But those numbers have dipped consistently since, with only Penn State cracking the top 10 in the past 13 years. During its peak in the 1970s, northeastern schools made regular appearances near the top of the polls, averaging at least one team in the top 10 every week of the decade. It’s impossible to tell the story of college football without the Northeast. is home to roughly one-fifth of the country’s population, yet the massive potential audience has rarely translated into financial, recruiting or on-field success for the 12 FBS schools that call the Northeast home. That region - New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C. That was nearly four decades ago, and while BC has had its share of success since, it’s rare that the Eagles, or any of the other programs along the Northeast’s I-95 corridor, manage to crack the sports zeitgeist. It was a real thing where we were on par with the pro sports in this town.” “The excitement was real,” Flutie recently told ESPN. For a moment, at least, Boston is a college football town. When BC’s plane lands at Logan International Airport a few hours later, a crowd of hundreds of Eagles fans are waiting. The moment instantly becomes part of college football lore. The Hurricanes’ defensive backs didn’t think he had the arm for it, and the pass sails over their heads, landing in the waiting arms of Eagles receiver Gerard Phelan for a touchdown. He drops back - zeroes on the clock - and launches a Hail Mary toward the end zone. Doug Flutie has one last shot to beat defending champion Miami at the old Orange Bowl. IT WAS LATE November 1984, and Boston College had just made history.
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