Northern Illinois stuns No. 5 Notre Dame for first-ever win over a top-10 team
Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame 16-14 with a late field goal by Kanon Woodill on Saturday.å
Woodill kicked a 36-yard field goal with 31 seconds left as Notre Dame couldn’t stop the Huskies after a second interception by Riley Leonard. It’s Northern Illinois’ first-ever win against a team ranked in the top 10 of the AP Top 25. It’s also one of the larger upsets by point spread in modern college football, as the Irish were favored by 28.5 points coming into the game.
A week after Notre Dame took down Texas A&M in College Station, the Irish offense struggled to move the ball. Leonard threw a bad interception with 5:55 to go as he inexplicably forced a deep pass into a two-safety look on second-and-1.
Northern Illinois ran over five minutes off the clock after the pick, but Notre Dame had one more chance thanks to a bad spot and horrible clock management by the officials. However, Mitch Jeter’s 62-yard field goal was blocked as time expired.
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