HELENA, Mont. - The Frontier Conference released its 2025 football schedule today. Beginning in Fall 2025, the 14 football playing schools will be divided into East and West Divisions each established with seven teams.

The Frontier Conference - East Division will be as follows in alphabetical order by institution: Dakota State University (Madison, S. Dakota), Dickinson State University (Dickinson, N. Dakota), Mayville State University (Mayville, N. Dakota), Montana State University - Northern (Havre), Montana Technological University (Butte, Mont.), Rocky Mountain College (Billings, Mont.) and Valley City State University (Valley City, N. Dakota).

The Frontier Conference - West Division will be as follows in alphabetical order by institution: Arizona Christian University (Glendale, Ariz.), Carroll College (Helena, Mont.), College of Idaho (Caldwell, Idaho), Eastern Oregon University (La Grande, Ore.), Simpson University (Redding, Calif.), Southern Oregon University (Ashland, Ore.), and University of Montana Western (Dillon, Mont.).

The assignment of divisions is consistent with the NAIA's approach to allocating automatic berths to its Football Championship Series for postseason qualification. Both the East and West divisions of the Frontier Conference will be granted one automatic qualifying berth beginning in Fall 2025 along with the opportunity to claim one or more at-large berths. The best six-game record within each division will claim the corresponding automatic qualifying berth.

"We are looking forward to joining the frontier conference. This will be one of, if not, the best league in the country," said head coach Rocky Larson. "We are looking forward to playing some teams that we have never played with Arizona Christian being our home opener. Our conference opener will be in California which will be a great experience for our student athletes. We are also glad we get to keep the local North Star games like we have had in the past but only playing each one of them once."

Mayville State Comets Football has 10 games scheduled for the 2025 season, 4 of which will be at home. See below the Comets full schedule:

• Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025 - at Concordia Moorhead
• Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025 - at Nebraska Wesleyan
• Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 - at Simpson
• Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025 - Arizona Christian
• Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 - Dickinson State (East Division)
• Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 - at Valley City State (East Division)
• Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 - MSU-Northern (East Division)
• Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 - at Montana Tech (East Division)
• Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025 - Dakota State (East Division)
• Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 - at Rocky Mountain (East Division)

For full press release information visit: https://fcsports.org/news/2024/12/18/frontier-conference-releases-2025-football-schedule.aspx