Missouri State is moving up to the highest tier of Division I college football and joining Conference USA in 2025. The conference and school announced the move.
Missouri State will move up to the highest tier of Division I college football and join Conference USA in 2025, the league announced Friday.
Missouri State will become the 12th full member of CUSA and the third school to move up from the Championship Subdivision to the Bowl Subdivision and join the league over the next two seasons.Missouri State is a longtime member of the Missouri Valley Conference and has been competing in FCS/I-AA since 1981. The Bears have reached the NCAA playoffs four times, including most recently in 2020 and ’21 under then-coach Bobby Petrino.
“The institution boasts a great tradition in athletics and academics that will strengthen and further position our membership for long term success in the national landscape,” CUSA Commissioner Judy MacLeod said. Conference USA lost six members to the American Athletic Conference and have rebuilt by adding former independents such as Liberty and New Mexico State and former FCS schools Sam Houston State and Jacksonville State last year.Russo has been the national college football writer for The Associated Press for two decades. He is a native New Yorker.
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