This time last week, NIU departed for the Mountain West as a football-only member. We still haven’t heard about what will happen to their other sports and how the MAC will deal with such a ...

After more than a decade at Hustle Belt, I have made the difficult decision that it is time to step away from writing. I grew up a fan of the Northern Illinois Huskies. My mom went there, both my ...

The most stable conference in college football lost a piece of its stability Tuesday afternoon. Northern Illinois University officially announced its decision to leave the Mid-American Conference ...

The new reality of the college football world came crashing down on the Mid-American Conference offices in Cleveland, Ohio, back in late September, when the Mountain West Conference— a peer ...

The Eastern Michigan Eagles have not been shy about using the transfer portal to find its quarterback talent in the modern era. Tyler Wiegers, Ben Bryant, Taylor Powell, and 2024 starter Cole ...

New Years Day is always two things: the start of something new and a day where it’s almost always expected to be a lazy waste of space and watch football most of the day. This year’s version ...

Guess who’s back, back again, Fearless Leader’s gambling picks are back, tell a friend. It was a chalk weekend for the first round of the college football playoffs, but when games go according ...

When the format of the college football playoff was announced, the biggest football fans among us thought this would be wonderful. Basically a month of games that could replace some of the ...

Sometimes you have to leave home to truly appreciate the feeling of coming back. Such is the case with Sieh Bangura. Bangura suited up for Ohio from 2021-23 and transferred to Minnesota for the ...

Miami RedHawk fans could be excused for being nervous at the halftime break of the 2024 Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl on Saturday afternoon. Despite dominating the game flow and forcing two turnovers ...

For the final installment of Belt’s Beer Garden, I go over the best beers of the year. In 2024, I was able to try 834 new beers, an increase of 82 beers from last year’s total of 752 beers ...

Records were made to be broken, and two of the most important ones for a certain position were shattered in Mobile, AL on Thursday night. Bowling Green tight end Harold Fannin Jr. now stands alone ...