Here's one personal memory of covering Northern Illinois University football. The school introduced new head coach Joe Novak ...

The Mountain West Conference has announced the addition of Northern Illinois in football after the school's board of trustees ...

DEKALB, Ill. — Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West for football only in 2026, the school and conference announced Tuesday. The Huskies will go from the Midwest ...

Northern Illinois is the only football team to defeat Notre Dame this season. On Jan. 20, NIU coach Thomas Hammock will be ...

Northern Illinois has won five MAC titles since 2011, the most of any school. The Huskies upset Notre Dame, a College Football Playoff semifinalist, in September and finished the season with an ...

Since a stunning Week 2 loss, the Fighting Irish are 13-0 and have outscored teams by 333 points in those games.

A new time zone, that is. The conference will expand to the Central Time Zone as it welcomed Northern Illinois as a football-only member on Tuesday. The Huskies, whose Board of Regents voted to ...

Northern Illinois has played 39 seasons in the MAC over two stints from 1975 to 1985 and since 1997. It was in the Big West Conference in football from 1993 to 1995 and operated as an independent ...