Football | October 16

***With today's win, NIU is 5-2 overall, 3-0 in the MAC for its best start since 2017.
 
***Jay Ducker gained a career and NIU team season high 210 yards on 33 carries to record his first 100-yard game, and the fifth by a Huskie back this year. Ducker is the fourth different NIU player to rush for 100 yards in a game this year.
 
***Jay Ducker ran for 210 yards on 33 carries, the most yards by a Huskie since Jordan Lynch ran for 321 yards versus Western Michigan on November 26, 2013.
 
***Ducker's 210 yards are the most by a MAC player this season and the 15th highest total in the FBS (entering today's action).   
 
***NIU's 319 yards and 59 carries were both season highs.
 
***Trayvon Rudolph's 100-yard kickoff return in the second quarter was the first kickoff return touchdown by a Huskie since October 22, 2016 when Aregeros Turner had a 97-yard kickoff return for a score versus Buffalo.
 
***Rudolph's return ties for the longest kickoff return in school history with Tommylee Lewis' 100-yard return at Toledo on November 1, 2011.
 
***Rudolph's return is the third 100-yard scoring play in school history. In addition to the two kickoff returns, Dave Petway scored on a 100-yard interception return versus Southern Illinois on Oct. 22, 1977.
 
***Mason Blakemore became the fifth different Huskie to score a rushing touchdown in 2021 with a 17-yard scamper in the second quarter.
 
***NIU kicker John Richardson was 2-for-2 on field goals and has now made 13-of-14 field goals on the season.