Northeastern Huskies

Northeastern has played football since at least 1937 and is 30–⁠60 in the 90 games on record. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 player from Northeastern. This season, they’re 3–⁠8.

Résumé

Record on file
30–⁠60 .333; how we count
Postseason
0–⁠0 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 0 ranked
Elo now
1204
Best season by Elo
2003 rated 1390
Seasons
16 since 1937, 90 games

2009 season 3–⁠8

RosterFull 2009 season

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Northeastern’s Elo through 2009: 1222 going into the opener, 1204 after the last game.1150117512001225Elo 1222 going in; lost to Boston College 54–0Elo 1217 going in; lost to Maine 17–7Elo 1203 going in; lost to Youngstown State 38–21Elo 1184 going in; lost to Villanova 56–7Elo 1177 going in; lost to Holy Cross 42–21Elo 1166 going in; lost to William & Mary 34–14Elo 1157 going in; beat Towson 27–7Elo 1193 going in; lost to New Hampshire 48–21Elo 1187 going in; lost to Massachusetts 37–7Elo 1173 going in; beat Hofstra 14–13Elo 1184 going in; beat Rhode Island 33–27Final: Elo 1204 after the last game1204
Elo going into each game, then after the last. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

On the 2009 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Northeastern.

Program strength since 1937

Best seasons ever
Northeastern end-of-season Elo from 1937 to 2009, best in 2003 at 1390.130015001700190019401950196019701980199020002003 peak: Elo 1390
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesNE record
Hofstra74–⁠3
Rhode Island75–⁠2
Maine71–⁠6
Massachusetts70–⁠7
New Hampshire62–⁠4
William & Mary51–⁠4
Villanova51–⁠4
Every opponent (31)

Every program Northeastern has played, A to Z, with Northeastern’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Conferences

  1. Atlantic 10 2003–⁠2006
  2. CAA 2007–⁠2009
  • 1997Joined the Atlantic 10 from the Yankee Conference in football. Source
  • 2007Joined the CAA from the Atlantic 10 in football. Source
  • 2010Joined the Dropped football from the CAA in football. Source

Northeastern’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
1
Coaches
0
2004Dan Ross TE

In the NFL Draft

By college
Drafted, rounds 1–⁠7
5 since 1979
First-round picks
0

Season by season

National champions
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20093–⁠83–⁠51204
20082–⁠101–⁠71184
20073–⁠92–⁠61292
20065–⁠64–⁠41304
20052–⁠91–⁠61231
20045–⁠64–⁠41355
20038–⁠46–⁠31390
20021–⁠01276
20001–⁠01225
19990–⁠11183
19770–⁠11182
19730–⁠11177
19710–⁠21177
19700–⁠11186
19380–⁠11190
19370–⁠11193

No season on file for 1939–⁠69, 1972, 1974–⁠76, 1978–⁠98, 2001: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

All 16 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.