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Five Things Learned: UAB vs Northern Illinois

The Northern Illinois Huskies dropped yet another bowl game...this time to the UAB Blazers. But what did we learn from the Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl?

While it wasn’t official at the start of the game, afterwards we just learned it would be the Huskies’ star player’s final game.

Smith, who just set the NIU single-season sack record, announced this morning he would be forgoing his final year of eligibility.

The star defensive end garnered All-American status the past two seasons and this year finished with 56 tackles, 24.