Perennial national championship-contending Grand Valley State football prepares for its 2024 season with some changes on the horizon.

In first-year coach Scott Wooster’s first trip to the NCAA Division II football playoffs as the head coach of Grand Valley State, he’ll lead the Lakers into a type of game this weekend they’ve rarely (if ever) seen before.

After a pair of nail-biting wins at home, the Grand Valley State Lakers will hit the road for the first time in the playoffs, where a win would put them into the Division II national semifinals.

Grand Valley State Football did something no team, including the Lakers, has been able to do in two years on Nov. 18.

Potential playoff teams at the NCAA Division II Football level will learn their fate on Nov. 12 when the NCAA reveals the 2023 Division II Football Playoff Bracket.

The final week of the NCAA Division II Football regular season is here and there’s still a lot of figure out before 6 p.m. EST on Nov. 12 when the 28 playoff teams are selected.

All eyes in Division II college football will be on Davenport, Michigan this week as No. 9 Davenport Football hosts defending national champion and No. 7-ranked Ferris State in a game that could help decide the GLIAC championship.

Hours after Davenport Football rallied to stay undefeated in GLIAC play, Grand Valley State, with program legend Brian Kelly at Lubbers Stadium, kept pace against Michigan Tech on Oct. 28.

Grand Valley State Football moved into the top-3 of the latest NCAA Division II football rankings after its 73-14 win over Northern Michigan in Week 7.

With three weeks left in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference season, there’s a little bit of clarity as the season winds down, with two simple scenarios that would make for the easiest end to the season. And, with it, playoff seeding.

The GLIAC schedule hits the home stretch, with just four weeks of games to go in the regular season, and as few as three conference games left for some schools.

Symbolism can be found in the Anchor Bone Trophy first being used to represent the Ferris State-Grand Valley State football rivalry in 2002. That was the first season in which one of the two programs claimed the NCAA Div. II national championship, with a combined six titles won between the Bulldogs and Lakers in two decades since.

Ferris State, the two-time defending NCAA Division II national champion and the No. 1 team in the latest AFCA Top 25 Poll, will make the 71-mile trip south to Allendale, Michigan, for a Week 7 conference showdown against No. 7-ranked Grand Valley State.

At 6-foot-5-inches and 295 pounds, the GLIAC may not see a bigger man in the endzone this season than Grand Valley State University's Jordan Davis.

Coming into the 2022 season, it was easy to overlook the Davenport Panthers, a young program that hadn’t experienced a ton of success and had never been much of a threat in the GLIAC or for the postseason.