Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a string of ten universities League for College Football. The teams play in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I- AA). The headquarters is located in St. Louis, Missouri.
History
The league was founded in 1985 as the Missouri Valley Conference ceased to organize a football championship. The previous league was mixed with participants of the Division IA and Division I- AA. The current participants in the Division I -AA Illinois State, Indiana State and Southern Illinois joined Eastern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Southwest Missouri State and Western Illinois and newly formed the Association of Mid-Continent Universities, today's Summit League, for all sports, except for football. Their football departments joined the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, which was previously an all-female league.
1992, when the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference joined the MVC, the Football League remained independent, changed its name now to Gateway Football Conference. After several member changes Finally, in 2008 the present name Missouri Valley Football Conference was adopted. Most recently, the University of South Dakota invited as 10th member on 4 November 2010 to join the league. They will participate for the first time in the 2012 season.