Name: Northern Illinois University
Conference: Mid-American Conference (MAC)
Founded: 1895
Enrollment: 20,015, with 15,079 undergraduates
School Colors: Cardinal and black
Nickname: Huskies, currently.
Currently? Well, they started competing in collegiate athletics in 1899 with the nickname “Profs,” which leads me to believe the professors competed (this is apparently not true). They switched to Cardinals in the 1920s, but that was a little too on-the-nose, given their color. They went as the Evansmen in the 1930s, after their football coach George Evans, and finally landed on the Huskies in 1940.