Big South-OVC
A former conference: 10 schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 2023. 2024 champions: Southeast Missouri State and Tennessee State and Tennessee Tech and UT Martin.
2026 standings
| Team | Conf. | Overall | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Southeast Missouri State | 2–0 | 4–3 | ||
 UT Martin | 2–0 | 3–4 | ||
 Lindenwood | 2–1 | 2–4 | ||
 Western Illinois | 1–1 | 3–4 | ||
 Eastern Illinois | 1–1 | 2–5 | ||
 Gardner-Webb | 1–2 | 2–6 | ||
 Charleston Southern | 0–2 | 3–4 | ||
 Tennessee State | 0–2 | 2–5 |
In the template’s own order, its tiebreakers applied. Standings: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): 2026 Ohio Valley Conference football standings (license).
Champions
Most titles
| UT Martin | 2 | last 2024 |
| Southeast Missouri State | 1 | last 2024 |
| Tennessee State | 1 | last 2024 |
| Tennessee Tech | 1 | last 2024 |
| Gardner-Webb | 1 | last 2023 |
By year
| 2024 | Southeast Missouri State, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin (shared) |
| 2023 | Gardner-Webb, UT Martin (shared) |
Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.
Schools
Every school and its years (10)
Members
- Charleston Southern 2023–2024
- Eastern Illinois 2023–2024
- Gardner-Webb 2023–2024
- Lindenwood 2023–2024
- Southeast Missouri State 2023–2024
- Tennessee State 2023–2024
- Tennessee Tech 2023–2024
- UT Martin 2023–2024
- Western Illinois 2024
- Bryant 2023
Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 2023; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.
Who came and went
| Season | School | Move | Announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bryant | Left for Coastal Athletic Conference (football only) | August 10, 2023 | |
| 2024 | Robert Morris | Left for NEC (football only) | November 28, 2023 | |
| 2024 | Western Illinois | Joined from MVFC (football only) | May 12, 2023 |
Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in 18 of 19 team-seasons from 2023. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in 14 of 15 team-seasons from 2023. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.