The 2021 season will mark the seventh in an agreement with ESPN to distribute all 44 league games on ESPN3 (or ESPN+), while the league has implemented other initiatives to promote its institutions, student-athletes and coaches, including a weekly podcast series (“First and Goal”), and video segments that review (“Two-Minute Drill”) and preview (“The Extra Point”) each week’s contests throughout the season.
South Dakota State extended the league’s FCS-record streak of having at least one MVFC team in the finals to 10-straight years as the Jackrabbits reached the FCS Championship in the Spring of 2021, falling to second-seeded Sam Houston State in the final seconds. In terms of post-season success, a league school has reached the title game 11 times since 2011 (North Dakota State-8, Illinois State-1, South Dakota State-1, Youngstown State-1). The league had an FCS-best 16 student-athletes on the FCS Stats Perform All-America team, and the MVFC had a league-record five players taken in the 2021 NFL Draft, highlighted by QB Trey Lance of NDSU who was the third overall pick. In 2020-21, five MVFC teams were ranked in the Top 13 of the final Stats Perform Top 25 poll, led by SDSU’s No. SIU, which snapped NDSU’s FCS- and league-record 39-game winning streak, was making its first playoff appearance since 2009 Missouri State earned its first league title and first playoff appearance since 1990 UND reached the playoffs in its first year as an MVFC member and NDSU and SDSU extended their streaks of consecutive playoff trips to 11 and nine-straight years, respectively. Four teams advanced to the quarterfinals, and South Dakota State reached its first title game. Those three schools were joined in the playoff field by North Dakota State and Southern Illinois. Three schools shared the league title (Missouri State, North Dakota, and South Dakota State), marking just the second time in league history that the Conference had tri-champions. Despite cancelled games due to COVID-19 which also led to multiple league teams who became unable to compete or complete the season, five MVFC teams made a playoff field that was limited to only 16 total participants.
THE MISSOURI VALLEY FOOTBALL CONFERENCE (1985-present)įounded in 1985, the Missouri Valley Football Conference has shaped itself into the nation’s premier NCAA FCS conference.Īlthough the 2020-21 season did not yield a national championship, the season may have been one of the most successful in league history as the Conference and its member schools navigated through a season that was shifted from the fall to the spring.
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