By: Jess Lander, YawkeyTalkies Editor.
If there is one sport in Boston that is lacking championship trophies, it is college football. For a city with more than a hundred colleges and universities, college football is an unusually small deal.
Today, it was announced that Northeastern is cutting its 74-year old football program after a 3-8 losing season, making it the 6th losing season in a row for the Huskies. These six unsatisfactory seasons come after the Huskies first Atlantic-10 title in 2002. However, this year, the 3 million dollar program was deemed too expensive considering its lack of success. Northeastern home games averaged 1600 fans a game. To put this in perspective, Women’s Professional Soccer team the Boston Breakers, drew more fans in their inaugural 2009 season.
That’s right. Women’s soccer.
Northeastern follows Boston University, who cut their losing football program in 1997.
The only successful college football team in Boston is the Boston College Eagles, now the only remaining Division 1 football team in the area. This season, they are 7-4 with one game remaining. They still aren’t even ranked in the top 25.
But why is one of the best sport’s towns in America one of the worst for college football?
One obvious reason is [...]

Justin Tuggle (L) Dave Shinskie (R)

 
By Joshua Anderson, YawkeyTalkies Correspondent  
The last six games between the Boston College Eagles and the Clemson Tigers have all been decided by six points or less. Last year’s match up at Chestnut Hill in Boston saw Clemson steal a come from behind 27-21 victory with a touchdown in the last thirty seconds. Four of the last six games have been decided by field goals in the last two minutes. 
Hence, it’s safe too say that Saturday’s game will be the perfect opportunity for someone to step-up and make a game-winning play.
When Boston College heads south on Saturday to take on the Tigers in front of 90,000 screaming, orange-clad fans at “Death Valley,” aka Clemson Memorial Stadium, it will use a pair of freshman quarterbacks looking to do just that. Entering their third game of the season, the Eagles have yet to solidify the starting quarterback position. Two freshman – Dave Shinski and Justin Tuggle – have been competing for the starting job since preseason. Following two games where both saw equal snaps and put up equal numbers, the race for the starting spot seems [...]