• BigSouthOVCFootball.com
Ahead of its inaugural season, the Big South-OVC Football Association has launched a new website. The site allows the association to brand its 10 members institutions.
Beginning in July 2023, that website will be the primary point of information for OVC football teams. Please visit the link at the top of the page for the latest information. OVCSports.com will continue to host the archives section but will not feature new website stories.
In February 2022 the Big South Conference and Ohio Valley Conference announced the creation of an association of their football member institutions, to begin with the 2023 NCAA Division I football season and have an initial term of at least four years. The unique agreement combines the two conferences’ football membership to ensure NCAA championship access and stability for the multisport conferences. In creating the association, presidents from each of the multisport conferences pointed to the similarities of the OVC and the Big South, with their complementary geographies and intercollegiate athletic philosophies, as key to making this association possible.
Schools included in the association include Bryant University (Smithfield, RI), Charleston Southern University (Charleston, SC), Eastern Illinois University (Charleston, IL), Gardner-Webb University (Boiling Springs, NC), Lindenwood University (St. Charles, MO), Robert Morris University (Moon Township, PA), Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau, MO), Tennessee State University (Nashville, TN), Tennessee Technological University (Cookeville, TN) and University of Tennessee at Martin (Martin, TN). Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL) will join the association beginning with the 2024 season.