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#Missouri valley football conference members full#

In 1992, when the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference merged with the MVC, the football conference kept the Gateway charter, with a minor name change to Gateway Football Conference. Ĭlass=notpageimage| Locations of Missouri Valley Football Conference Members

#Missouri valley football conference members full#

Indiana State, which had left MVC football after the 1981 season to become a Division I-AA independent while remaining a full MVC member, would join the next year. At that time, the two remaining I-AA members from the MVC (Illinois State and Southern Illinois) joined Eastern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Southwest Missouri State, and Western Illinois from the AMCU and together became a football conference under the Gateway's auspices. In 1985, the MVC stopped sponsoring football. (After dropping football, the AMCU later became the Mid-Continent Conference, and is now The Summit League.) The AMCU had absorbed the Mid-Continent Athletic Association, a football-only league founded in 1978. Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU): An all-sports conference, also founded in 1982, that sponsored football at the I-AA level through the 1984 season.Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (Gateway): A women's sports conference founded in 1982 by MVC member schools.In its last years as a football conference, it was a hybrid league that included teams in NCAA Divisions I-A (today's FBS) and I-AA (now FCS). Missouri Valley Conference (MVC): A long-established conference, in existence since 1907, that sponsored football until 1985.The Missouri Valley Football Conference has a complex history that involves three other conferences:

It participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference. The Missouri Valley Football Conference ( MVFC), formerly the Gateway Football Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (1982–1992)

Missouri Valley Football Conference Current season, competition or edition:Ģ023 Missouri Valley Football Conference season Not to be confused with Missouri Valley Conference.