As long as they play football in DeKalb, Ill., they will talk about the occasions of Saturday.
Entering its video game versus No. 5 Notre Dame as 28-point underdogs, Northern Illinois benefited from many Fighting Irish mistakes to take out a really stunning 16– 14 win.
The Huskies led for much of the contest, however tracked 14– 13 with 31 seconds to go. With a raucous Notre Dame Stadium crowd bearing down on him, Northern Illinois kicker Kanon Woodill pressed a 35-yard basket through the uprights to provide the Huskies the benefit.
Notre Dame kicker Mitch Jeter then missed out on a 62-yard basket at the last horn to protect Northern Illinois’s success.
it was the sort of triumph that obliged a country jointly onto College Football Reference and into its history books.
As Stewart Mandel of The Athletic kept in mind, it was the Huskies’ very first win over a top-10 group– and the very first for the MAC considering that Marshall and Toledo pulled double surprises versus No. 6 Kansas State and No. 9 Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 2003.
The MAC has actually not had a top-10 win given that 2003.
And the highest-ranked non-conference opponent NIU has actually ever beaten was No. 15 Maryland in 2003.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 7, 2024
It was likewise an extremely costly loss for the Fighting Irish.
Notre Dame paid Northern Illinois $1.4 million to play in South Bend today.
The Huskies simply beat the # 5 Fighting Irish 16-14– the most significant upset in NIU HISTORY. pic.twitter.com/wDd5IqiDFZ
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) September 7, 2024
Northern Illinois– all of a sudden the beloveds of college football– will delight in a well-earned bye week before satisfying Buffalo on Sept. 21.