Boston College vs. Miami

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Hail Flutie1984: Boston College 47, Miami 45Doug Flutie’s last-second pass to Gerard Phelan beat defending champion Miami 47–⁠45.
2. Boston College’s biggest win2007: Boston College 28, Miami 14by 14 points
3. Miami’s biggest win2000: Miami 52, Boston College 6by 46 points
4. Upset2011: Boston College 24, Miami 17Boston College had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown1993: Miami 23, Boston College 7No. 3 Miami at No. 20 Boston College
6. Ranked showdown1994: Miami 23, Boston College 7No. 25 Boston College at No. 5 Miami

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Boston College’s side (Holovak 1–⁠2 against Gustafson). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1955 · Evening star, Nov 5, 1955

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 11, 1956

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  1960 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 29, 1960

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Boston College vs. Syracuse59 meetings, Boston College 25–⁠34
• Boston College vs. Holy Cross55 meetings, Boston College 36–⁠19
• Boston College vs. Villanova42 meetings, Boston College 27–⁠14–⁠1
• Boston College vs. Army39 meetings, Boston College 26–⁠13
• Miami vs. Florida State71 meetings, Miami 38–⁠33
• Miami vs. Florida58 meetings, Miami 31–⁠27
• Miami vs. Pittsburgh43 meetings, Miami 30–⁠12–⁠1
• Miami vs. Virginia Tech42 meetings, Miami 27–⁠15