MVFC

Nine current members, four former. Our membership records under this name start in 1985. 2025 champion: North Dakota State.

2016 standings

TeamConf.OverallPollEloLast 5
North Dakota State8–⁠112–⁠231630WWWWL
South Dakota State7–⁠29–⁠471498WWWWL
Youngstown State6–⁠212–⁠421514WWWWL
Illinois State4–⁠46–⁠61427LWWWL
Northern Iowa4–⁠45–⁠61422WLWWL
Western Illinois3–⁠56–⁠51338LWLLL
South Dakota3–⁠54–⁠71265WLLLL
Missouri State2–⁠64–⁠71211LWLLL
Indiana State2–⁠64–⁠71261LWLLL
Southern Illinois2–⁠64–⁠71284LLWLW

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. Poll: the FCS coaches’ poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 2016

MVFC teams are 25–⁠14 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from the FBS count together.

Champions

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.

Members

  1. Missouri State1985–⁠2024
  2. Western Kentucky2001–⁠2006
  3. Illinois State2008 on
  4. Indiana State2008–⁠20192021 on
  5. North Dakota State2008–⁠2025
  6. Northern Iowa2008 on
  7. South Dakota State2008 on
  8. Southern Illinois2008 on
  9. Western Illinois2008–⁠2023
  10. Youngstown State2008 on
  11. South Dakota2012 on
  12. North Dakota2020 on
  13. Murray State2023 on
Every school and its years (13)

Members now

Former members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1985; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2026North Dakota StateLeft for Mountain West Conference (football only)February 9, 2026
2025Missouri StateLeft for Conference USA (football only)May 10, 2024
2024Western IllinoisLeft for Big South-OVC (football only)May 12, 2023
2023Murray StateJoined from OVC (football only)April 4, 2022
2020North DakotaJoined (independent before) (football only)January 26, 2017
2012South DakotaJoined from Great West Conference (football only)November 3, 2010
2008North Dakota StateJoined from Great West Conference (football only)Source
2008South Dakota StateJoined from Great West Conference (football only)Source
2001Western KentuckyJoined from OVC (football only)Source
1985 †Illinois StateJoined from MVC (Held dual membership for one year) (football only)Source
1985Missouri StateJoined from Mid-Continent Conference (football only)Source

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. † Our membership records (CollegeFootballData.com) date the move to another season, or don’t show it. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in 219 of 220 team-seasons from 1985. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 80 team-seasons from 1985. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

NFL first-round picks 4

North Dakota State3
Northern Iowa1

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1985); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.

The money

The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $1.7 million in revenue, $1.1 million of it from officials’ fees, and $1.8 million in expenses; it ended the year with $1.3 million in assets. Its best-paid, secretary/treasurer (thru 6/2025) Patty Viverito, was paid $107,000.

By year

YearRevenueExpensesAssetsTop pay
2024-25$1.7M$1.8M$1.3M$107K
2023-24$1.8M$1.6M$1.4M$90K
2022-23$1.3M$1.3M$1.3M$98K
2021-22$1.2M$1.2M$1.2M$57K
2020-21$1.2M$831K$1.1M$54K
2019-20$1.2M$1.2M$869K$55K
2018-19$1.1M$1.1M$652K$53K
2017-18$1.1M$1.1M$601K$52K
2016-17$1.1M$1.0M$593K
2015-16$949K$943K$554K
2014-15$907K$933K$599K
2013-14$862K$820K$576K
2012-13$1.0M$836K$559K
2011-12$718K$710K$328K
2010-11$738K$691K$321K

Best paid, 2024-25

Patty Viverito, secretary/treasurer (thru 6/2025)$107,000

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 37-1121184).