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 . Notre Dame defeated Rutgers by a score of 29 – 16 . Notre Dame 's championship was vacated on February 13 , 2018 , due to an academic cheating scandal . Because of this the win will be taken away from Notre Dame record books
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2013 Pinstripe Bowl