The SMS Bears will be looking to move to 4-0 for the first time since 1989, but it will take a win at I-A Tulsa to stay perfect. The Bears are 0-6 all-time against the Golden Hurricane. This season, the Gateway is 0-6 against I-A teams. The Gateway has 24 I-A wins since 1985, which includes at least one I-A win every year since 1995. [...]

This week’s Gateway Players of the Week are QB Yance Vaughan of Illinois State; LB Charles Thompson of Western Kentucky; LB LaDrelle Bryant of Indiana State; and OL Buster Ashley of Western Kentucky. Offensive QB Yance Vaughan, Illinois State Sr., 6-3, 210, Ada (Okla.) High Vaughan rallied the Redbirds from a 10-point deficit late in the fourth quarter over Eastern Illinois and finished with three [...]

Southwest Missouri State shut out visiting Union College, 45-0, to improve to 3-0 on the season and remain the only unbeaten team in the Gateway Conference. Meanwhile, the league swept the Ohio Valley Conference in three games to improve to 5-0 this season in the challenge series between the two conferences. In all, the league went 5-3 on Saturday, falling twice against top-25 teams. In [...]

New Hampshire quarterback Ricky Santos, Towson defensive back Allante Harrison, Norfolk State linebacker Kevin Talley and Indiana State kicker Kyle Hooper have been honored as national I-AA players of the week by The Sports Network, the division’s most widely recognized information service. Santos threw for 385 yards and tied a school record with five touchdown passes as New Hampshire upset I-A Rutgers, 35-24. Talley set [...]

Western Kentucky visits Eastern Kentucky this Saturday in the 81st meeting between the two schools. Western leads the series, 44-33-3, which includes a 36-3 Hilltopper win last year. Eastern, though, holds a 20-12-2 advantage in games in Richmond, Ky. The game can be seen on FSN Midwest, FSN South and Fox College Sports (digital). Blake Fulton (play by play), Pat Sperduto (color) and Keeli Davidson [...]

For the first time in league history, the Gateway has a repeat Offensive Player of the Year and a repeat Defensive Player of the Year honoree in the same season, as QB Russ Michna and LB Boomer Grigsby successfully defended their 2002 individual honors by earning 2003 Gateway Conference top player awards. Additionally, Jerry Kill – a finalist for Eddie Robinson national coach of the [...]

Thirty-three student-athletes, including 12 who earned first-team honors, highlight the 2003 Gateway Conference all-academic team, announced by the league office today. Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.00 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale). Student-athletes must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at their institutions (freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year [...]

The Waiting Game: The Gateway has four post-season eligible teams and won’t find out until the NCAA I-AA football committee makes its selections on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 12 noon CST on ESPNews. No league has ever received four bids into the I-AA field. Title Town In the league’s 19 seasons, UNI has won or shared the title a league-best 11 times. This year marked [...]

A Southern Illinois victory, coupled with a UNI loss has given the unbeaten Salukis their first Gateway Football Conference title in the league’s 19th season. SIU became the first Gateway team to start a season 10-0 with a 24-17 victory against Youngstown State. Southern Illinois tied for sixth last year in the league race at 2-5 (4-8 overall), and the Salukis were picked sixth in [...]

Southern Illinois is enjoying its best season since becoming a Gateway member 19 years ago, and the Salukis take their perfect 8-0 record to face the defending national champion, Western Kentucky, in Bowling Green. SIU (at No. 3), leads a list of four Gateway teams that are ranked this week, including UNI (6), Western Kentucky (7), and Western Illinois (12).

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