After spending 28 years as members of the Mid-American Conference, Northern Illinois are set to join the Mountain Wet Conference as conference realignment continues to take shape in college football.

The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences are headed back to court after failing to reach a settlement agreement in mediation ...

Northern Illinois University officially announced its decision to leave the Mid-American Conference behind to become a football-only member of the Mountain West Conference, effective July 1, 2026.

Northern Illinois has played 39 seasons in the MAC over two stints from 1975 to 1985 and since 1997. It was in the Big West Conference in football from 1993 to 1995 and operated as an independent ...

The Mountain West’s future likely isn’t stretching to DeKalb, Illinois anytime soon. Northern Illinois football and its past interest in joining the Mountain West Conference is “waning” in ...

The Mountain West Conference continues to remake itself, announcing today that Northern Illinois is joining the league as a football-only member for the 2026 season. The league’s lineup will ...

Northern Illinois said Friday it has not received a "formal offer to consider a change" in its conference amid media reports that it could be a target of the Mountain West.

Per Brett McMurphy, the Mountain West Conference notified MAC offices on Thursday night about their intention to recruit Northern Illinois University and the University of Toledo as football-only ...

Northern Illinois has played 39 seasons in the MAC over two stints from 1975 to 1985 and since 1997. It was in the Big West Conference in football from 1993 to 1995 and operated as an independent ...