KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced its week-by-week composite schedule for the 2025 NCAA Division II football season. All 10 MIAA teams will begin their 2025 campaigns against non-conference opponents – six of which appear in the final Division II top 25 rankings of the 2024 season.
The 2025 MIAA football season will officially kick off on Thursday, August 28, with the final regular season contests scheduled for Saturday, November 15. The 12-week schedule currently features 108 games with 90 MIAA matchups and 18 NCAA Division II non-conference contests. Central Missouri and Northwest Missouri have open dates remaining to schedule non-conference contests.
"MIAA football teams will certainly be prepared and battle-tested for next year's NCAA Division II football playoffs,” said Commissioner Mike Racy. "The non-conference schedule alone features 15 different Division II opponents in the first three weeks of the season, which includes six that were ranked in the American Football Coaches Association’s final top 25 poll in 2024.”
“This is why the MIAA pushed so hard for the passing of Week Zero,” added Racy. “We have the opportunity each fall to present these types of top-rated, non-conference football matchups, and MIAA teams aren’t going to pass on that opportunity.”
No. 17-ranked Pittsburg State will open its 2025 season in Big Rapids, Mich., on August 28 to face the NCAA Division II defending national champion and top-ranked Ferris State Bulldogs from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). The Gorillas will then travel to Edmond, Okla., to take on the defending MIAA champion, No. 9 Central Oklahoma before hosting their home opener on Saturday, September 13, against No. 6-ranked Grand Valley State, also a GLIAC member.
Fort Hays State also opens its 2025 season with back-to-back top 25 opponents. The Tigers are set to host No. 20 Angelo State from the Lone Star Conference (LSC) on Thursday, August 28 before traveling to Pueblo, Colo., to face No. 8 Colorado State-Pueblo out of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).
After taking on the Tigers in Hays, No. 20 Angelo State will host Emporia State on Saturday, September 6 in San Angelo, Texas. The Hornets open their 2025 season at home against Minot State from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) on August 28.
Central Missouri is set to open its season against No. 8 Colorado State-Pueblo. After hosting Fort Hays State, the ThunderWolves travel to Warrensburg, Mo., to take on the Mules under the lights on Thursday, September 11.
Northwest Missouri will also open its season against a top-ten-ranked team as the Bearcats travel to Mankato, Minn., to take on No. 7-ranked Minnesota State from the NSIC on August 28.
Washburn hosts back-to-back opponents in Topeka, Kan., to open the 2025 season. The Ichabods will welcome Truman State from the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) on Saturday, August 30, before hosting Northwest Missouri on Saturday, September 6. Washburn then travels to Golden, Colo., to take on the RMAC’s Colorado School of Mines on Saturday, September 13.
Missouri Western and Nebraska Kearney both open the season on the road against tough, non-conference opponents. The Griffons will travel to Sioux Falls, S.D., to take on No. 25-ranked Augustana from the NSIC while the Lopers face Wayne State, also out of the NSIC, in Wayne, Neb., on Thursday, August 28.
The 2025 football season kicks off with MIAA Football Media Day on Friday, July 25, at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center in Kansas City, Mo. MIAA head coaches and student-athletes will travel to Kansas City to participate in 15-minute press conferences which will be broadcast live, exclusively on
The MIAA Network.
All 18 non-conference matchups in the 2025 football season are listed below. To view the week-by-week schedule for the 2025 MIAA season,
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2025 GAMES AGAINST NON-CONFERENCE OPPONENTS:
WEEK ZERO [August 28/30]
Central Oklahoma at UT Permian Basin
Missouri Western at Augustana
Northwest Missouri at Minnesota State, Mankato
Nebraska Kearney at Wayne State
Pittsburg State at Ferris State
Angelo State at Fort Hays State
Minot State at Emporia State
Midwestern State at Missouri Southern
Truman State at Washburn
WEEK ONE [September 4/6]
Fort Hays State at Colorado-Pueblo
Chadron State at Nebraska Kearney
Emporia State at Angelo State
Missouri Southern at Southwest Baptist
WEEK TWO [September 11/13]
Colorado-Pueblo at Central Missouri
Missouri S&T at Missouri Western
Grand Valley State at Pittsburg State
Washburn at Colorado School of Mines
WEEK EIGHT [October 25]
Northeastern State at Central Oklahoma