Austin Peay Governors

The Austin Peay Governors bring scrappy, hard-nosed football to Clarksville, Tennessee, representing an FCS program that has found renewed success in recent years. After decades in the Ohio Valley Conference, the Govs have become a rising power in the United Athletic Conference. Fans know the program for its resilience and its recent surge of championship-caliber teams. It's a program on the upswing, building real momentum at the FCS level.

Austin Peay first fielded a football team in 1930 and spent most of the 20th century in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Governors have won conference championships in 1977, 2019, 2022, and 2023, with the two most recent titles coming after the program's move to the ASUN Conference and then the United Athletic Conference. That recent stretch represents the most successful era in program history, following years as a middle-of-the-pack OVC member. Austin Peay's steady climb has made it one of the FCS's notable recent success stories.