NIU football has beaten very long odds to be a consistently strong mid-major football program over the last several years. Can they keep it up?
Ohio State's opponent in Week 3 for next season, Northern Illinois, is coming off what might be considered a down season...and they still won 11 games. The Huskies have dominated the MAC for five yeas, have won double digit games every season since 2010, have spent time in the AP Top 25 for three of the past five years, made a BCS bowl, and cracked the Top 16 in both 2012 and 2013, rarified air for a MAC program.