2013 Pinstripe Bowl

2013 New Era Pinstripe Bowl
Notre Dame's win was vacated by the NCAA in 2018.
1234 Total
Rutgers 10303 16
Notre Dame 103313 29
DateDecember 28, 2013
Season2013
StadiumYankee Stadium
LocationBronx, New York
MVPZack Martin (OT), Notre Dame
FavoriteNotre Dame by 15½[1]
RefereeDon Willard (MAC)
Attendance47,122
United States TV coverage
NetworkESPN
AnnouncersChris Fowler (play-by-play)
Jesse Palmer (analyst)
Paul Carcaterra (sidelines)
Nielsen ratings3.3[2]
Pinstripe Bowl
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The 2013 Pinstripe Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 28, 2013, at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of The Bronx. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. The fourth edition of the Pinstripe Bowl, it featured the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (based in nearby New Brunswick, New Jersey) of the American Athletic Conference against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, an independent team. It began at 12:00 noon EST and aired on ESPN. The game was sponsored by the New Era Cap Company, and was officially known as the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.

The Fighting Irish accepted their invitation after earning an 8–4 record for the season,[3] while the Scarlet Knights accepted their invitation after earning a 6–6 record.[4] Notre Dame defeated Rutgers by a score of 29–16; however, Notre Dame's win was vacated by the NCAA in February 2018, due to an academic cheating scandal.

This was the final game for Rutgers as a member of the American Athletic Conference. They joined the Big Ten Conference in the 2014 season, and the Pinstripe Bowl followed suit with a conference tie-in with the Big Ten starting in 2014.

  1. ^ Bowl Schedule, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2013
  2. ^ "SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings | Showbuzz Daily". www.showbuzzdaily.com. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  3. ^ "Notre Dame accepts bid to New Era Pinstripe Bowl". Pinstripe Bowl. December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  4. ^ "RFootball Earns Pinstripe Bowl Berth". ScarletKnights.com. Rutgers University. December 7, 2013. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 8, 2013.