2012 OVC Football Championship
The OVC Football Championship was contested for the 65th time in 2012.
After finishing last in the OVC in 2011, Eastern Illinois finished the 2012 campaign with a 6-1 OVC mark to win its sixth OVC Championship (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012). Head coach Dino Babers became just the fourth football coach in OVC history to win the OVC Championship in his first year as a college head coach (joining Boots Donnelly, Jason Simpson and Dean Hood).
With the OVC Championship EIU erned the OVC's automatic berth into the Division I Football Championship; it will be the 14th appearance all-time for the Panthers in the Division I playoffs.