The St. Thomas Tommies have added the Sioux Falls Cougars to their 2024 football schedule, the school announced on Thursday.
St. Thomas will host Sioux Falls at O’Shaughnessy Stadium in St. Paul, Minn., during the weekend of August 29 through September 1, 2024 (Thursday through Sunday).
The Tommies then host two more contests at O’Shaughnessy Stadium. The Northern Iowa Panthers visit on Sept. 7, followed by the Black Hills State Yellow Jackets one week later on Sept. 14.
The non-conference slate for St. Thomas wraps up on Sept. 21 when St. Thomas travels to take on the Lindenwood Lions.
St. Thomas opens Pioneer Football League (PFL) play in 2024 at home against the Stetson Hatters on Oct. 5. Other PFL foes scheduled to visit St. Paul include San Diego on Oct. 26, Drake on Nov. 9 (Homecoming), and Dayton on Nov. 23.
The Tommies’ PFL road slate in 2024 includes Marist on Oct. 12, Valparaiso on Oct. 19, Morehead State on Nov. 2, and Butler on Nov. 16.
Below is St. Thomas’s complete schedule for the 2024 season, plus a link to their schedule page which will be updated with kickoff times and TV as they are announced:
2024 St. Thomas Football Schedule
- 08/31 – Sioux Falls
- 09/07 – Northern Iowa
- 09/14 – Black Hills State
- 09/21 – at Lindenwood
- 09/28 – OFF
- 10/05 – Stetson*
- 10/12 – at Marist*
- 10/19 – at Valparaiso*
- 10/26 – San Diego*
- 11/02 – at Morehead State*
- 11/09 – Drake*
- 11/16 – at Butler*
- 11/23 – Dayton*
* PFL contest.
St. Thomas finished the 2023 season 8-3 overall and 7-1 in PFL play. The Tommies are entering their 16th season under head coach Glenn Caruso, who has a 151-28 overall record at the school.
Anyone with predictions on when they advance from the PFL to the MVFC as a 12th team to fill the spot WIU left?
After Toledo and Buffalo join the AAC,
NDSU/SDSU both join the MAC,
Caruso departs to replace fired PJ Fleck,
3M agrees to sponsor all players thru NIL,
New coach Mike McCarthy takes the team to MVFC with an eye toward the Big20.
So, maybe two years.
I could see St. Thomas moving to scholarship FCS football. They’ve come to the PFL and really have been dominant. I live near Marist so I follow and attend PFL games, but usually, when teams do well they look to move up as Mercer and Campbell have done in recent years.
I’d like to see them stay in the PFL—-but college conference realignment is blowing up