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 ...

NIU football's move to the Mountain West Conference was inspired by another major college football realignment move, and it might mean more change is coming for Northern Illinois athletics.

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Northern Illinois will join the Mountain West as a football-only member in 2026, joining Air Force, Hawai'i, UNLV, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State and Wyoming.

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 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.