The Irish have mowed down three straight opponents ranked in the Top 10. NIU, meanwhile, finished tied for sixth in the MAC with an 8–5 overall record—but the Huskies did win the Potato Bowl.

The 2026 edition of the Mountain West consists of Air Force, Hawaii ... Mid-American Conference expansion candidates With NIU leaving the conference, it’s a good time to start looking around ...

NIU has always been a bit of a black sheep in the MAC family; their 37 years in the league are non-consecutive, after all. A previous sojourn to the doomed Big West Conference in the late 1980s ...

On Tuesday, Northern Illinois University’s Board of Trustees will vote on whether NIU's football team will leave the Mid-American Conference, or MAC. NIU accepted a football-only invitation to the ...