Fans of the Northwest Missouri State University football team have the opportunity to relive some of the Bearcats' most memorable wins when KXCV-KRNW airs "Bearcat Classics" on Saturday afternoons this fall.
With the 2020 Bearcat football season postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, KXCV-KRNW, Northwest's award-winning National Public Radio affiliate and the flagship of the Bearcat Radio Network, will kick off the series Sept. 12. The station will broadcast games from 1 to 4 p.m. on KXCV 90.5 and KRNW 88.9 and follow a structure similar to live game broadcasts with pregame, halftime and postgame shows featuring interviews with former Bearcat student-athletes.
The first week features Northwest's 2010 win at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg when Todd Adolf kicked a game-winning field goal as time expired. The latter portion of the schedule airs five of Northwest's six NCAA Division II football national championships, culminating with Northwest's remarkable four-overtime victory against Carson-Newman in 1999.
"These are some of the greatest Bearcat football games from the last 20 years, including five national championship games, four double-digit comebacks and two overtime victories," said Matt Tritten, who teams with John Coffey on Bearcat Radio broadcasts and works with KXCV-KRNW as an underwriting sales associate. "The games include regular season nail-biters, record-setting playoff games and national titles."