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Missouri Valley Conference Beat is a blog dedicated to the Missouri Valley Conference, Missouri Valley Football Conference, mid-major basketball and FCS football.  I am a Northern Iowa alum who loves small school DI sports.  Enjoy my ramblings about all things mid-major, with a focus on the Missouri Valley, below.

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Week 7 MVFC Primer and Power Rankings

A preview for week 7 in the MVFC, a quick look at other big games this week in the FCS, and my first league power rankings of the year.

Power Ranking the 11 FCS AQ Conferences

I power rate the eleven FCS Conferences with an automatic bid to the playoffs in 2021 from 11 to 1.

Quick Hits: Ranking the MVFC Money Games

Across the country FCS teams will be taking on FBS teams in nonconference games over the next few weeks. The FCS does pull the occasional...

Week 10: MVFC Power Rankings

FIVE BIDS! Holy cow. The committee showed the MVFC all the respect in the world by giving the league 66% of the at-large bids and...

MVFC Football Week 9 Power Rankings

Another team opted out this week as the MVFC continued to trudge along in this weird spring season. The league has now completed just...

MVFC Football Week 8 Power Rankings

From the very start, this season has had a bit of a “spring training” feel to it. No one else on the planet is playing football right now...

MVFC Football Week 7 Power Rankings

Congrats to the 36% of MVFC football schools that were able to successfully complete a football game this week. The big story for most of...

MVFC Football Week 6 Power Rankings

Kudos to Missouri State who are now 3-1 in the league after another road victory, their third of the season. They’ve picked on three of...

MVFC Football Week 5 Power Rankings

As we reach the (almost) midway point of the MVFC season, we are likely down to four possible playoff teams. Illinois State is 0-3, South...

MVFC Football Week 4 Power Rankings

Week 2 of the MVFC was nuts. Upsets abounded and chaos was the name of the day. However, order was restored in Week 3. All the higher...

MVFC Football Week 3 Power Rankings

We all knew that spring football in the time of COVID was going to be weird, and this week was VERY weird. Four MVFC teams entered play...

MVFC Football Week 2 Power Rankings

We have (sort of) played our first week of spring MVFC football. I didn’t know beforehand if it would feel weird playing in the spring. ...

2021 MVFC Spring Season Preview

The FCS football season kicked off with a banger last weekend and will begin in full this week. Many folks (including me) didn’t think it...

Week 9 Summary, Power Rankings and Mid Major Tidbits

It has been a weird scheduling week for the MVC as the weekend was originally scheduled as a makeup date for missed COVID games. Many of...

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