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

In an agenda for an NIU board meeting shared by Bryan Fischer on SI, Northern Illinois says that it expects for the ...

Northern Illinois confirmed on Tuesday that it is joining the Mountain West in 2026 as a football-only member. The school hasn't made any decisions on where its other sports will play but remains in ...

The Mountain West Conference will have nine football-playing members for the 2026 season. Northern Illinois was officially ...

Northern Illinois’ leaders took the podium Tuesday to discuss the football team’s groundbreaking move to the Mountain West in ...

The Northern Illinois Huskies’ football team will be joining the Mountain West Conference, leaving the Mid-American Conference that it had been a member of for nearly 30 years.

The Northern Illinois Huskies' football program is officially joining the Mountain West Conference for the 2026 season. NIU's ...

The addition of Northern Illinois gives the Mountain West nine football members. With it comes the ability to play a full ...

They will join Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, UTEP and Wyoming in the Mountain West.

The Mountain West added a perennial contender from another conference as a football-only member, giving the league nine teams ...

NIU has agreed to leave the MAC to join the Mountain West in football only and the NIU Board of Trustees will discuss the move this week. Here's what that move means for the Huskies.

Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West for football only in 2026. The Huskies will go from the Midwest-based Mid-American Conference to a league in which the ...