Northern Illinois University (NIU) is poised to join UNLV in the Mountain West as a football-only member in 2026, a decision ...

The Northern Illinois Huskies' football program is officially joining the Mountain West Conference for the 2026 season. NIU's board of trustees approved the MWC's $2 million membership fee on Tuesday.

There have been seismic shifts in college football and by the end of it all the landscape will be unrecognizable.

NIU administrators are reaching higher, for the Mountains by joining the Mountain West Conference. NIU Vice President and Director of Athletics and Recreation Sean T. Frazier says NIU has to seize ...

With NIU leaving the conference, it’s a good time to start looking around at who could be on the target sheet for expansion.

The Northern Illinois Huskies’ football team will be joining the Mountain West Conference ... day for Northern Illinois University, for the NIU football program, and for Huskie fans throughout ...

That idea spurned an idea in Frazier's head. That idea was the inspiration behind NIU football's move to the Mountain West Conference. Get ahead of the curve while you still can. "We need to make ...

“In evaluating NIU, the MW board of directors and directors ... a prestigious group of universities to compete in the Mountain West Conference.” Northern Illinois is the only team to defeat ...

The conference announced on Tuesday that Northern Illinois (NIU) will join the league as a football-only addition on July 1, 2026. NIU comes to the Mountain West from the MAC.

The conference is set to lose Boise State ... There is hope within the Mountain West that NIU’s location in the Central time zone could help the league with its next TV deal, which is up ...

The Mountain West is undergoing a major transformation ... and meet FBS requirements, the conference has aggressively restructured, adding NIU, UTEP (all-sports), and converting Hawaii to full ...