Joe Novak’s team has one goal: win the MAC Championship. However, NIU going 4-0 for the first time since 1965 won’t hurt anything either, the NIU football coach said. The four non-conference wins match Novak’s total from the past six seasons combined....

Every 20 years, the NIU football team seems to do something special. At halftime of Saturday’s NIU-Iowa State game, the 1963 and 1983 Huskies teams were honored. The ’63 players wore NIU jerseys with No. 63, while the ’83 teams wore the No. 83’s....

Both players walked into their second-floor Douglas 221 residence hall without scholarships and something to prove in the summer of 2000. I A pair of linebackers from the south side of Chicago, Brian Atkinson and Travis Moore didn’t know each other...

Forty years ago, the NIU football team was on top of the country. A 10-0 record and a Mineral Water Bowl victory secured a National Championship for the Huskies. Yes, that’s right, a National Championship. Albeit a national title in the College Division,...

NIU quarterback Josh Haldi seemed surprised when he realized the Huskies be the favorite in their game at 3:05 p.m. Saturday against Iowa State at Huskie Stadium. “It’s kind of different,” Haldi said. “Realistically, I think we got the bullseye...

You would think following the NIU football team, after all the success its had this season, would be pretty easy. But I found myself enduring quite an adventure just to be able to see our beloved team play on Saturday. The game was not covered on any...

Two days after three MAC teams upset ranked teams, MAC Commissioner Rick Chryst called Saturday one of the biggest days in the conference’s history. “Heading into the weekend we had a sense our teams would compete well,” said Chryst, in a press...

Friday, 10:26 a.m. Depart and begin the 700-plus mile trip south. Friday, 3:15 p.m. Katiz, Ky. The first stop of the trip. This is something even a writer couldn’t dream up. While sitting at a Cracker Barrel restaurant for an afternoon meal, the bluegrass...

There is no place in the world like Tuscaloosa, Ala., on football Saturdays. Two weeks ago when Alabama hosted Oklahoma on ESPN, the play-by-play announcer called games at Bryant-Denny Stadium “a happening.” That may be an understatement. People arrive...

Despite flight delays that made the NIU football team more than an hour late to Huskie Stadium, about 40 supporters still waited for them early Sunday morning. “We were like, ‘Damn it’s a crowd of people out here,’” said senior cornerback Randee...

As the Convocation Center erupted Saturday night, there were about 500 NIU fans ecstatic for their victorious Huskies. You couldn’t help but think, “Is this really Northern Illinois University?” When NIU upset Associated Press No. 21 Alabama 19-16,...

Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Three weeks after the biggest win in his career, NIU football coach Joe Novak has outdone himself. With the victory over Maryland a distant memory, a confident NIU Huskies football team emerged from historic Bryant-Denny Stadium victorious,...