@ – Provisional NCAA Division II member The 2012 Missouri Western Griffons football team represented Missouri Western University during the 2012 NCAA Division II football season.

[1] The Griffons played their home games on Craig Field in Spratt Stadium in St. Joseph, Missouri, as they have done since 1970.

The Griffons were led by the sixteenth-year head coach, Jerry Partridge.

[2] Missouri Western has been a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association since 1989.

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