The move puts the Mountain West Conference at nine teams: NIU, Air Force, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, UTEP and Wyoming. In the latest wave of realignment ...

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.

DEKALB (WREX) — Northern Illinois University has accepted an invitation for the Huskies to join the Mountain West Conference as a football only member beginning in 2026, NIU and the Mountain ...

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 ...

Northern Illinois University has accepted a formal offer to join the Mountain West Conference as a football-only member, according to a Board of Trustees agenda item for a meeting scheduled for 1: ...

[Editor’s note at 3:21 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 7, 2024: updated to insert press statements from NIU president Lisa C. Freeman and Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez.] ...

Northern Illinois confirmed on Tuesday that it is joining the Mountain West in 2026 as a football-only member. The school hasn't made any decisions on where its other sports will play but remains ...

The other sports will join a Midwestern conference to be named later ... is difficult to judge, because NIU isn't joining the familiar Mountain West. Five teams left to join the reconfigured ...

The Northern Illinois Huskies’ football team will be joining the Mountain ... the Huskies in the conference. “This is a truly exciting day for Northern Illinois University, for the NIU ...

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 ...

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 ...

NIU to the Mountain West is just the latest wacky move in conference realignment The Mid-American Conference isn't the first to have its pantry raided during realignment. In fact, it didn't even ...