BOSTON (AP) – With its highest national ranking in 23 years, Boston College knows it’s a big target for teams trying to attract national attention.

The next team with that goal is Bowling Green, which will try to end the Eagles’ 15-game home winning streak today and spoil the unbeaten record that earned them the seventh spot in the Top 25.

“It’s just a ranking, but other teams see it as, ‘we can knock off the top dog,”‘ BC linebacker Matt Herzlich said. “It’s a David-and-Goliath type thing.”

Despite unimpressive wins in their last two games, the Eagles (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) have their highest ranking since Doug Flutie led them to the No. 5 spot at the end of the 1984 season.

“You’re either the hunted or the hunter and when you start winning games people want to knock you off and you’re wearing the bulls-eye,” BC coach Jeff Jagodzinski said.

The Eagles have a chance for the school’s first 6-0 start since 1942 but would like to play better than they did in beating Army and Massachusetts in their last two games. They jumped from the 12th to the seventh spot after many teams ahead of them were upset.

“It’s always difficult to be chased rather than chasing,” linebacker Jolonn Dunbar said. “You’re fighting for your life, the lion or the gazelle.”

Asked which he’d rather be, Dunbar said, “I guess I like chasing. I’d rather be the hunter than the hunted, but it’s all right.”