Boston College Eagles

ACCChestnut Hill, MAAlumni Stadium (Chestnut Hill, MA)

2026: 3–⁠3 (1–⁠2 ACC). Last: beat Pittsburgh 27–⁠21 at home. Next: at Georgia Tech, Saturday, Oct 24, 3:30 p.m. ET.

  1. L 15–⁠34at Cincinnati
  2. W 28–⁠21Rutgers
  3. W 22–⁠16Maine
  4. L 14–⁠21Virginia Tech
  5. L 16–⁠25at No. 21 SMU
  6. W 27–⁠21Pittsburgh
  7. Oct 24at Georgia Tech
  8. Oct 31at Duke
  9. Nov 7Florida State
  10. Nov 14at Notre Dame
  11. Nov 21Syracuse
  12. Nov 28at Miami
  • Outfitted by New Balance
  • Live mascot: Welles

Boston College has played football since at least 1893 and is 557–⁠474–⁠16 in the 1,047 games on record. Boston College claims one national championship (1940). Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 5, in 1984. They have won one Big East Conference title (2004), counting shared titles. Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy here in 1984. Since 1940, the NFL Draft has taken 140 players from here in its first seven rounds, 22 of them in the first round. The AFL draft also took four players from here. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 8 players and 3 coaches from Boston College. Tom O’Brien (1997–⁠2006) won more games here than any other coach: 75. The most-played rival is Syracuse: 59 meetings, Syracuse leads 33–⁠25 (one Syracuse win vacated). This season, under Bill O’Brien, they’re 3–⁠3.

Résumé

All-time record
703–⁠541–⁠37 official; 557–⁠474–⁠16 on file; how we count
Postseason
15–⁠14 matches the official bowl record
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
1 of 126 ranked
Elo now
1445 100th of 138 FBS
Computer rankings
Massey No. 73 · Composite No. 104 in FBS, Oct 17; up 9 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
Best season by Elo
1984 rated 1719
Conference titles
1 last in 2004
Seasons
116 since 1893, 1,047 games

Identity

Fight song
For Boston
Student section
SuperFans
Band
Boston College Marching Band since 1919, 220 members

2026 season 3–⁠3

RosterFull 2026 season
DateOpponentResultElo
Sep 5atCincinnatiL 15–⁠3434%
Sep 11vsRutgersW 28–⁠2155%
Sep 19vsMaineW 22–⁠1677%
Sep 26vsVirginia TechL 14–⁠2149%
Oct 3at21SMUL 16–⁠2517%
Oct 17vsPittsburghW 27–⁠2135%
Oct 24atGeorgia TechPreview35%
Oct 31atDukePreview23%
Nov 7vsFlorida StatePreview51%
Nov 14atNotre DamePreview11%
Nov 21vsSyracusePreview63%
Nov 28atMiamiPreview10%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Boston College’s Elo through 2026: 1438 going into the opener, 1445 after the latest game.140014251450Elo 1438 going in; lost to Cincinnati 34–15Elo 1419 going in; beat Rutgers 28–21Elo 1437 going in; beat Maine 22–16Elo 1445 going in; lost to Virginia Tech 21–14Elo 1425 going in; lost to SMU 25–16Elo 1418 going in; beat Pittsburgh 27–21Now: Elo 1445 after the latest game1445
Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

Future schedule

2027–⁠35
20274 games: 3 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20284 games: 2 home, 2 away, non-conference only
20292 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20303 games: 3 home, non-conference only
20312 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20331 game: 1 home, non-conference only
20341 game: 1 away, non-conference only
20352 games: 2 away, non-conference only

Boston College’s announced games beyond the seasons on our schedule, the next 8 seasons (1 more listed), as its Wikipedia article lists them (announced schedules as of July 31, 2025). Schedules change; a season shows only the games named so far, and many articles list non-conference games only. Future schedules: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

On the 2026 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Boston College.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Around the program

Apparel
New Balance · Official source
Mascot
Baldwin the Eagle · Official source
Live mascot
Welles (bald eagle) · Official source
Student section
SuperFans · Official source
Athletic director
Blake James · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

The apparel deal

New Balance, June 2021 through 2031. 10 years, $45M. Covers 30 of 31 sports. Football's outfitter was announced separately.

  • SportsLogos.Net, Apr 13, 2021: 30 of 31 sports from June 1, 2021, 10 years, $45M
  • FootballScoop, Apr 13, 2021: Football left out; its supplier to be announced later

Before: Under Armour, 2009 through 2021.

