A Pioneer Football League occurs as college athletic conference which operates literally from coast to coast in the United States; it has member schools ranging from North Carolina and Florida in the east to California in the west. It participates in the NCAA's Division We-AA as a football-only conference. Unlike virtually all more Section I personally-AA conferences, a Pioneer League consists of institutions which see does'nt to award athletic scholarships ("grants-in-aid") to footballer; these institutions come occasionally (somewhat unofficially) known as "I-AAA" schools.

There are nine member schools, split into 2 divisions:

Northward Division Butler University University of Dayton Drake University University of San Diego Valparaiso University

To the south Division Austin Peay State University*Davidson College Jacksonville University Morehead State University

In April 8, 2005, Austin Peay announced that it would be allowing a Pioneer Football League fallowing a 2005 year & giving to scholarship-granting competition in the Ohio Valley Conference, within which it competes in more sports.

Football champions

Year	Champion	Conference Record
1993	Dayton	Five-0-0
1994	Dayton	Four-One-0
	Butler	Four-One-0
1995	Drake	Five-0-0
1996	Dayton	Five-0-0
1997	Dayton	Five-0-0
1998	Drake	Four-0
1999	Dayton	Four-0
2000	Dayton	Three-1
	Drake	Three-1
	Valparaiso	Three-1
2001	Dayton	Four-0
2002	Dayton	Four-0
2003	Valparaiso	Three-1
2004	Drake	Four-0

Beginning in the 2001 season, a Pioneer League Championship was determined by a postseason game between the teams by having the better record from either every section.

Championship games

Date	Champion	Score	Runner-Second best	Location
Nov. Seventeen, 2001	Dayton	46-14	Jacksonville	Dayton, OH
Nov. Xxiii, 2002	Dayton	28-0	Morehead State	Morehead, KY
Nov. Xxii, 2003	Valparaiso	54-42	Morehead State	Valparaiso, IN
Nov. Twenty, 2004	Drake	20-17	Morehead State	Morehead, KY