Ten-time Pioneer Football League champion Dayton has been tapped as the preseason favorite in the league’s preseason coaches’ poll, receiving four of 10 possible first-place votes. The league’s coaches expect a repeat of the 2009 season which came do… more »

ST. LOUIS - After a four year relationship between the Pioneer Football League and Northeast Conference, the Gridiron Classic will cease to exist according to information provided to College Sporting News writer Jason Plotkin. The Gridiron Classic wa… more »

The Drake football team has selected seniors Andrew Asbell, Ben Morrison, Steve Platek, and Dain Taylor as its captains for the 2010 season. Taylor was an all-Pioneer Football League selection at defensive end last season after leading the league in… more »

Moorehead and Hunt awarded Drake honored the success of its student-athletes on Sunday (May 9) during the second annual Bulldog student-athlete appreciation luncheon at the Knapp Center. Twenty-three student-athletes were presented with awards, in… more »

Drake’s spring football practice will be raised a notch when the Bulldogs hold their first spring scrimmage this morning. It will be the first time that the players will be in full pads. “It’s the first chance we’ve had to tackle and be tackled while… more »

When spring football practice begins at Drake Tuesday, third-year head coach Chris Creighton is looking for the team to build on its chemistry that led the Bulldogs to a third-place finish in the Pioneer Football League last season. “We need to conti… more »

Neal Neathery spent Tuesday house hunting with his wife. He’ll begin teaching his new unit how to hunt for quarterbacks following his hiring as UTSA’s defensive coordinator. Neathery, 39, becomes the seventh assistant to join head coach Larry Coker.… more »

The Pioneer Football League announced that 395 football student-athletes from its 10 member institutions were named to the league’s Academic Honor Roll for the Fall 2009 semester. Four member schools boasted 40 or more student-athletes on the honor r… more »

Campbell University's football team will spend plenty of time in airports and on buses this season, with trips scheduled to Iowa (Des Moines), upstate New York (Poughkeepsie) and Indiana (Valparaiso). And that's just its conference schedule. Toss… more »

If there's one thing Steve Platek has learned playing football at Drake, it's adjusting to change. Platek went from quarterback in high school in Arlington Heights, Ill., to playing defense at Drake. He switched back to offense last season when new c… more »

For the fourth consecutive season, the Pioneer Football League’s coaches have tabbed San Diego as the preseason favorite in the PFL Preseason Coaches’ Poll, receiving only five of 10 possible first-place votes. While San Diego was picked to win, the… more »

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Will it be the cagey and elusive senior at San Diego, the strong-armed sophomore from Jacksonville, or some other quarterback that lifts his team to the 2009 Pioneer Football League crown? Few FCS conferences put a… more »

Drake University, like Missouri State, plays in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly NCAA Division I-AA) -- but with a major difference. Drake's football program does not award athletic scholarships. While technically eligible for the FCS… more »

DES MOINES, IOWA - Second-year Drake football coach Chris Creighton likes what he has seen so far after the completion of week one of spring football practice. "The first week always flies by," said Creighton, whose team posted a 6-5 record last fall… more »

Throughout his high school football career, Jordan Boykin has powered past his opponents with his strength and size. But this fall, the Crawfordsville senior wide receiver can consider himself a Flyer. Boykin made his decision official Monday and… more »