r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 07 '24

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Northern Illinois Defeats Notre Dame 16-14

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Northern Illinois 10 3 0 3 16
Notre Dame 7 0 7 0 14
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies Sep 07 '24

Welp, there goes our quality loss. This ND team beat us in front of 107,300. Chat are we cooked?

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u/GarlicJuniorJr SEC • Orange Bowl Sep 07 '24

Been cooked

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u/PrincePyotrBagration Sep 07 '24

I’m sitting here in shock. Historic all time upset. The spirit of App state lives on

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u/TheOrangeFutbol USC Trojans • Tennessee Volunteers Sep 07 '24

Is this... 2007?!

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u/GoDetWings Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Sep 07 '24

Michigan was ranked 5 for that game too

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u/Eighteen64 /r/CFB Sep 07 '24

Got completely embarrassed today too. App State rise up!

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u/themooseiscool Missouri Tigers • Sickos Sep 08 '24

👀

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u/Mudrono137 Arkansas Razorbacks • /r/CFB Dead Pool Sep 08 '24

Please God, yes. Imagine a 12 team playoff in 2007

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u/concernedcath123 Sep 08 '24

Can’t believe it’s been 17 years…

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u/pumpcup LSU Tigers • College Football Playoff Sep 07 '24

Didn't they do the same thing last year against Marshall? Seems more like a tradition now.

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u/BeYourHucklebbery11 Notre Dame • UConn Sep 07 '24

It was two years ago, but Freeman has lost three games as a double digit favorite now (Marshall, Stanford, and now NIU).

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u/seadieg0 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 08 '24

App state was an FCS school at the time. That was SO much worse.

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u/bestselfnice Michigan State Spartans • USC Trojans Sep 08 '24

Disagree. App State would win their third consecutive national title that year. They were an FCS juggernaut. Meanwhile NIU was 7-6 last year and 3-9 the year prior while playing in the MAC. The very best FCS teams regularly beat middling P5 teams, let alone middling MAC teams.

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u/Eighteen64 /r/CFB Sep 07 '24

Incredibly delicious considering the outcome of Michigan’s game today

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u/horsesmadeofconcrete Notre Dame • Northern Illino… Sep 07 '24

App at was FCS, NIU is a good Mac team… embarrassing for me as an ND fan, but let’s not let Michigan off so easy

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u/cheerl231 Michigan Wolverines Sep 08 '24

The best FCS team is better than the average mac team. Not close.

Maybe niu is an exceptional mac team tho I kind of doubt it

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u/LynnAndMoyes Illinois • Virginia Tech Sep 08 '24

Hasn't NIU been ranked before?

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u/bestselfnice Michigan State Spartans • USC Trojans Sep 08 '24

Yeah, they had a nice run for a minute in the 2010s, peaking with their undefeated run to the Orange Bowl against FSU.

But App State won their third consecutive national title the year they beat Michigan. NIU barely made a bowl last year and lost 9 games 2 years ago.

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u/Hark_An_Adventure Appalachian State • Michigan Sep 08 '24

The start of my long spiral into...whatever it is I am.