On Tuesday, the Big South-OVC announced the conference slate for the 2024 football season. The Lions will play a total of eight games inside the conference.

The second-year of the joint Association features nine league teams each playing an eight-game conference schedule.  The league slate starts Saturday, Sept. 7, and Association games will primarily take place between Weeks 5 and 13, with one game apiece during Weeks 2 and 4.  Seven weeks will feature four Association matchups.

Five of the nine members -- Charleston Southern, Eastern Illinois, Gardner-Webb, Lindenwood and Western Illinois -- will play their Association games in succession.

Lindenwood will travel to Eastern Illinois on September 28 to open conference play. The next two games will be in St. Charles, Mo. as the Lions will host Tennessee State (October 5), and Charleston Southern (October 12) at Hunter Stadium. The following week, the Lions will head to Gardner Webb for a matchup with the Runnin' Bulldogs on October 19. On October 26, Lindenwood will welcome new conference member, Western Illinois. The next week, Lindenwood will head to Tennessee Tech. On November 9, SEMO will come to Hunter Stadium for the third annual MRV Banks Game Ball Brawl. After a bye week, the Lions will close out the season on November 23 at UT Martin.

Overall, the Lions will play 12 games in 2024, six being at Hunter Stadium in St. Charles, Mo. Stay tuned to lindenwoodlions.com for season ticket information which will be released in February. 

ABOUT THE BIG SOUTH-OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION
In February 2022, the Big South Conference and Ohio Valley Conference announced the creation of an association of their football member institutions, which began in the 2023 NCAA Division I football season and has an initial term of at least four years. The unique agreement combined the two conferences' football membership to ensure NCAA championship access and stability for the multisport conferences.  In creating the association, presidents from each of the multisport conferences pointed to the similarities of the OVC and the Big South, with their complementary geographies and intercollegiate athletic philosophies, as key to making this association possible.

Schools comprising the Association are Charleston Southern University (Charleston, SC), Eastern Illinois University (Charleston, IL), Gardner-Webb University (Boiling Springs, NC), Lindenwood University (St. Charles, MO), Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau, MO), Tennessee State University (Nashville, TN), Tennessee Technological University (Cookeville, TN), University of Tennessee at Martin (Martin, TN) and Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL).  For more information on the Big South-OVC Football Association, visit www.BigSouthOVCFootball.com.