Northern Illinois Huskies

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	193	3,710	760	4.9	2,137	533	4.0	1,573	227	6.9
Team Rank		79th	57th	81st	49th	73rd	91st	66th	34th	43rd	49th
Opponent	11	230	3,903		5.1	2,784	592	4.7	1,119	176	6.4
Opponent Rank		124th	100th		105th	112th	87th	122nd	44th	32nd	63rd
Net		-37	-193	+760	-0.2	-647	-59	-0.7	+454	+51	+0.6
Net Rank		120th	81st	81st	84th	100th	92nd	97th	27th	37th	52nd

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Jerry Golsteyn J. Golsteyn	11	117	221	52.9	20.1	1,539	7.0	139.9	8	13	111.6	3.6	5.9
Dave Pienkowski D. Pienkowski	11	0	3	0.0	0.3	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vince Smith V. Smith	11	1	1	100.0	0.1	34	34.0	3.1	0	0	385.6	0.0	0.0
Carl Fisher C. Fisher	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	1	-200.0	0.0	100.0
Greg Whitacre G. Whitacre	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Ed Johnson E. Johnson	11	179	16.3	814	4.5	74.0	5	181	820
Vince Smith V. Smith	11	142	12.9	688	4.8	62.5	2	161	856
Carl Fisher C. Fisher	11	76	6.9	348	4.6	31.6	2	84	423
Tim Miller T. Miller	11	55	5.0	191	3.5	17.4	4	56	195
Dave Pienkowski D. Pienkowski	11	47	4.3	141	3.0	12.8	1	54	168
Jerry Golsteyn J. Golsteyn	11	30	2.7	-48	-1.6	-4.4	1
Ken Moore K. Moore	11	2	0.2	2	1.0	0.2	0	32	427
Greg Whitacre G. Whitacre	11	2	0.2	1	0.5	0.1	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Ken Moore K. Moore	11	30	2.7	425	14.2	38.6	3	32	427
Russ Hill R. Hill	11	24	2.2	425	17.7	38.6	2
Vince Smith V. Smith	11	19	1.7	168	8.8	15.3	1	161	856
James Louis J. Louis	11	14	1.3	275	19.6	25.0	1
Bob Florence B. Florence	11	10	0.9	121	12.1	11.0	1
Carl Fisher C. Fisher	11	8	0.7	75	9.4	6.8	0	84	423
Dave Pienkowski D. Pienkowski	11	7	0.6	27	3.9	2.5	0	54	168
Scott Paplham S. Paplham	11	2	0.2	31	15.5	2.8	0
Ed Johnson E. Johnson	11	2	0.2	6	3.0	0.5	0	181	820
Mike Flatley M. Flatley	11	1	0.1	16	16.0	1.5	0
Tim Miller T. Miller	11	1	0.1	4	4.0	0.4	0	56	195

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	PTS
Jerry Golsteyn J. Golsteyn	11	1		9	54
Ed Johnson E. Johnson	11	5	0	5	30
Tim Miller T. Miller	11	4	0	4	24
Ken Moore K. Moore	11	0	3	3	18
Vince Smith V. Smith	11	2	1	3	18
Carl Fisher C. Fisher	11	2	0	2	12
Russ Hill R. Hill	11		2	2	12
Bob Florence B. Florence	11		1	1	6
James Louis J. Louis	11		1	1	6
Dave Pienkowski D. Pienkowski	11	1	0	1	6

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,499

Maiava

1,453

Jennings

1,423

Atkinson

Rush Yards Leaders

644

Sheppard

600

Baugh

592

Riley

Rec Yards Leaders

617

Smith

585

Legree

564

Toney

Pass TD Leaders

14

Taylor

14

Mensah

14

Maiava

Rush TD Leaders

11

Baugh

9

Hawkins

9

Knight

Rec TD Leaders

7

Duff

7

Dixon

7

Smith

QB Rating Leaders

228.2

Mensah

209.1

Stockton

204.6

Hoover

Sack Leaders

7.0

Simmons

7.0

Umanmielen

6.5

Hopkins

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

54.8

53.5

51.8

48.0

47.5

45.0

Opp PPG Rankings

8.0

8.3

8.5

9.0

9.8

10.3

Total Yards Rankings

588.8

550.8

548.3

533.3

532.8

523.8

Rush Yards Rankings

355.7

333.7

294.8

281.5

281.3

Pass Yards Rankings

392.5

365.3

365.0

361.3

347.3

347.0

Sack Leaders

18.0

17.0

15.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Alabama	4	0	1.000
2	Florida	4	0	1.000
3	Georgia	4	0	1.000
4	Mississippi State	4	0	1.000
5	Texas	4	0	1.000
6	Ole Miss	3	1	.750
7	Auburn	3	1	.750
8	Kentucky	3	1	.750
9	LSU	3	1	.750
10	Missouri	3	1	.750
11	Tennessee	3	1	.750
12	Vanderbilt	3	1	.750
13	Arkansas	2	2	.500
14	Oklahoma	2	2	.500
15	South Carolina	2	2	.500
16	Texas A&M	2	2	.500

