The Northern Illinois Huskies football team are a college football program ...
The Northern Illinois Huskies football team are a college football program representing Northern Illinois University in the Football Bowl Subdivision ...
The Northern Illinois Huskies football team are a college football program representing Northern Illinois University in the Football Bowl Subdivision of college football. NIU football plays its home games at Huskie Stadium on the campus of the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.
The Huskies completed the most recent of their two stints in the in the Mid-American Conference in the 2025 season, having first played in the conference from 1975–85 before returning in 1997. They won six MAC championships – in 1983, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2021. NIU has played in 12 postseason bowl games since 2004, most notably the 2013 Orange Bowl.
The Huskies have agreed to move to the Mountain West Conference as a football-only member in 2026.
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