Drake (Pioneer) head coach Todd Stepsis is taking the same position at Northern Iowa (MVFC). Stepsis had a successful tenure in Des Moines leading Drake to its first-ever FCS Playoff appearances with back-to-back trips in 2023 and 2024. Stepsis was hired by Drake for the 2019 season, led them to a 6-5 campaign, and a … Read more
Mark Farley’s extensive reign at Northern Iowa will end after the 2024 season. Farley announced his retirement after 24 seasons as the Panthers’ head coach. Farley was a member of UNI’s football team from 1982 through 1985 where he garnered all-conference honors in 1983, 1984, and 1985, honorable All-American mentions in 1984 and 1985, and … Read more
Bethune-Cookman (SWAC) and Miami (FL) (ACC) are set to play in 2025, per the Miami Herald. The Wildcats will play at the Hurricanes on Saturday, September 6. Miami is undefeated against Bethune-Cookman with all 7 matchups played since 2011. Miami has outscored the Wildcats 50 to 8 on average across those 7 games. Northern Iowa … Read more
The Missouri Valley Football Conference will begin the search for its second commissioner as Patty Viverito has announced her retirement following the 2024-25 academic year. Viverito confirmed the news at the MVFC’s media day event on Tuesday. Viverito has been the conference’s only commissioner since its formation in 1982 with football sponsorship beginning in 1985. … Read more
The SWAC has announced another set of games that will be broadcast on YouTube via its digital network for the upcoming 2024 season. 19 games in total will be shown on the SWAC Digital Network between Saturday, September 7 through Saturday, November 16. 11 of the 19 games will be conference matchups while the other … Read more
The 2024 NFL Draft is complete and over a dozen former FCS players are on their way to NFL careers. The advent of the transfer portal has allowed players maximum flexibility towards finding the right fit and FCS players often end up playing in the FBS before being drafted. 11 players were selected directly from … Read more
The Missouri Valley Football Conference has decided against a fall football season as the conference will move its conference slate to the spring of 2021. The MVFC will attempt an 8 game conference schedule in the spring and hope that the FCS Championship will be moved to the spring as well. The non-conference games are … Read more
The Big Sky Conference and Pioneer Football League have both announced they will not be playing a conference schedule for the 2020 season. As a result, the 2020 FCS Playoffs are in serious jeopardy of not being contested as 50% of the eligible teams have to be playing in the fall for the championship to … Read more
The Big Ten will move to a conference only schedule for the 2020 football season, which impacts numerous games across the FBS and FCS. The Big Ten also confirmed the news in its own press release. Eight games featuring an FCS team are now canceled as a result of the Big 10’s decision. Those eight … Read more
The Northern Iowa Panthers and Air Force Falcons have scheduled the first-ever football matchup between the schools for 2022 per FBSchedules. Northern Iowa will play at Air Force on Saturday, September 3 and receive a guarantee of $300,000 for the contest per the contract obtained by FBschedules. Earlier this week, Air Force was announced as … Read more