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Talk about déjà vu. One year has passed since NIU and Bowling Green faced off at Detroit’s Ford Field for Mid-American Conference bragging rights. Jordan Lynch’s undefeated and nationally ranked Huskies, who were looking for a third straight MAC crown during their fourth consecutive appearance in the Motor City, somehow went home on the wrong...

Ten Northern Illinois University football players were honored Wednesday by the Mid-American Conference as the league announced the 2014 All-MAC football teams as selected by the league coaches. Huskie offensive linemen Tyler Loos (Sterling, Ill./Sterling HS) and Andrew Ness (O’Fallon, Mo./Christian Brothers College), defensive end Jason Meehan (St. Louis, Mo./Webster Groves HS) and cornerback Paris...

When last weekend’s Homecoming football game ended with a 34-17 thud, it wasn’t the pair of broken win streaks that upset Coach Rod Carey. Rather, it was the disappointing play of his team. “Give Central Michigan a ton of credit. Every time we fought back in, or had a little momentum, they made a play...

Twenty years after their first and only meeting – a game played before many NIU students were alive – the NIU Huskies and the Arkansas Razorbacks will battle again in Fayetteville. Arkansas prevailed in the Nov. 12, 1994, contest, but not by much. The final score was 30-27. Coach Rod Carey’s Huskies, who are 3-0...

The Northern Illinois University Huskies wrapped up 2014 spring football practices Saturday at Huskie Stadium with a modified version of the “Huskie Bowl” won by the Cardinal Team made up of the entire NIU defense. Points were awarded for one-one-one drills, a field goal competition and third-down conversions in seven-on-seven situations before the offense and...

Who’s ready for some Motor City Magic, Chapter Four? Jordan Lynch and the still-undefeated NIU Huskies football team earned their fourth consecutive ticket to the 2013 Mid-American Conference Championship tonight with a 35-17 win over the Toledo Rockets, who had been the only remaining obstacle between Rod Carey’s crew and Detroit in December. Lynch ran...

One week after Jordan Lynch became only the second FBS player in the last decade to catch a touchdown pass, run for a TD and pass for four more scores in the same game, the red-hot quarterback is invading Tom Brady’s house. It’s the sixth road game this season for NIU’s undefeated Huskies, who continue...

NIU football radio announcers Bill Baker and Mark Lindo didn’t realize they were witnessing history Saturday when they began laughing about something the color commentator had said off the air. Baker revealed that Lindo had predicted the pair would see Huskie QB Jordan Lynch reel off a 50-yard run, and the 49-yard scamper they’d just...

Northern Illinois University quarterback Jordan Lynch set the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 316 yards on 32 carries leading the No. 23 Huskies (7-0, 3-0 MAC) to a 38-17 Mid-American Conference win over Central Michigan at Kelly/Shorts Stadium Saturday. Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS) broke the record held...

For a college football team about to play only its fourth game of the season, the NIU Huskies already have seen plenty. Victory in a Big Ten stadium. An early weekend off. A four-hour flight across the country followed by a long bus ride to a hotel and another time-consuming bus ride to not a...

When the NIU football team last battled Toledo, the two teams combined for 123 points. Sixty-three of those belonged to the victor Huskies. A year later, with MAC Championship rights again on the line, the Rockets are coming Wednesday night to DeKalb on the heels of a stinging 34-27 conference loss to Ball State. They’re...

The Northern Illinois defense made the stop it needed to make as freshman linebacker Boomer Mays tackled Army quarterback Trent Steelman for a two-yard loss on fourth and three with 1:47 to play, securing the Huskies’ 41-40 victory over the Black Knights Saturday at Michie Stadium. Mays’ stop came after NIU took the lead with...