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Meineke Car Care Bowl |
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Real life
"Rudy" wins it on last play for Boston
College 25-24 over Navy in the Meineke
Car Care Bowl.
 Recap:
It's fitting that Boston College's
bizarre month would end with an
improbable finish that made a hero out
of a walk-on kicker.
Steve
Aponavicius kicked a career-best 37-yard
field goal on the final play and the
23rd-ranked Eagles beat the Midshipmen
25-24 in the Meineke Bowl to extend the
nation's current longest bowl-winning
streak to seven.
``What they
had to overcome and all the adversity,''
interim coach Frank Spaziani said. ``No
one asked about Navy. Everyone was
talking about the situation.''
``The
situation'' was former coach Tom
O'Brien's stunning decision three weeks
ago to leave BC for Atlantic Coast
Conference rival North Carolina State.
Green Bay offensive coordinator Jeff
Jagodzinski was hired to replace him,
but won't join the team until the
Packers' season is over....more
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