Alabama vs. Boston College
Alabama and Boston College have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1942; Boston College leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Boston College 3–1, and Boston College has won the last 3. Share
2031 at Boston College; 2034 at Alabama. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Alabama wins
- 1
- Boston College wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1942
- Longest streak
- 3 Boston College
- Current streak
- 3 Boston College
- Last 10 meetings
- Boston College 3–1
- Most recent
- 1984
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 3 meetings: Alabama 1, Boston College 2; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 9 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Alabama
- 0–1 Alabama’s record at home
- At Boston College
- 2–0 Boston College’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Alabama first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 8, 1984 | 18Boston College 38, 9Alabama 31 | at Alabama | ||
| Nov 25, 1983 | 15Boston College 20, 13Alabama 13 | at Boston College | ||
| Nov 23, 1946 | Boston College 13, Alabama 7 | at Boston College | ||
| Jan 1, 1943 | 7Alabama 37, 1Boston College 21 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.