Northern Illinois coach’s raw emotion after Notre Dame upset shows best of college football

NIU coach Thomas Hammock showed us why college football is so great after pulling off the biggest upset of the season.

The Northern Illinois Huskies were a 28-point underdog entering Week 2 against No. 5 Notre Dame on Saturday afternoon. The Huskies had never upset a top-10 opponent in program history, but the $1.4 million payday the school got for the matchup from Notre Dame made it worth the short trip from DeKalb, Illinois to South Bend. As it turns out, the Fighting Irish got a lot more than they bargained for.