Irish head coach Brian Kelly grew up in suburban Boston and is no stranger to Fenway Park.

Highly-Anticipated Game vs. BC at Fenway Park on Saturday

Nov. 17, 2015

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TIME, DATE AND PLACE
* 7:42 p.m. ET; Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015
* Fenway Park (37,673); Boston, Massachusetts

TELEVISION
* NBC Sports Network national telecast with Dan Hicks (play-by-play), Doug Flutie (analysis), Kathryn Tappen (sideline), Rob Hyland (producer) and Pierre Moossa (director).
* NBC Sports Network will also have live pre-game and post-game shows featuring Liam McHugh (host), Jonathan Vilma (analyst) and Hines Ward (analyst).
* It is the first regular season game on cable for Notre Dame since CBS College Sports aired the Oct. 26, 2013, game at Air Force. This will be the first Notre Dame-controlled game to be broadcast on cable since the Irish faced Penn State on ESPN on Nov. 17, 1990.

RADIO
* IMG College Sports is the exclusive national rights-holder for Irish football radio broadcasts. Notre Dame games will be broadcast to 117 affiliates by Don Criqui (play-by-play) and Allen Pinkett (analysis). This broadcast can be heard live on SiriusXM Satellite Radio (channel 129).
* The broadcast will be preceded by a one hour pre-game show hosted by Tony Castricone with Criqui, Pinkett and interviews conducted by Jack Nolan. It will be followed by a national post-game show hosted by Castricone, Criqui and Pinkett.
* All games can be heard in South Bend on WSBT 96.1 FM & 960 AM, and Sunny 101.5 FM.

TICKETS
* Saturday night’s game at Fenway Park is sold out.
* Notre Dame has played in front of sellout crowds in 284 of its previous 333 games (.853) overall. Notre Dame has played before 655 sellouts in 934 total games (.701) since 1930. The Irish have sold out 297 of their last 298 home games dating back to 1964, including each of the last 249 in a row since 1973.
* Every Notre Dame game this season has attracted a sellout crowd, including a Temple record 69,280 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Oct. 31 and a Heinz Field-era Pitt record 68,400 on Nov. 7.

SERIES INFO
* Notre Dame is 13-9 all-time against Boston College. The Irish have won each of the last four meetings, most-recently claiming a 21-6 win in Chestnut Hill in 2012.

THE COACHES
* Notre Dame: Brian Kelly, 54-21 at Notre Dame (6th year), 225-78-2 overall (25th year), 3-1 vs. BC
* Boston College: Steve Addazio, 17-19 at BC (3rd year), 30-30 overall (5th year), 0-0 vs. ND

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
* Notre Dame is looking to finish a season undefeated and untied at Notre Dame Stadium for the 26th time and just the second since 1998, joining the 2012 squad.

COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF
12 WR Will Fuller has 12 receiving TDs this year, tying for sixth in the nation. Eight of the 12 TDs have been 30 yards or longer.
11 Notre Dame has scored 11 TDs this year of at least 50 yards. It is believed to be a school record, eclipsing the 10 TDs of at least 50 yards compiled by the 1988 consensus national championship team.
10 Notre Dame is looking to improve to 10-0 with the win. Coupled with the 2012 season (12-1) the Irish would have two 10-win seasons in a four year span for the first time since hitting double digits five times in six years from 1988-93.
9 LB Jaylon Smith (number nine) is a midseason first-team All-American. He leads the Irish with 87 tackles on the season on the heels of a career-high tying 14 stops last Saturday against Wake Forest.
8 DL Romeo Okwara ranks eighth in the nation with his nine sacks (0.90 per game).
7 This is the seventh installment of the Shamrock Series where Notre Dame takes a home game off campus to help maintain its national footprint. The Irish are 6-0 in the Shamrock Series.
6 Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has won at least eight games in each of his first six years at Notre Dame. Only one “Power 5” head coach (LSU’s Les Miles with 10) has a longer active streak to start their tenure at his current school.
5 Notre Dame currently holds all five of its traveling trophies. The Frank Leahy Memorial Bowl is on the line this week.
4 Notre Dame is 4-1 this year against ACC teams. The Irish have never beaten five teams from the same league in the same season. On six occasions, the Irish have beat four Big Ten teams in one season, most recently in 1993.
3 Freshman RB Josh Adams has three 100-yard rushing efforts on the season, matching the school’s freshman record.
2 Only twice in school history has an Irish quarterback ran for more TDs in a single season than DeShone Kizer’s eight – Tony Rice (nine in 1988) and Rick Mirer (nine in 1991).
1 The Irish have scored at least 22 points in each of their first 10 games. This has only happened one other time in school history, by the consensus national championship team of 1949.
0 Of 175 previous neutral site games, Notre Dame has never played one closer to its opponent’s home field than the 3.9 miles from Alumni Stadium to Fenway Park.