NIU’s football program will spend one more season ... That was the largest crowd at Huskie Stadium in 11 years, going back to Oct. 26, 2013 against Eastern Michigan, the last crowd above 20,000.

NIU’s football program left the MAC behind once before in 1985 to become an independent. It eventually joined the Big West conference in the early ’90s. That experiment didn’t work out, so ...

DEKALB (WREX) — Northern Illinois University has accepted an invitation for the Huskies to join the Mountain West Conference as a football only member beginning in 2026, NIU and the Mountain ...

Northern Illinois has been formally approved as a football-only member of the Mountain West by the conference’s board of directors and school administrations. The Huskies will begin play in the ...