For more than a century, NIU has hosted a Homecoming football game as part of the oldest college tradition in the state and one of the longest in the country. Since the inaugural contest in 1903 where NIU won 6-0, the Homecoming game hasn’t just...

This Saturday, NIU football will chase a trophy it has never once lost — and never once won. The Huskies will welcome the Miami RedHawks to DeKalb for NIU’s 118th Homecoming, with the Mallory Cup on the line. The trophy was created in 2018 to honor...

DeKALB — Call it a rock fight. Call it a slog. Call it whatever you want. Just don’t call it pretty. In a football game where punts outnumbered points, NIU already had the distinction of being one of the nation’s worst offenses. Once San Diego...

DeKALB – Adding another loss to increase its losing streak against the San Diego State University Aztecs (3-1), NIU football (1-3) produced its lowest scoring game since the 2010 season in a 6-3 loss at home.  FIRST HALF San Diego State won...

The last three weeks haven’t exactly gone NIU football’s way. The Huskies haven’t won a game since Aug. 30, when they opened the season with a narrow victory over Holy Cross. Since then, they’ve visited two Power Four opponents — Maryland...

DeKALB — On paper, NIU and San Diego State seem like polar opposite football teams. The Huskies are 1-2 after a blowout road loss to Mississippi State, while the Aztecs sit at 2-1 following a 34-0 home trouncing of previously-unbeaten California....

Each week during the college football season, the Northern Star will recap the most interesting NIU grades published by Pro Football Focus, a sports analytics company that evaluates every player on every play of every game. Season and single-game grades...

For one half of football, the NIU Huskies looked like a team that could compete in one of the country’s toughest conferences. They trailed by just four points at halftime on the road against the unbeaten Mississippi State Bulldogs. But unfortunately,...

NIU football (1-2) fell to the Mississippi State University Bulldogs (4-0) 38-10 on Saturday. Travelling to matchup with the Bulldogs for the first time in program history on Saturday, the Huskies totaled 267 yards, compared to the Bulldogs’ 452.  FIRST...

It’s been two weeks since the NIU football team last took the field. The Huskies walked off of it with a frustrating 20-9 loss in Maryland. Now, fresh off a bye week, NIU is hitting the road once more to face a new opponent in a Saturday matinee. The...

DeKALB — The NIU football team is just days away from making its first-ever trip to Starkville, Mississippi, to face the unbeaten Mississippi State Bulldogs, but you can already hear the cowbells coming from Huskie Stadium. Wait, cowbells? In DeKalb?...

I’m not going to sit here and tell you NIU has played great football this season. I won’t pretend to be as confident in the Huskies on Tuesday morning as I was more than a week ago — on a dark, humid Friday night in Maryland. After hearing all...