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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.
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 (for football, the Football Championship Subdivision), primarily competing in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) since the 1948–49 academic year; [2] [3] while its football team competes ...
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The main reason for Division II and Division III schools to compete in Division I is that certain sports have either only a single division or only Divisions I and III. As a result of this, there are some D-II and III conferences with a conference championship in a sport that has only one or two NCAA divisions (e.g. bowling , men's volleyball ).
The WAC reinstated football at the FCS level for the fall 2021 season, coinciding with the arrival of four schools from the Southland Conference. UTRGV, currently a full WAC member without football, initially announced it would start an FCS football program no later than 2024, but made that an exhibition season before full varsity play in 2025.
Morehead State has had a total of seven former Eagles play in an NBA game. Xavier Moon is the most recent Morehead State alum to play in the NBA. Moon is currently in his third season with the Los Angeles Clippers, playing on a two-way contract with the Clippers and the NBA G League’s Ontario Clippers, as of the 2023–24 season.
Five institutions, all Division II members, fielded teams in a Division I sport for the first time in the 2024–25 school year. LeMoyne–Owen and Rockhurst added men's volleyball; Menlo , Roosevelt , and Vanguard , which played that sport in the NAIA in 2023–24, aligned fully with the NCAA.
Lone Star (Division II) Southland: Incarnate Word Cardinals [231] Football Lone Star (Division II) Division I FCS independent: Incarnate Word Cardinals [231] Men's soccer: Lone Star (Division II) Independent: Incarnate Word Cardinals [303] Men's and women's swimming & diving: Lone Star (Division II) CCSA: Lake Superior State Lakers: Men's ice ...