Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain ... The Huskies will go from the Midwest-based MAC to a ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (KOLO) - Northern Illinois University will be joining the Mountain West Conference as a football ...

The conference will expand to the Central Time Zone as it welcomed Northern Illinois as a football-only member on Tuesday.

(AP) — Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation ... Conference to a league in which the easternmost school is in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They will join Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New ...

The addition of Northern Illinois gives the Mountain West nine football members. With it comes the ability to play a full ...