BOSTON — The venerable grounds at Fenway Park hadn’t hosted football since 1968, and Notre Dame football did little on the field to push the sport forward Saturday.
Take away the green, glitzy glamour of the seventh Shamrock Series—Notre Dame’s annual off-site home game—and focus on the 60 minutes of game action inside the warning track. The Irish did trudge away from Boston College with a 19-16 win and a 10-1 record, but Notre Dame left much to be desired and plenty to be developed before it meets Stanford next weekend in what could prove to be a playoff-clinching regular-season finale.