Nearly 10,000 Boston College fans found their way to Orlando, charter flights carrying them there, booze flowing on take off, partying in downtown Orlando like it was the Super Bowl. The length of a show reflects its advertising market, and tonight's Tangerine Bowl is a hot sale in Boston. 38 under producer Cliff Allen, who worked more than 40 hours selecting footage and obtaining fresh comments from Bicknell at the Heights.īut the pregame package is no more of a public service effort than the 40- minute show leading up to last week's basketball game.
The show was put together energetically by Ch.
Donald Monan, and lighter moments showing exuberant students. There will be interviews with Eagle coach Jack Bicknell, athletic director Bill Flynn and college president Rev. Films will be used to review the seasons of Boston College and Auburn. 38) run the same risk of too much pregame hype as last Saturday's coverage of the Georgetown- Virginia basketball game by WTBS-TV?īeginning at 7 p.m., there will be an hour lead-in to the game. Can you believe this from the DecemBoston Globe?ĭoes tonight's Tangerine Bowl telecast (8 o'clock, Ch. The guys in the funny looking orange blazers descended on the Heights for several weeks and when Gerard Phelan caught a game winning TD pass from Flutie on November 13 against Syracuse, BC was bowl bound, on their way to face a freshman RB named Bo Jackson and the #18 Auburn Tigers.īC football fever hit Boston. Lead by a Cowboy from Maine, Coach Jack Bicknell who had the courage to believe in Doug Flutie, (Sir Douglas of the Darts, as he was penned by the local media), Boston College would go 8-2-1 in 1982 and earn their first bowl bid in 40 seasons.īC would open with a huge win against Jackie Sherrill and Texas A&M in College Station, followed by a 17-17 tie against defending national champion Clemson in Death Valley.Īs the wins mounted, whispers of bowl interest became loud conversations, BC was being courted by the Tangerine Bowl (now the Champs Sports Bowl) in Orlando. World War II came and BC, like many other programs, cut back on athletics and the football success that Chestnut Hill knew for those four glorious years would vanish.įor the next 40 seasons, Boston College would only be ranked in the Associated Press poll for five total weeks (three in 1976 and none between 19) and with the number of bowls significantly smaller than today, even seemingly stellar seasons like 1970 (8-2), 1971 (9-2) and 1976 (8-3 and the upset over Texas) were not rewarded with a bowl trip.Ī recruiting after thought, a fifth string QB on the depth chart at the beginning of the 1981 season, would finally change all that in 1982 and usher Boston College into the modern era of big time college football. Frank Leahy, Chuckin' Charlie O'Rourke, it was going to last forever, but we all know it didn't. Twice BC had finished in the AP Top 10 (#5 in 1940 and #8 in 1942) at a time where only ten teams were ranked. The 1942 season saw the Eagles reach heights never attained before or since, ascending to #1 in the Associated Press ranking on November 28 before the 55-12 debacle at Fenway Park against Holy Cross ruined the undefeated season forcing eighth ranked BC into "settling" for the above mentioned Orange Bowl trip. Although it was punctuated by a loss to Alabama in the Orange Bowl, in the span of four years, BC had appeared in three of the four major bowl games in a period when there were only five bowl games played (Rose, Orange, Cotton, Sugar and Sun). The date was January 1, 1943, Boston College had just finished a remarkable 1942 football season. 31, BC Interruption will be taking a look back at the top 10 bowl games Boston College has appeared in, leading up to the Eagles match up with Arizona in the AdvoCare V100 'Independence' Bowl.ġ982 Tangerine Bowl: Auburn 33, Boston College 26
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