Apparel deals: Field Drip. Terms as the outlets reported them; checked Oct 3, 2026.

Program strength since 1893

Best seasons ever
Boston College end-of-season Elo from 1893 to 2026, best in 1984 at 1719.130015001700190019001920194019601980200020201984 peak: Elo 1719
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

More coverage

Found through the GDELT Project, which indexes news sites worldwide. Each link opens the story on the outlet’s own site; each picture is that outlet’s own preview of its story, shown from its site and credited to it.

Podcasts

Found through Podcast Index, the open podcast directory. Each link opens the episode’s page.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Bill O’Brien2024–⁠202612–⁠19
Jeff Hafley2020–⁠202322–⁠26
Rich Gunnell20190–⁠1
Steve Addazio2013–⁠201944–⁠44
Frank Spaziani2006–⁠201222–⁠29
Jeff Jagodzinski2007–⁠200820–⁠8
Tom O’Brien1997–⁠200675–⁠45
Dan Henning1994–⁠199616–⁠19–⁠1
Tom Coughlin1991–⁠199321–⁠13–⁠1
Jack Bicknell1981–⁠199059–⁠55–⁠1
Ed Chlebek1978–⁠198012–⁠21
Joseph Yukica1968–⁠197768–⁠37
Jim Miller1962–⁠196734–⁠24
Ernest Hefferle1960–⁠19617–⁠12–⁠1
Mike Holovak1951–⁠195949–⁠29–⁠3
Denny Myers1941–⁠195035–⁠27–⁠4
Moody Sarno1944–⁠19457–⁠7
Frank Leahy1939–⁠194020–⁠2
Gilmour Dobie1936–⁠193812–⁠6–⁠4
Joe McKenney1928–⁠19349–⁠13–⁠1
D. Leo Daley19270–⁠2
Frank Cavanaugh1919–⁠19258–⁠6
Frank Morrissey19180–⁠1
Charles Brickley1916–⁠19170–⁠3
Arthur White19020–⁠9
John Dunlop1897–⁠19014–⁠12
Frank Carney18960–⁠1
Joseph Lawless18950–⁠1
Joseph Drum18930–⁠1

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesBC record
Syracuse5925–⁠33 †
Holy Cross5536–⁠19
Villanova4227–⁠14–⁠1
Army3926–⁠13
Temple3930–⁠7–⁠2
Pittsburgh3617–⁠19
Virginia Tech3411–⁠23
West Virginia3311–⁠21–⁠1

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.

Rivals the program names: Notre Dame, Syracuse, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Holy Cross.

Every opponent (138)

Every program Boston College has played, A to Z, with Boston College’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.

Conference titles

1, counting shared titles
Big East Conference 1
2004 (shared)
ACC Atlantic 3
2005 (tied), 2007, 2008 (tied)

As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.

Conferences

  1. Independent 1892–⁠1990
  2. Big East 1991–⁠2004
  3. ACC since 2005
  • 1991Joined the Big East from independence in football. Source
  • 2005Joined the ACC from the Big East. Source

Boston College’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

National award winners

All awards
2024Donovan Ezeiruaku DEHendricks
2013Andre Williams RBDoak Walker
2011Luke Kuechly LBLombardi, Nagurski, Butkus
2007Matt Ryan QBUnitas Golden Arm, Manning
1985Mike Ruth DTOutland
1984Doug Flutie QBHeisman, Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O’Brien

Consensus All-Americans 14

2024Donovan Ezeiruaku DL
2013Andre Williams RB
2011Luke Kuechly LB
2010Luke Kuechly LB
2007Jamie Silva S
2001William Green RB
1998Mike Cloud RB
1994Pete Mitchell TE
1985Mike Ruth DT
1984Doug Flutie QB
1984Tony Thurman DB
1942Mike Holovak FB
1940Gene Goodreault E
1920Luke Urban E

Led the nation 5

2013Andre Williams rushing yards (2,177 yds)
1984Doug Flutie passer rating (152.9), total offense (4,013 yds)
1974Keith Barnette rushing touchdowns (22 TD), points (134 pts)
1968Fred Willis yards per carry (7.3)
1962Terry Baker passing touchdowns (15 TD)

The NCAA’s official national leaders since 1937, from Wikipedia’s yearly leader lists.

Heisman runners-up and finalists

The votes
2013Andre Williams RB4th
1993Glenn Foley QB5th
1983Doug Flutie QB3rd
1942Mike Holovak FB4th

Second to fifth in the vote, from each season’s Wikipedia article.

