The Northern Illinois Huskies will travel once again this week, embarking on their seventh (and final) road game in ten weeks, as they take on one of their biggest rivals, the Toledo Rockets.
Last Tuesday the Rockets (6-3, 3-2 MAC) survived a scare from Kent State to keep pace with the top teams in the MAC West while NIU (3-6, 2-3 MAC) had a bye week after getting walloped 48-10 by Central Michigan on November 2nd.
Thomas Hammock, a former NIU running back, was 0-3 in his playing days against the Rockets (1999-2001) and will be looking to beat Toledo for the first time now as a head coach.