On Saturday morning, when no one really knew the outcome of the game to follow that evening, the BC campus was quite excited as ESPN’s GameDay experience came to Chestnut Hill. It was the third time ever and first since 2009.

As “the dustbowl” as a term describing the open area surrounded by McElroy, Carney, Fulton, and Lyons halls seems to have gone into the dustbowl of history, GameDay’s stage and crowd were on Stokes Lawn.

And such a crowd!

Sam Apuzzo, center, and Walker-Weinstein, right.

In addition to the somewhat routine perusal of college football games coming up that day, GameDay also took a bit of time to acknowledge one of BC’s very successful women’s teams — lacrosse — ranked #1 nationally preseason. GameDay interviewed senior Sam Apuzzo, winner of last season’s Tewaarton Award as the nation’s best collegiate female lacrosse player, and BC coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein.

Chris O’Donnell ’92

And GameDay finished, as it traditionally does, with one of the host school’s graduates participating in game predictions. For BC Saturday, it was Chris O’Donnell ’92, current star of NCIS: Los Angeles.

And eight hours after GameDay, BC-Clemson kicked off.