Head to head
Compare Northern Illinois with any college football fanbase
Pick any two fanbases and compare what their comment sections say, stat for stat.
Sence classified 1,082 comments on Northern Illinois’s page across the 2025–26 season: 73.8% of them positive, a Fan Score of 738.4 positive comments per 1,000, and 12 harm and identity-based abuse per 1,000. Pick a second fanbase to read every one of those numbers against another comment section.
Who do you want Northern Illinois to face?
Pick a second fanbase above, or start with one of the matchups Northern Illinois fans would reach for first.
Ball StateThe Bronze Stalk Trophy, a corn-country grudge NIU carries into a new league
Notre DameThe 2024 shocker in South Bend, then a 3–9 goodbye to the MAC
ToledoNIU and Toledo owned the MAC West through the 2010s; only one stays in the MAC
Air ForceAir Force stays put in the Mountain West, the league NIU moves to in 2026
