Southeast Missouri announces 2025 football schedule

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., (KBSI) — Southeast Missouri’s 2025 football schedule features 12 games, including six home dates and a non-conference matchup against reigning FCS national champion North Dakota State.

The Redhawks open the season at Arkansas State on Aug. 30 and host North Alabama on Sept. 6 before traveling to Fargo, North Dakota, to face the Bison on Sept. 13.

SEMO wraps up non-conference play against Southern Illinois on Sept. 20, as part of the annual War for the Wheel during Family Weekend.

The Redhawks then begin their eight-game Ohio Valley Conference-Big South schedule at UT Martin on Sept. 27.

Other notable conference matchups include home games against Tennessee State, Eastern Illinois, Charleston Southern and Lindenwood, and road games at Tennessee Tech, Gardner-Webb and Western Illinois.

SEMO went 9-4 overall and 6-2 in the OVC-Big South last season, sharing the conference title with Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech and UT Martin.

The university is currently accepting deposits for football season tickets.