Miami to Play Boston College On Thanksgiving Friday

GREENSBORO, N.C.–Miami and Boston College have agreed to play their 2011 football game the day after Thanksgiving on Friday, Nov. 25 at 3:30 p.m. at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.

The game will be nationally televised by ABC.

The meeting will be the first between the two teams at Sun Life Stadium. UM holds an all-time record of 23-4 against Boston College going back to 1955. The Hurricanes went 15-1 against the Eagles in their previous home, the Orange Bowl.

The last time the two teams met on a Friday, Miami lost to BC in 1984 in one of the more famous college football games ever played. That day, Boston College’s Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Doug Flutie won the game with a last-play “Hail Mary” pass play which was caught by BC’s Gerald Phelan in the end zone for a touchdown, giving the Eagles a 47-45 victory at the old Orange Bowl Stadium. The dramatic win by the Eagles is still their only victory over Miami in Miami.

While Miami has played its home games at Sun Life since 2008, Boston College does have one previous appearance in the stadium, defeating Virginia, 31-13, in the 1994 Carquest Bowl game.

The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 26.

Miami is scheduled to open its 2011 season at Maryland on Labor Day night, Sept. 5, at 8 p.m. on ESPN.