OVC

Team	Conf.	Overall	Poll	Elo	Last 5
Eastern Illinois	7–⁠1	8–⁠5		1381		LWWWL
UT Martin	6–⁠1	9–⁠3		1374		WWLWL
Tennessee State	5–⁠2	6–⁠5		1245		WWLWL
Eastern Kentucky	5–⁠3	6–⁠5		1347		LWWWW
Jacksonville State	5–⁠3	6–⁠5		1353		LWWWL
Tennessee Tech	4–⁠4	4–⁠7		1196		LLWLW
Southeast Missouri State	2–⁠6	4–⁠7		1185		LWLLL
Samford	1–⁠7	3–⁠8		1156		WLLLL
Murray State	0–⁠8	1–⁠10		1065		LLLLL

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

OVC teams are 12–⁠20 outside the conference.

• FBS teams0–⁠10
• Gateway Football Conference2–⁠4
• Southern Conference1–⁠3
• FCS Independents3–⁠0
• Others3–⁠0
• Big South1–⁠1
• SWAC1–⁠1
• MEAC0–⁠1
• MVFC1–⁠0

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

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.

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1948; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1948); 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 Ohio Valley Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $11.8 million in revenue, $1.7 million of it from NCAA equal conference fund, and $16.1 million in expenses; it ended the year with $5.7 million in assets. Its best-paid, sec-treasure Beth Debauche, was paid $393,000.

Grants it lists, 2024-25

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 62-0693124).