Huskie Stadium; Photo courtesy of NIU AthleticsAndy VillamarzoSun, November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM UTC·2 min readThe Illinois High School Association (IHSA) announced in a press release on Saturday that the 7A and 8A high school football state championship games have been moved to Northern Illinois University’s Huskie Stadium for Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively.
“We are incredibly thankful to NIU, the Huskie Athletic Department, and the DeKalb community for welcoming back the IHSA Football State Finals on short notice,” IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson said in the press release. “We had a wonderful state final experience in DeKalb over the course of a decade and have a relationship of hosting IHSA State Series events on campus that dates back even further. NIU’s partnership with the IHSA and support of high school student-athletes in Illinois has proven to be second to none.”
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe IHSA was forced to postpone the football state finals for the first time in the 51-year history of the event due to a severe winter storm that entered the region.
The Class 5A/6A championship games will be played at Illinois State this Tuesday, December 2 at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively. The Class 7A/8A title games were initially supposed to be hosted at Illinois State, but due to scheduling conflicts had to be moved to another location.
“Illinois State was committed to hosting all eight state championship games if possible, but could not host the 7A and 8A title games until Thursday due to a scheduling conflict on Wednesday,” Anderson said in the release about moving the games from Illinois State to NIU. “We did not want to further impact the schedules and routines of our competing teams, so NIU’s willingness to step up, especially given the geography of the competing teams, made this an easy decision.”
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