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
8
Coaches
3
2023Luke Kuechly LB
2017Mike Ruth DT
2007Doug Flutie QB
1985Mike Holovak FB
1984George Kerr OG
1982Gene Goodreault E
1975Chet Gladchuk C
1972Charlie O’Rourke QB
1970Frank Leahy coach here, 1939–⁠1940
1954Frank Cavanaugh coach here, 1919–⁠1925
1951Gil Dobie coach, career 1906–⁠1938

In the draft

By college
NFL picks, rounds 1–⁠7
140 since 1940
First-round picks
22
AFL picks
4 1961, 1963–⁠64
2023Zay Flowers WRNo. 22, Baltimore Ravens
2022Zion Johnson OGNo. 17, Los Angeles Chargers
2019Chris Lindstrom OGNo. 14, Atlanta Falcons
2012Luke Kuechly ILBNo. 9, Carolina Panthers
2011Anthony Castonzo OTNo. 22, Indianapolis Colts
2009B.J. Raji DTNo. 9, Green Bay Packers
2008Matt Ryan QBNo. 3, Atlanta Falcons
2008Gosder Cherilus OTNo. 17, Detroit Lions

Who came and went in the 2026 transfer portal, and every portal year.

The school

Boston College
Enrollment
15,432 10,314 undergraduates, fall 2024
Where
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Public or private
Private nonprofit; Research 1
Founded
1863
Graduates’ median earnings
$103,937 10 years after starting

Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.

Official accounts

Football
X @bcfootballInstagram @bcfootballFacebook bostoncollegefootball
Athletics department
X @bceaglesInstagram @bceaglesYouTube eaglemarketingFacebook BostonCollegeAthletics

Official accounts: the schools’ athletics websites: the ones bceagles.com lists for its football program and athletics department, as of Oct 12, 2026.

Voices

play-by-play
  1. 1989–⁠93Bob Lobel radio

With them: Gino Cappelletti (analyst, from 1984).

From the announcers’ Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA), with the years as each article gives them: those in Wikipedia’s Boston College football announcers category, and any whose article names them the program’s play-by-play voice. Television network crews and announcers whose articles give no years are left out.

On the newsreel

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record); some releases also via the Internet Archive. Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0), filed under the program’s Library of Congress subject heading; most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

Season by season

National champions

Shaded: national title seasons, No. 1 in the final AP poll or claimed by Boston College (1 claimed).

SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20263–⁠31–⁠2Bill O’Brien1445-4.9
20252–⁠101–⁠7Bill O’Brien1407-8.5
20247–⁠64–⁠4Bill O’Brien15241.2
20237–⁠63–⁠5Jeff Hafley1452-5.9
20223–⁠92–⁠6Jeff Hafley1367-14.9
20216–⁠62–⁠6Jeff Hafley14810.9
20206–⁠55–⁠5Jeff Hafley15250.9
20196–⁠74–⁠4Steve Addazio, Rich Gunnell1531-5.7
20187–⁠54–⁠4Steve Addazio15702.4
20177–⁠64–⁠4Steve Addazio15604.6
20167–⁠62–⁠6Steve Addazio1494-1.6
20153–⁠90–⁠8Steve Addazio14194.7
20147–⁠64–⁠4Steve Addazio15334.9
20137–⁠64–⁠4Steve Addazio14667.1
20122–⁠101–⁠7Frank Spaziani1369-2.8
20114–⁠83–⁠5Frank Spaziani1506-4.5
20107–⁠64–⁠4Frank Spaziani15457.1
20098–⁠55–⁠3Frank Spaziani157212.7
20089–⁠55–⁠3Jeff Jagodzinski162311.0
200711–⁠36–⁠210Jeff Jagodzinski167816.7
200610–⁠35–⁠320Tom O’Brien, Frank Spaziani167114.8
20059–⁠35–⁠32218Tom O’Brien168019.2
20049–⁠34–⁠221Tom O’Brien16368.5
20038–⁠53–⁠4Tom O’Brien162910.1
20029–⁠43–⁠4Tom O’Brien165611.9
Every season back to 1893 (91 more)
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20018–⁠44–⁠321Tom O’Brien159313.0
20007–⁠53–⁠4Tom O’Brien15459.4
19998–⁠44–⁠3Tom O’Brien14790.0
19984–⁠73–⁠4Tom O’Brien14140.0
19974–⁠73–⁠4Tom O’Brien1403-11.5
19965–⁠72–⁠5Dan Henning1427-4.7
19954–⁠84–⁠322Dan Henning1474-0.6
19947–⁠4–⁠13–⁠3–⁠123Dan Henning169416.1
19939–⁠35–⁠22113Tom Coughlin167015.7
19928–⁠3–⁠12–⁠1–⁠121Tom Coughlin155910.0
19914–⁠72–⁠4Tom Coughlin14966.9
19904–⁠7Jack Bicknell1414-8.1
19892–⁠9Jack Bicknell1396-6.2
19883–⁠8Jack Bicknell1438-5.3
19875–⁠6Jack Bicknell15177.8
19869–⁠319Jack Bicknell163711.4
19854–⁠8Jack Bicknell1500-2.2
198410–⁠2195Jack Bicknell171922.2
19839–⁠319Jack Bicknell166313.0
19828–⁠3–⁠1Jack Bicknell15988.6
19815–⁠6Jack Bicknell15096.4
19807–⁠4Ed Chlebek153414.7
19795–⁠6Ed Chlebek1437-0.5
19780–⁠11Ed Chlebek1293-20.1
19776–⁠5Joseph Yukica1482-2.7
19768–⁠3Joseph Yukica1553-1.1
19757–⁠4Joseph Yukica15774.6
19748–⁠3Joseph Yukica162114.9
19737–⁠4Joseph Yukica152710.8
19724–⁠7Joseph Yukica1459-2.1
19719–⁠2Joseph Yukica162213.1
19708–⁠2Joseph Yukica15792.2
19695–⁠4Joseph Yukica1489
19686–⁠3Joseph Yukica1502
19674–⁠6Jim Miller1394
19664–⁠6Jim Miller1416
19656–⁠4Jim Miller1537
19646–⁠3Jim Miller1544
19636–⁠3Jim Miller1551
19628–⁠2Jim Miller1591
19614–⁠6Ernest Hefferle1454
19603–⁠6–⁠1Ernest Hefferle1498
19595–⁠4Mike Holovak1535
19587–⁠3Mike Holovak1568
19577–⁠2Mike Holovak1531
19565–⁠4Mike Holovak1484
19555–⁠2–⁠1Mike Holovak1567
19548–⁠1Mike Holovak1573
19535–⁠3–⁠1Mike Holovak1475
19524–⁠4–⁠1Mike Holovak1388
19513–⁠6Mike Holovak1387
19500–⁠9–⁠1Denny Myers1316
19494–⁠4–⁠1Denny Myers1531
19485–⁠2–⁠2Denny Myers1536
19475–⁠4Denny Myers1511
19466–⁠3Denny Myers1507
19453–⁠4Moody Sarno1394
19444–⁠3Moody Sarno1461
19428–⁠2118Denny Myers1606
19417–⁠3Denny Myers1635
194011–⁠085Frank Leahy1713
19399–⁠211Frank Leahy1605
19386–⁠1–⁠2Gilmour Dobie1523
19374–⁠4–⁠1Gilmour Dobie1465
19362–⁠1–⁠1Gilmour Dobie1503
19351–⁠11508
19341–⁠1Joe McKenney1489
19332–⁠1Joe McKenney1485
19321–⁠2Joe McKenney1432
19311–⁠3Joe McKenney1426
19300–⁠4Joe McKenney1433
19291–⁠2–⁠1Joe McKenney1482
19283–⁠0Joe McKenney1514
19270–⁠2D. Leo Daley1414
19250–⁠1Frank Cavanaugh1483
19240–⁠1Frank Cavanaugh1510
19221–⁠1Frank Cavanaugh1535
19211–⁠0Frank Cavanaugh1524
19201–⁠0Frank Cavanaugh1489
19195–⁠3Frank Cavanaugh1432
1918few games on file0–⁠1Frank Morrissey1380
1917few games on file0–⁠2Charles Brickley1332
1916few games on file0–⁠1Charles Brickley1261
19020–⁠9Arthur White1151
19012–⁠7John Dunlop1300
1899few games on file2–⁠1John Dunlop1445
1898few games on file0–⁠3John Dunlop1366
1897few games on file0–⁠1John Dunlop1386
1896few games on file0–⁠1Frank Carney1406
1895few games on file0–⁠1Joseph Lawless1421
1893few games on file0–⁠1Joseph Drum1462

Officially 703–⁠541–⁠37 since 1893 (per Wikipedia, checked Sep 3, 2025); game by game here, 557–⁠474–⁠16 (1,047 of its 1,281 games are on file). Some games are missing from our source.

No season on file for 1894, 1900, 1903–⁠15, 1923, 1926, 1943: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.