Michigan State’s defense couldn’t stop a late rally from Boston College as Thomas Castellanos hit Lewis Bond for a 42-yard touchdown pass with 88 seconds left for a 23-19 win for the Eagles in the annual Red Bandanna Game.
Bond caught six passes for 102 yards, grabbing the game-winner for BC (3-1) at the Spartans’ 13 and then crossing the field before strutting into the end zone – the sixth lead change of the game.
“It was my first game-winner, ever,” Bond said. “That’s why I kind of took a lap of glory before going in.”
Aidan Chiles led Michigan State into BC territory before he was picked off by Max Tucker at the back of the end zone, and the Eagles ran out the rest of the clock. The BC students stormed the field in celebration and milled around in the drenching rain as the band played the school’s fight song, “For Boston.”
BC improved to 5-6 in the game that honors the memory of former lacrosse player Welles Crowther, who died while rescuing more than a dozen people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. He was known for carrying a red bandanna.