs to start the game. I can see us at a 28-0 lead in first!

 

[Anchorman]

BC only has two seniors starting, one on the O Line another at safety. Shouldn't be a tough game this year but a team to watch in the future.

 

[Vernon98]

I still like my 50-0 guesstimate.

 

[tripsdad]

Looks like they're playing pretty well against NCSU. Just heard from the radio that there are only about 30K people (stadium capacity = 44.5) at this game. I would've thought BC fans were more loyal than that...

 

[BGIF]

Sagarin's new rankings are up. His Predictor Model makes ND 27-1/2 pt favorite over BC in South Bend.

Sagarin's Elo Chess Ranking which the BCS uses (no MOV) has ND #33.
His Predictor which include MOV has ND #12.
His Ranking Model is roughly an average of those two and has ND at #25.

ND's Strength of Schedule is 25th toughest.

 

[BGIF]

ND v BC NCAA Stats

ND v BC NCAA Stats

ND Rank	Actual	Category      .	BC Rank	Actual
41	177.4	Rushing Offense	81	133.8
37	258.9	Passing Offense	105	164.2
34	436.3	Total Offense	112	298.0
29	33.6	Scoring Offense	113	18.0
57	148.9	Rushing Defense	62	153.0
57	127.6	Pass Ef Defense	53	125.6
36	350.6	Total Defense	69	394.8
27	20.9	Scoring Defense	56	24.9
100	34.3	Net Punting	67	36.3
120	0.3	Punt Returns	112	3.6
22	24.0	Kickoff Returns	89	20.1
115	-1.1	Turnover Margin	107	-0.8
33	201.7	Pass Defense	84	241.8
46	138.2	Passing Eff O	109	107.7
59	1.9	Sacks       .	116	0.9
74	5.3	TFLs        .	T-92	4.8
10	0.8	Sacks Allowed	67	2.1

 

[yankeehater]

ND opened minus 24

 

[GreatGolson]

coming off a big win, week before the game of our season, can't overlook BC. Even though its not like they've ever beat us in any big games...

 

[NDPhilly]

BCs Defense is a little better than Maryland's but there Offense is much worse.

ND 38 BC 10

 

[Riddickulous]

Hopefully we're leading big in the second half and Dayne Crist gets to lead a couple scoring drives as a last hurrah.