List of Ohio Valley Conference football champions


This is a list of yearly regular season champions in college football of the National Collegiate Athletic Association FCS Ohio Valley Conference. Fifteen different teams have won a championship in the seven decade history of the OVC; every team that plays in the conference has won at least one conference championship.

Football conference champions

SeasonChampionRecord
19483–1
19483–1
19493–1–1
19505–0–1
19515–1
19524–1
1952Western Kentucky4–1
19535–0
19545–0
19555–0
19565–0
19575–0
19585–1
19585–1
19595–0–1
19595–0–1
19606–0
19616–0
19624–2
19624–2
19624–2
19624–2
1963Western Kentucky7–0
19646–1
19657–0
19666–1
19675–0–2
19687–0
1969East Tennessee State6–0–1
1970Western Kentucky5–1–1
1971Western Kentucky5–2
19727–0
1973Western Kentucky7–0
19746–1
19756–1
1975Western Kentucky †6–1
19766–1
19776–1
1978Western Kentucky6–0
19796–0
1980Western Kentucky6–1
19818–0
19827–0
19836–1
19846–1
19857–0
19866–1
19866–1
19875–1
19875–1
19886–0
19896–0
19905–1
19905–1
19917–0
19928–0
19938–0
19948–0
19958–0
19968–0
19977–0
19986–1
19997–0
2000Western Kentucky7–0
20016–1
2002 Eastern Illinois5–1
20025–1
20037–1
20047–1
20058–0
20067–1
20066–1
20078–0
20087–1
20096–2
2010Southeast Missouri State7–1
2011Tennessee Tech6–2
2011Eastern Kentucky6–2
2011Jacksonville State6–2
2012Eastern Illinois6–1
2013Eastern Illinois8–0
2014Jacksonville State8–0
2015Jacksonville State8–0
2016Jacksonville State8–0
2017Jacksonville State8–0
2018Jacksonville State7–1
2019Austin Peay7–1
2019Southeast Missouri State7–1

† Both the OVC and Tennessee Tech list Tennessee Tech as champion, while Western Kentucky with a head-to-head victory over Tennessee Tech claims this as a co-championship.

Championships by team

Bold indicates an outright conference championship.
Italics indicates a school no longer competing in the Ohio Valley Conference.
† Claimed as a co-championship by WKU, but not recognized by the Ohio Valley Conference.