The most hyped-up matchup of the college football weekend took place in the Bronx yesterday, with two ranked schools clashing late in the season. Unfortunately, the game didn’t quite match the hype. The No.3 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish pummeled the No.12 Syracuse Orange 36-3 in the Shamrock Series, with Syracuse’s only points of the game coming in the final seconds of the fourth quarter.
The hype around the game did properly set up what one could expect from a football game in a historic baseball venue. Since the opening of Yankee Stadium III in 2009, Hal Steinbrenner set his sights on returning to college football, and secured it with the New Era Pinstripe Bowl that began in 2010.