The Pioneer Football League (PFL) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference. It has member schools that range from New York, North Carolina, and Florida in the east to California in the west. It is headquartered in St. Louis, in the same complex that also contains the offices of the Missouri Valley Conference and Missouri Valley Football Conference. Unlike most other Division I FCS conferences, the Pioneer League consists of institutions that choose not to award athletic scholarships ("grants-in-aid") to football players.
The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in partnership with the Big South Conference in the Football Championship Subdivision, the lower of two levels of Division I football competition. The OVC has 11 members, six of which compete in football in the conference.
Morehead State University (MSU) is a public university in Morehead, Kentucky. The university began as Morehead Normal School, which opened its doors in 1887. The Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics, a two-year residential early college high school on the university's campus, was established in 2014.
Phillip Martin Simms is an American sportscaster and former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons with the New York Giants. After playing college football for the Morehead State Eagles, Simms was selected in the first round by the New York Giants as the seventh overall pick in the 1979 NFL Draft. Simms was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of Super Bowl XXI, after he led the Giants to a 39–20 victory over the Denver Broncos and set the record for highest completion percentage in a Super Bowl, completing 22 of 25 passes (88%), as well as the highest passer rating in a Super Bowl at 150.9; both of these records still stand. He was also named to the Pro Bowl for his performances in the 1985 and 1993 seasons.
The Morehead State Eagles are the athletic teams that represent Morehead State University (MSU), located in Morehead, Kentucky, United States, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division I ranks, primarily competing in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) since the 1948–49 academic year; while its football team competes in the Pioneer Football League (PFL). The Eagles previously competed in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1933–34 to 1947–48; and in the defunct West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) from 1929–30 to 1932–33.
The Morehead State Eagles football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Morehead State University located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Pioneer Football League, the only public school in the conference. Morehead State's first football team was fielded in 1927. The team plays its home games at the 10,000 seat Jayne Stadium in Morehead, Kentucky.
The Morehead City Marlins are a collegiate summer baseball team playing in the Coastal Plain League (CPL). The team is based in Morehead City, North Carolina and plays its home games at O'Neal Field at Big Rock Stadium in Morehead City. The team began play in the CPL in the 2010 season and competes in the league's East division.
The Morehead State Eagles are an NCAA Division I men's basketball team that represents Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, United States. The school is a charter member of the Ohio Valley Conference and has competed in the OVC since its inception in 1948.
The 2011 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Eagles were led by 18th-year head coach Matt Ballard and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They are a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 3–8, 2–6 in PFL play to finish the season in a tie for eighth place.
The 2012 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Eagles, a member of the Pioneer Football League, played their 49th season at Jayne Stadium on the university campus. They were led by Matt Ballard, who was in his 19th and final season as head coach. Following a 4–7 season, Ballard was fired.
The 2010 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Pioneer Football League (PFL). The Eagles were led by 17th-year head coach Matt Ballard and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They finished the season 5–6, 4–4 in PFL play.
The 2013 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 3–9, 3–5 in PFL play to finish in seventh place.
The 2014 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 4–8, 3–5 in PFL play to finish in a tie for seventh place.
The 2015 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 7–4, 6–2 in PFL play to finish in third place.
The 2016 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were members of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 4–7, 3–5 in PFL play to finish in a two-way tie for seventh place.
The 2016–17 Morehead State Eagles men's basketball team represented Morehead State University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles, led by interim head coach Preston Spradlin, played their home games at Ellis Johnson Arena in Morehead, Kentucky as members of the East Division of the Ohio Valley Conference. The Eagles finished the season 14–16, 10–6 in OVC play to finish in second place in the East Division. In the OVC tournament they lost to Murray State in the quarterfinals.
The 1978 Morehead State Eagles football team was an American football team that represented Morehead State University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 1978 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their third year under head coach Wayne Chapman, the Eagles compiled a 2–6–1 record, finished in a three-way tie for five place in the OVC, and were outscored by a total of 206 to 145. The team played its home games at Jayne Stadium in Morehead, Kentucky.
The 2020 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Rob Tenyer and play their home games at Jayne Stadium. They competed as members of the Pioneer Football League.
The 2021 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2021 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Pioneer Football League. They were led by ninth-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium.
The 2022 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University as a member of the Pioneer Football League (PFL) during the 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Eagles were led by tenth-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium.
