Boston College Athletics
2002 Football Schedule Announced
January 25, 2002 | Football
Jan. 25, 2002
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The 2002 Boston College football schedule will feature seven home games at Alumni Stadium as the Eagles will meet five teams that played in bowl games last season. The NCAA will allow teams to play 12 regular season games during the 2002 season.
Boston College will open its season with an Aug. 31 home date vs. Connecticut and then will play host to Stanford on Sept. 7. Following an off-week, the BIG EAST Conference opener will be a Sept. 21 game at Miami (Fla.).
The Eagles return home to take on Central Michigan of the Mid-American Conference on Sept. 28 and their next contest will be an ESPN nationally-televised Thursday night game vs. Virginia Tech on Oct. 10.
Following an Oct. 19 home game vs. Navy, the Eagles play three-straight road games against Pittsburgh (Oct. 26), Notre Dame (Nov. 2) and West Virginia (Nov. 9). The regular season wraps up with games vs. Syracuse (Nov. 16), at Temple (Nov. 23) and vs. Rutgers (Nov. 30).
"We believe that the 2002 football schedule will be a very challenging one for our players and coaches and also a very entertaining one for our fans," says Boston College director of athletics Gene DeFilippo. "The BIG EAST will again provide us with very demanding competition and our non-conference slate gives us some interesting matchups against teams from various regions of the country."
Other than the Virginia Tech and Notre Dame (2:30 p.m. EST on NBC, please note this time change as of Jan. 29) games, starting times and television coverage plans are still to be announced.
The five 2001 bowl teams on the schedule are: Stanford (lost to Georgia Tech in the Seattle Bowl), Miami (Fla.) (beat Nebraska in the Rose Bowl), Virginia Tech (lost to Florida State in the Gator Bowl), Pittsburgh (beat North Carolina State in the Tangerine Bowl) and Syracuse (beat Kansas State in the Insight.com Bowl).
Boston College finished the 2001 season with an overall record of 8-4 as the Eagles posted a 20-16 win over Georgia in the Music City Bowl. Along with its win in the 2000 Aloha Bowl over Arizona State, BC is just one of eight schools in the country to win a bowl game in each of the last two seasons.
2002 Boston College Football Schedule Date Opponent Time TV Coverage August 31 CONNECTICUT TBA TBA September 7 STANFORD TBA TBA September 21 *at Miami (Fla.) TBA TBA September 28 CENTRAL MICHIGAN TBA TBA October 10 *VIRGINIA TECH TBA-Night ESPN October 19 NAVY TBA TBA October 26 *at Pittsburgh TBA TBA November 2 at Notre Dame 2:30 p.m. EST NBC November 9 *at West Virginia TBA TBA November 16 *SYRACUSE TBA TBA November 23 *at Temple TBA TBA November 30 *RUTGERS TBA TBA HOME GAMES IN BOLD CAPS * - denotes BIG EAST Conference Game
