2013 Pinstripe Bowl

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.