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Association of Mid-Continent Universities football

Association of Mid-Continent Universities football
(AMCU)
Established 1978
Dissolved 1984
Association NCAA
Division Division II (1978–1980)
Division I-AA (1981–1984)
Members 4 (final), 7 (total)
Sports fielded 1 (football) (men's: 1; women's: 0)
Region Midwest
Former names Mid-Continent Athletic Association
1978 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Youngstown State $^ 5 0 0     10 2 0
Akron 4 1 0     6 5 0
Eastern Illinois ^ 3 2 0     12 2 0
Northern Michigan 1 3 1     5 4 1
Western Illinois 1 3 1     3 6 1
Northern Iowa 0 5 0     2 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division II playoff participant
1979 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Youngstown State $^ 5 0 0     11 2 0
Northern Iowa 4 1 0     6 5 0
Akron 3 2 0     6 5 0
Eastern Illinois 1 4 0     7 4 0
Northern Michigan 1 4 0     4 6 0
Western Illinois 1 4 0     3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division II playoff participant
1980 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Eastern Illinois $^ 4 0 0     7 4 0
Northern Michigan 3 1 0     9 2 0
Northern Iowa 2 2 0     7 4 0
Youngstown State 1 3 0     2 8 1
Western Illinois 0 4 0     4 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division II playoff participant
1981 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Eastern Illinois + 2 1 0     7 4 0
Western Illinois + 2 1 0     5 6 0
Northern Iowa + 2 1 0     7 4 0
Southwest Missouri State 0 3 0     3 5 2
  • + – Conference co-champions
1982 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Eastern Illinois + 2 0 1     11 1 1
Northern Iowa + 2 0 1     4 6 1
Southwest Missouri State 1 2 0     5 6 0
Western Illinois 0 3 0     2 8 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
1983 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Eastern Illinois $ 3 0 0     9 3 0
Southwest Missouri State 2 1 0     6 5 0
Northern Iowa 1 2 0     6 5 0
Western Illinois 0 3 0     3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1984 Mid-Continent football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Eastern Illinois + 2 1 0     6 5 0
Northern Iowa + 2 1 0     9 2 0
Southwest Missouri State 1 1 1     6 3 1
Western Illinois 0 2 1     6 4 1
  • + – Conference co-champions

The Association of Mid-Continent Universities football was a part of the college athletic conference which operated in the midwestern United States. It participated in NCAA Division II until moving to NCAA Division I-AA (now known as Division I FCS) in 1981.

The conference was founded as the Mid-Continent Athletic Association in 1977 and commenced official operations on July 1, 1978. It was originally an NCAA Division II conference. The founding members of the Mid-Continent Athletic Association football were Akron, Eastern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Northern Michigan, Western Illinois, and Youngstown State. Wayne State also expressed interest in joining the conference. After the 1979 season Akron and Youngstown State left. After the 1980 season Northern Michigan left, then starting with the 1981 season Southwest Missouri State (now known as Missouri State) joined the conference. In 1982 the Association of Mid-Continent Universities started sponsoring football. What is currently called The Summit League studied sponsoring football once more in 2010.

NCAA Division II National Football Championship

Football was sponsored by the conference from 1978–84. The final four members of the conference went on to join the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, a women's sports conference that took on football as its only men's sport. After the women's side of the Gateway merged into the Missouri Valley Conference in 1992, the football side remained in operation as the Gateway Football Conference, which became the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2008.


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