The very first line of Matt Hinton’s Grantland column on the state of college football — specifically, the state of the SEC West, which has made itself synonymous with college football — nicely crystallizes the place in which the division now finds itself: One of the most satisfying aspects of the first year of the […]
Coming off a 2014 season in which the national championship game featured two members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference — Illinois State and four-time reigning champion North Dakota State — small wonder the preseason STATS FCS All-American is heavy on MVFC representation. Five 1st Team FCS All-American nominees hail from the Missouri Valley: Illinois […]
