Fifty Pioneer Football League student-athletes have been selected to the 21st annual Academic All-PFL teams, as selected by the league’s sports information directors.

Sixty student athletes have been named to the 21st version of the All-Pioneer Football League squads. All selections were made by the league’s coaches, who were not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes.

San Diego quarterback Mason Mills, Marist defensive end Terrence Fede, Mercer quarterback John Russ, Stetson defensive back Donald Payne and Marist head coach Jim Parady were the recipients of the Pioneer Football League’s top honors in a vote of the league’s coaches.

Butler's first appearance in the NCAA Division I Football Championship came to an end at the hands of #17 Tennessee State, 31-0, at the Butler Bowl on Saturday. The loss snapped Butler's four-game homefield winning streak.

Butler, which won a share of the PFL title for the second consecutive year, becomes the first Pioneer Football League champion to appear in the Division I Football Championship after winning the league’s tiebreaker. The Bulldogs will host OVC at-large selection Tennessee State in a 1 p.m., Saturday contest at the Butler Bowl.