One Game Separates Rutgers From B.C.S. Bid
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The stakes are high and the challenge is immense for Rutgers Saturday night when they play West Virginia. A victory will mean a conference championship and a likely trip to the Orange Bowl.
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Long before the college football season started, followers of Boston College and West Virginia were eyeing Nov. 13 on their schedules. With Miami and Virginia Tech gone to the Atlantic Coast Conference, it seemed likely that the battle for the Big East title, and a trip to a BCS bowl, would be contested between the Mountaineers and Eagles, 1-2, respectively, ...
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Down, 20-7, the Boston College players got together at halftime yesterday and decided they didn&#39;t want to go down quietly, see their three-game winning streak against Notre
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A year ago, Boston College coach Tom O'Brien described his team's 35-25 victory at Rutgers as &quot;the greatest gut-check I've ever been around,&quot; after the Eagles rallied from a 22-13 halftime deficit to earn their all-important sixth win of the season, making them bowl eligible.
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Fundamentals. Basics. Square One. The Boston College football team, after improving to 4-1 in Saturday's 22-0 shutout of Division 1-AA Maine, will use its upcoming week off to revisit those things before resuming action Oct. 12 against Atlantic Coast Conference foe Virginia Tech in a Thursday night game at Alumni Stadium.
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With Rutgers leading Buffalo, 21-0, after the first quarter, the question for the crowd of 43,091 Thursday became which Scarlet Knights player would wow the fans more.
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It was a game Boston College needed to win - desperately. That's hardly surprising for a team with a six-game losing streak.
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Points: A Big East doubleheader bookends Thanksgiving Day. The Huskies look to make themselves more attractive to bowl scouts, and Rutgers hopes to end a once-promising campaign on a high note.
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After a weekend in which Rutgers beat South Florida and Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati, the Big East standings are a jumble.
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No joke. Rutgers is ranked. The Scarlet Knights, long a college football laughingstock, moved Sunday into The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in 30 years.
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The play was called "Rattler." Boston College's winning touchdown Thursday night before a raucous and wet crowd at Lane Stadium will go down as perhaps the biggest play in school history since Doug Flutie's "Miracle in Miami" in 1984.
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Rutgers players don't need a new poll to tell them how good they are after beating three Top 10 teams in eight days, including No. 1 LSU.
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They have had a week off to contemplate their new status, that of a team with a blemish on its record. For the Boston College men's basketball team, that is heady stuff indeed as the Eagles resume play tonight at Conte Forum against Rutgers a week after their quest for a perfect season ended with a 68-65 loss at Notre ...
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Last night, in one of the underdog matches of the Super 8, it was Weymouth vs. Malden Catholic. Public vs. parochial. David vs. Goliath.
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The physical and mental well-being of No. 15 Rutgers will be put to a test Saturday when it faces what should be an overmatched Syracuse team.
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Though it is early, the B.C.S. revisions have not quite worked out as planned. Southern California and Miami were ranked as the top two teams.
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What looks good on paper hasn't been tested through a season yet, so Bruce Crowder said he'll reserve judgment. He wasn't talking about rosters; he was talking about a commitment from college hockey authorities to rid the game of all the clutching and grabbing, the pinning, and tugging.