By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| August 30, 2025
DeKALB — For most of his tenure as NIU’s head football coach, Thomas Hammock didn’t enjoy wins. Not even Notre Dame. But after the Huskies’ latest victory, Hammock said he plans to appreciate them a lot more.
NIU survived a season-opening scare...
DeKALB — The Huskies earned their first win of the season on Saturday, defeating the Holy Cross Crusaders in a close 19-17 victory.
FIRST HALF
NIU opened the game on offense. Over the game’s first possession, the Huskies completed a first down...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| August 29, 2025
DeKALB — Each year, many NFL players are faced with the same harsh reality: They won’t live out their dream of playing on Sundays. Nearly 1,200 players are displaced by the league’s annual cutdown process as all 32 teams slash their rosters from...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| August 28, 2025
DeKALB — When NIU football head coach Thomas Hammock watched Holy Cross nearly pull off an upset at Boston College two years ago, he remembers thinking to himself, “Now, who would put Holy Cross on our schedule?”
Just a week earlier, the Huskies...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| August 28, 2025
As it prepares to close the book on its near-30-year run in the Mid-American Conference, the NIU football team has one departing wish: to stand atop the mountaintop of MACtion, one last time.
After an intense overhaul to the roster and coaching staff,...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| August 25, 2025
DeKALB — The long wait is almost over. Football season is upon us once again.
Months after capping an 8-5 season with a thrilling double-overtime victory in Idaho, NIU football returns to the gridiron this week. The Huskies will kick off their 124th...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| August 14, 2025
The NIU football team has added another Power Four opponent to its future schedule with the addition of a 2028 road game at the University of Pittsburgh, according to a report from FBSchedules.com.
NIU Athletics Hall of Fame running back LeShon Johnson was convicted by a federal jury last week of six felony counts of violating the Animal Welfare Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
“This criminal profited off of the misery...
At a glance
“EA Sports College Football 26,” the second installment since the franchise’s revival last year, released this week.
NIU received a 7o overall rating, making the Huskies one of the game’s lowest-rated teams.
Cornerback Jacob...
Last season, NIU fielded one of the top defenses in the country, finishing among the top 25 Football Bowl Division teams in most defensive statistical categories. Since then, that unit has undergone a drastic overhaul.
Defensive coordinator Nick Benedetto...
NIU football is one step closer to its swansong season in the Mid-American Conference after wrapping up a four-week stretch of spring practices last week.
The 15 practices, including the annual Spring Showcase on April 26, offered an early glimpse...
