Frontier Conference football returns in 10 days, and Monday the league unveiled its first preseason coaches’ poll as a 14-team, two-division mega-conference .

Dakota State (South Dakota), Dickinson State (North Dakota), Mayville State (North Dakota), Simpson (California), and Valley City State (North Dakota) are the Frontier’s newest members . All except the Simpson Red Hawks will participate in the East Division for 2025.

Montana Western (West) and Montana Tech (East), rival programs separated by 64 miles along I-15, were chosen by Frontier coaches to win respective divisions and earn automatic berths into the 20-team NAIA Football Championship Series.

The Bulldogs are two-time defending Frontier champions for the first time since 1994-95 and have claimed at least a share of the

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