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	3	1	.750
2	Fresno State	3	1	.750
3	Colorado State	2	2	.500
4	Oregon State	2	2	.500
5	Texas State	2	2	.500
6	San Diego State	1	3	.250
7	Utah State	1	3	.250
8	Washington State	1	3	.250

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	4	0	1.000
2	Indiana	4	0	1.000
3	Iowa	4	0	1.000
4	Nebraska	4	0	1.000
5	Minnesota	3	1	.750
6	Ohio State	3	1	.750
7	Oregon	3	1	.750
8	Wisconsin	3	1	.750
9	USC	4	1	.800
10	Michigan	3	1	.750
11	Penn State	3	1	.750
12	Washington	3	1	.750
13	Northwestern	2	1	.667
14	Illinois	2	2	.500
15	Maryland	2	2	.500
16	Michigan State	2	2	.500
17	Purdue	1	3	.250
18	Rutgers	1	3	.250

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Cincinnati	4	0	1.000
2	Texas Tech	4	0	1.000
3	Utah	4	0	1.000
4	BYU	3	0	1.000
5	Baylor	3	1	.750
6	Oklahoma State	3	1	.750
7	UCF	3	1	.750
8	Arizona State	2	1	.667
9	Arizona	3	1	.750
10	Houston	3	1	.750
11	Kansas State	3	1	.750
12	West Virginia	3	1	.750
13	Colorado	2	2	.500
14	Iowa State	2	2	.500
15	TCU	2	2	.500
16	Kansas	1	2	.333

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	UMass	4	0	1.000
2	Kent State	2	2	.500
3	Eastern Michigan	2	3	.400
4	Toledo	3	1	.750
5	Buffalo	2	2	.500
6	Central Michigan	2	2	.500
7	Miami (OH)	2	2	.500
8	Ohio	2	2	.500
9	Western Michigan	2	2	.500
10	Akron	1	3	.250
11	Bowling Green	0	4	.000
12	Ball State	1	3	.250
13	Sacramento State	1	4	.200

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	4	0	1.000
2	Clemson	3	1	.750
3	Duke	4	0	1.000
4	Pittsburgh	4	0	1.000
5	Virginia Tech	4	0	1.000
6	Virginia	3	1	.750
7	Wake Forest	3	1	.750
8	Louisville	2	2	.500
9	SMU	3	1	.750
10	California	2	2	.500
11	Stanford	2	2	.500
12	North Carolina	2	1	.667
13	Boston College	2	2	.500
14	Florida State	2	2	.500
15	NC State	2	2	.500
16	Georgia Tech	1	3	.250
17	Syracuse	1	2	.333

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	4	0	1.000
2	UConn	2	2	.500

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	South Florida	4	0	1.000
2	Florida Atlantic	3	1	.750
3	UAB	2	2	.500
4	Army	2	1	.667
5	Memphis	3	1	.750
6	Tulsa	3	1	.750
7	UTSA	3	1	.750
8	East Carolina	2	2	.500
9	North Texas	2	2	.500
10	Tulane	2	2	.500
11	Rice	1	3	.250
12	Charlotte	0	4	.000
13	Temple	1	3	.250
14	Navy	1	2	.333

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
2	Liberty	3	1	.750
3	Delaware	2	2	.500
4	Florida International	2	2	.500
5	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
6	Missouri State	1	3	.250
7	New Mexico State	1	3	.250
8	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
9	Western Kentucky	1	3	.250
10	Middle Tennessee	2	2	.500

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	James Madison	4	0	1.000
2	Louisiana	3	1	.750
3	Appalachian State	3	1	.750
4	South Alabama	2	2	.500
5	Georgia State	3	1	.750
6	Marshall	3	1	.750
7	Arkansas State	2	2	.500
8	Troy	2	2	.500
9	Georgia Southern	1	3	.250
10	Louisiana Tech	1	2	.333
11	Southern Miss	1	3	.250
12	Coastal Carolina	1	3	.250
13	Old Dominion	1	3	.250
14	Louisiana-Monroe	0	4	.000

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	North Dakota State	4	0	1.000
2	UNLV	2	2	.500
3	Wyoming	2	2	.500
4	Air Force	2	1	.667
5	New Mexico	3	1	.750
6	San Jose State	2	2	.500
7	UTEP	1	3	.250
8	Northern Illinois	0	4	.000
9	Nevada	1	3	.250
10	Hawai'i	1	3	.250