To make things easier for people, I think it'd be good to go ahead and have future football schedules posted, as far as we know this at this point. I'll sticky this too, so it's easier to find and reference when necessary. For those unfamiliar with current MVFC scheduling, each pair of two years there is one pair of teams that don't play each other. In '12/'13 it was North Dakota State, '14/'15 it was Missouri State, '16/'17 was Youngstown State, and '18/'19 was South Dakota State. As of 2020, North Dakota will be joining the conference and each team in the MVFC will skip playing two teams each year. Probably that will be the same for a 2-year span, but I don't know enough about the 2021 schedule yet to know for sure. At this point, it looks like we will not be playing North Dakota State or Missouri State in 2020 and 2021.
Due to COVID-19, the 2020 season will not be played as originally scheduled.
2021 Spring Season
2/19 - at South Dakota
3/6 - at Illinois State
3/13 - vs Northern Iowa
3/20 - at South Dakota State
3/27 - vs North Dakota
4/3 - vs Youngstown State
4/10 - at Southern Illinois
4/17 - Indiana State
Do not play - North Dakota State, Missouri State
2021
9/2 (Thursday) - at Ball State (FBS, MAC), $350k guarantee
9/11 - at Montana
9/18 - vs Eastern Washington
10/2 - Homecoming (opponent TBD)
10/9 - at Indiana State
10/16 - vs South Dakota State
10/23 - at North Dakota
11/06 - vs South Dakota
2022
9/1 - at UT-Martin
9/10 - at Minnesota (FBS, Big Ten), $450k guarantee
9/17 - vs Southern Utah
10/1 - at South Dakota State
11/5 - North Dakota State
11/12 - Indiana State
Do not play - North Dakota, South Dakota
2023
9/9 - at Southern Utah
2024 (I think this is a 12-game season)
8/31 - at Northern Illinois (FBS, MAC), $350k guarantee
9/7 - vs UT-Martin
9/14 - at Eastern Kentucky
2025
9/13 - vs Eastern Kentucky
2026
9/12 - at Wisconsin (FBS, Big Ten), $575k guarantee
2028
9/2 - at Purdue (FBS, Big Ten), $450k guarantee
EDIT - added info from https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/western-illinois/
Future Football Schedules

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Need to get Drake on the Sched.
also plus they are a MVC school.
also plus they are a MVC school.
Excellent idea Tom!yokedneck wrote:Can we get USD on the schedule twice next year?![]()
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We do have an open date...let's play them here.

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Any pioneer league would be good...we've played Valparaiso, Drake, Butler, Jacksonville in recent years...hey maybe Dayton wants a rematch?

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