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

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

Northern Illinois confirmed on Tuesday that it is joining the Mountain West in 2026 as a football-only member.

Northern Illinois will join the Mountain West as a football-only member in 2026, joining Air Force, Hawai'i, UNLV, Nevada, ...

The Mountain West Conference on Tuesday announced the addition of Northern Illinois University as a football-only member ...

The Northern Illinois Huskies’ football team will be joining the Mountain West Conference, leaving the Mid-American ...

Northern Illinois University’s Board of Trustees will vote on whether NIU's football team will leave the Mid-American ...

Northern Illinois’ board of trustees will meet Tuesday to discuss and vote on the acceptance of an invitation to join the ...

Mountains are exactly what comes to mind when you think of Illinois, but one of the state’s football programs has officially ...

DeKalb, Illinois isn’t known for its mountains, but that isn’t stopping Northern Illinois from sending its football program ...

Another football program is set to join the Mountain West. The conference announced on Tuesday that Northern Illinois (NIU) ...

Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West for football only in 2026. The Huskies will go from the Midwest-based MAC to a conference in which the easternmost school is in ...