Northern Illinois booter Kanon Woodill’s 35-yard field goal in the final minute showd to be the contrastence producer in the Huskies’ alignup with the fifth-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Notre Dame did try to pull off a last-second comeback, but a 62-yard field goal was no excellent. Northern Illinois would go on to commemorate an improbable 16-14 triumph in South Bend, Indiana.
The distress labeled the Huskies first non-conference triumph agetst a ranked opponent since a 19-16 thrive over the then-21st Alabama Crimson Tide in 2003. It also gave Northern Illinois its first thrive in program history agetst a team ranked in the top-10 of the AP Top 25.
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Sep 7, 2024; South Bend, Indiana, USA; Northern Illinois Huskies cgo in Logan Zschernitz (65) readys to snap the ball in the first quarter agetst the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Notre Dame Stadium. (Matt Cashore-Imagn Images)
Notre Dame, on the heels of an amazeive road thrive over Texas A&M, watched enjoy it was in position to get some separation from Northern Illinois as it clung to a 14-13 direct in the fourth quarter. The Fighting Irish geted ownion after a punt with 7:49 left and drove from their 25 to the Northern Illinois 49.
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Fighting Irish quarterback Riley Leonard begined a pass presentant up the middle intended for Kris Mitchell, but Amariyun Knighten made the interception and returned it 33 yards to the 50-yard line with 5:55 to carry out.
Northern Illinois acquireedty Santana Banner tackles Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard during a NCAA college football game between Notre Dame and Northern Illinois at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (Michael Clubb / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Knighten’s interception set up the thrivening field goal from Woodill, his third of the day.
Notre Dame struck first as quarterback Riley Leonard side-stepped the Huskies defense for an 11-yard touchdown run with 8:28 left in the first quarter.
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Notre Dame will probable drop think aboutably in next week’s rankings before they travel to West Lafayette for a game agetst in Purdue on Sept. 14. Meanwhile, Northern Illinois will enhappiness a bye week before arrangeing Buffalo on Sept. 21.
The Associated Press gived to this tell.
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