ACC reveals kickoff time, TV info for Notre Dame at Boston College
No. 12 Notre Dame has a start time for its Week 10 matchup at Boston College. The Irish and Eagles will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET on Nov. 1 at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Mass., the Atlantic Coast Conference revealed on its website late Saturday night.
The game will be televised on ESPN, with announcers to be determined.
Notre Dame leads the all-time series with Boston College 17-9, with a vacated win in 2012. Most recently, the Irish defeated the Eagles 44-0 on Nov. 19, 2022 in snowy South Bend. Including that vacated win, Notre Dame has a nine-game winning streak against Boston College; the Eagles last defeated the Irish in 2008.
The 2025 edition of this game might look similar to the 2022 edition, because Boston College (1-7, 0-5 ACC) is an absolutely dreadful football team right now.
The Eagles are losers of seven in a row, most recently falling to No. 19 Louisville on Saturday. Boston College has not been the victim of a difficult schedule, either; its losing streak includes gut punches against Michigan State, Stanford, California and UConn. After a promising start under second-year head coach Bill O’Brien (7-6 in 2024), the Eagles nose dived in Year 2.
To start, Boston College cannot run the ball. The Eagles rank 127th nationally in both rushing yards per game and rushing yards per carry, out of 136 FBS teams. They also recently benched their quarterback; Alabama transfer Dylan Lonergan is out and redshirt senior Grayson James, who began his career at FIU but started for Boston College late in 2024, is in.
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Defense is also a problem for the Eagles, who rank 126th in points allowed per game at 34.4. They have not been noticeably worse at defending either the run or pass (105th and 98th, respectively, in opponent yards per carry and opponent yards per pass attempt), but they’re bad enough at both to struggle to stop quality opponents.
The last time Boston College allowed fewer than 38 points in a game was Sept. 27, when it lost 28-24 to California. Twenty-eight is the fewest the Eagles have allowed to any FBS opponent.
That’s bad news against a Notre Dame team that has only lost once after a bye week in the Marcus Freeman era (Sept. 13 vs. Texas A&M). The Irish will enter Chestnut Hill as winners of 5 in a row, coming in at 5-2 and in position to earn a College Football Playoff spot if they win out in November.
BetMGM has not released a line for the game yet, but competing sports books have Notre Dame as a 29.5-point favorite.