Georgia Tech snatch win over Boston College at the death in the Aviva

Lee Corso didn’t make the journey to Dublin this time but the veteran ESPN analyst could hardly contain himself on TV this week when he was asked for his memories of the original ‘Emerald Isle Classic’, played in a very different Lansdowne Road, back in 1988, writes Brendan O’Brien of the Irish Examiner.

Corso was only a year into his career as a pundit after almost three decades patrolling the sidelines in a variety of college football coaching roles and the trip to Ireland was a cultural leap for someone more familiar with life in the states of Maryland, Kentucky and Indiana.