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Matt Kupec: This Week In Missouri Valley Conference
Football
Pre-Season Look at the MVC: Conference Rankings

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Matt Kupec: This Week In Missouri Valley Conference
Football
Pre-Season Look at the Football Championship Subdivison
National Rankings
North Dakota State again begins the season
Ranked the #1 team in Football Championsip
Subdivision. NDS has captured seven of the
last eight FCS Football Championships.
The Missouri Valley Conference looks to be
the top conference in the FCS this year.
Five teams from the MVC are ranked in
the top #25. Here are the conference
rankings:
 MVC 5 teams
 Colonial 5 teams
 Big Sky 4 teams
 Southland 3 teams
 Southern 2 teams
 OVC 2 teams
 Southern 1 team
 MEAC 1 team
 IVY 1 team
 Patriot 1 team

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Matt Kupec: This Week In Missouri Valley Conference
Football
Pre-Season Look at the MVC: SIU Football Schedule
 The SIU Salukis football schedule is
one of the toughest in the Football
Championship Subdivision.
 The schedule includes games against
two FBS teams (Umass and Arkansas
st.)
 And games against 5 nationally
ranked FCS teams –
#1 North Dakota State
#4 South Dakota State
#11 Illinois State
#16 Indiana State
#17 Southeast Missouri State,
#20 Northern Iowa.

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Matt Kupec: This Week In Missouri Valley Conference
Football
About the Author
 Matt Kupec is a fundraising professional with 32 years of significant higher
education development experience. He has directed three major university
fundraising campaigns and nearly $5 billion has been raised under his leadership.
He has led the fundraising programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Hofstra University, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and
HelpMeSee, a New York City based non-profit. He is currently serving as Senior
In-House Fundraising Counsel for Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
 Matt is a former record-breaking four year starting quarterback for the UNC Tar
Heels. During his career he set 19 season and career passing records. Two of
which still stand — most consecutive games with a TD pass and most wins as a
starting QB. Matt also set the ACC record for TD passes his senior year at UNC.
Matt was named MVP of the 1977 Liberty Bowl and the 1979 Gator Bowl
becoming the 1st player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to be named MVP of
two bowl games.