Yahoo Sports reportedly published and later removed a headline that mistakenly described Northwestern State as a Big Ten team after it lost to Louisiana Christian. The article argues that the error was particularly embarrassing because it confused Northwestern State, an FCS programme, with Northwestern University, and because it apparently remained online long enough to be noticed and shared on social media.

Louisiana Christian, an NAIA side, beat Northwestern State in one of the first college football games of the 2026 season, a result described as the first time an NAIA team had defeated a Division I opponent. The original Yahoo Sports link subsequently led to an error page, while the mistake was preserved in a screenshot posted by an X user with about 13,000 followers; the Fox News/OutKick commentary says both the writer and editorial checks should have caught it.