Northern Illinois Huskies

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	174	3,214	764	4.2	2,020	567	3.6	1,194	197	6.1
Team Rank		99th	93rd	75th	91st	38th	18th	64th	95th	93rd	82nd
Opponent	11	259	4,006		5.3	1,573	434	3.6	2,433	329	7.4
Opponent Rank		62nd	66th		77th	28th	14th	47th	85th	81st	84th
Net		-85	-792	+764	-1.0	+447	+133	-0.1	-1,239	-132	-1.3
Net Rank		85th	82nd	75th	92nd	31st	16th	55th	102nd	95th	86th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Marshall Taylor M. Taylor	11	94	186	50.5	16.9	1,162	6.2	105.6	4	10	99.4	2.2	5.4
Pete Genatempo P. Genatempo	6	3	9	33.3	1.5	32	3.6	5.3	1	0	99.9	11.1	0.0
Keith Hurley K. Hurley	11	0	2	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	1	-100.0	0.0	50.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Marshall Taylor M. Taylor	11	184	16.7	438	2.4	39.8	6
Darryl Richardson D. Richardson	11	121	11.0	585	4.8	53.2	3	122	621
Antonio Davis A. Davis	11	67	6.1	215	3.2	19.5	2	68	215
Kent Iwema K. Iwema	11	50	4.5	184	3.7	16.7	2
Rodney Taylor R. Taylor	11	47	4.3	176	3.7	16.0	1	53	214
Keith Hurley K. Hurley	11	42	3.8	128	3.0	11.6	0	46	148
Joel Kinkade J. Kinkade	9	31	3.4	143	4.6	15.9	1	34	166
Curt Pardridge C. Pardridge	11	13	1.2	171	13.2	15.5	0	39	580
Pete Genatempo P. Genatempo	6	9	1.5	26	2.9	4.3	0
Mike Kent M. Kent	9	2	0.2	-21	-10.5	-2.3	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Curt Pardridge C. Pardridge	11	26	2.4	409	15.7	37.2	2	39	580
Virgil Gerin V. Gerin	11	18	1.6	231	12.8	21.0	2
Andy Wooldridge A. Wooldridge	11	18	1.6	192	10.7	17.5	1
Dan Graham D. Graham	11	11	1.0	151	13.7	13.7	0
Darryl Taylor D. Taylor	10	8	0.8	86	10.8	8.6	0
Rodney Taylor R. Taylor	11	6	0.5	38	6.3	3.5	0	53	214
Keith Hurley K. Hurley	11	4	0.4	20	5.0	1.8	0	46	148
Joel Kinkade J. Kinkade	9	3	0.3	23	7.7	2.6	0	34	166
Darryl Richardson D. Richardson	11	1	0.1	36	36.0	3.3	0	122	621
Kendrick Cross K. Cross	11	1	0.1	8	8.0	0.7	0
Antonio Davis A. Davis	11	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	68	215

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG
Steve Kmiec S. Kmiec	11	6	20	3.3
Mike Hollingshed M. Hollingshed	11	4	15	3.8
Rob Wicinski R. Wicinski	11	3	17	5.7
Pat McAvoy P. McAvoy	11	2	27	13.5
Tim Griffin T. Griffin	11	2	26	13
Pat Wilburn P. Wilburn	11	1	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Marshall Taylor M. Taylor	11	6		10			60
Bob Forester B. Forester	11				7	18	39
Curt Pardridge C. Pardridge	11	0	2	3			18
Darryl Richardson D. Richardson	11	3	0	3			18
Antonio Davis A. Davis	11	2	0	2			12
Virgil Gerin V. Gerin	11		2	2			12
Kent Iwema K. Iwema	11	2		2			12
Rodney Taylor R. Taylor	11	1	0	2			12
Pete Genatempo P. Genatempo	6	0		1			6
Joel Kinkade J. Kinkade	9	1	0	1			6
Andy Wooldridge A. Wooldridge	11		1	1			6
Darren Monnett D. Monnett	11					1	1

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Rodney Taylor R. Taylor	11	2	29	14.5	0	22	186	8.5	1
Curt Pardridge C. Pardridge	11	21	483	23.0	1
Antonio Davis A. Davis	11	6	91	15.2	0
Mike Hollingshed M. Hollingshed	11	4	58	14.5	0	1	6	6.0	0
Andy Wooldridge A. Wooldridge	11	3	26	8.7	0
Darryl Taylor D. Taylor	10	1	17	17.0	0
Steve Kmiec S. Kmiec	11	1	9	9.0	0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Bob Forester B. Forester	11	7	13	53.8						18	18	100.0	39
	Darren Monnett D. Monnett	11									1	1	100.0

Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG
Mike Kent M. Kent	9	52	2,170	41.7
Darren Monnett D. Monnett	11	12	421	35.1
Virgil Gerin V. Gerin	11	1	13	13.0

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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

7.5

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

332.3

294.8

281.5

281.3

Pass Yards Rankings

392.5

365.3

365.0

361.3

347.3

346.5

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