# I Love Boston College or Notre Dame goes down **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032 "2002-11-02T23:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/1 "2002-11-02T23:21:28Z")
Any irish fans here? Hope you enjoed being (almost) on top while it lasted…better luck next year. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/2 "2002-11-02T23:50:12Z")
Ah, I perceive that you speak of an athletic contest of some kind. [http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021102-062512-2757r](http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021102-062512-2757r) > [@](#): > > Boston Col. 14, Notre Dame 7 > From the Sports Desk > Published 11/2/2002 6:31 PM > > SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 2 (UPI) – For the second time in nine years, Boston College ended Notre Dame’s hopes for an undefeated season a and national championship Saturday, handing Tyrone Willingham his first loss as Fighting Irish coach, 14-7. ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/3 "2002-11-02T23:58:03Z")
You perceive correctly 🙂 There is not a single college that I hate as much as Notre Dame. To see them go down again to BC just warms my heart. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/4 "2002-11-03T05:15:24Z")
Subway alumnus here. Am I surprised this happened? Is ANY Notre Dame fan really surprised? Nah! Notre Dame has a PRETTY good team, not a great one, and they’ve needed a few lucky breaks to win some close ones. Sooner or later, they were bound to lose one… maybe two or three, before it’s over. Fact remains, Tyrone WIllingham has proven that he’s the guy the Irish SHOULD have hired in the first place (George O’Leary’s falsified resume was a lucky break for Notre Dame). He’s had a mediocre team playing over its head for most of the season, which has enabled them to WIN a lot of the close games they’d been losing over the past few years. Notre Dame is not an elite team now, but Willingham has them back in the spotlight, which means he’s going to be able to attract many more of the top recruits, who’d been shunning South Bend in recent years. A few years down the road, they’re going to be a powerhouse again. NOBODY expected the Irish to go all the way this year. This was Willingham’s first season, and most of us would have been delighted if he went 8-3 or 7-4 and got the Irish to a respectable, mid-level bowl. He’s already achieved at LEAST that much. I expect they’ll be perennial contenders again before you know it. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/5 "2002-11-03T07:10:57Z")
Let’s also be sure to send out our warmest feelings towards the Pittsburgh Panthers for once again putting a certain pretender in its place. Indeed, I think I’ll make a VCR tape consisting of the Pittsburgh locker room victory song repeating over and over and over again. And send it to my Hokie brother. As for the Irish, perhaps they should put away the green jerseys for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Pythagoras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@Pythagoras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagoras)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/6 "2002-11-03T07:17:51Z")
**VA Tech** lost ☹ Welp, I guess thats what happens when we play like crap. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-boston-college-or-notre-dame-goes-down/135032/7 "2002-11-03T08:40:33Z")
U of M thumped Michigan State in their biggest victory since _1947_. Good thing I didn’t take up a friend’s offer to watch the game at her house in Ann Arbor. I might be sitting in a jail cell right now, my green and white clothing stained with Wolverine blood. 🙂