The Southeastern Conference announced the schedule format for the 2025 football season on Wednesday.
Similar to next season, the Missouri Tigers will play eight games against SEC rivals in 2025, four of which will be played in Columbia, Missouri, and the remaining four games will be played as a guest team.
Mizzou's SEC opponents and locations for the 2025 season are:
House
- alabama crimson tide
- mississippi state bulldogs
- south carolina sham cox
- Texas A&M Aggies
away
- arkansas razorbacks
- auburn tigers
- oklahoma sooners
- Vanderbilt Commodores
“We continue to monitor changes across college sports related to future schedules,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement. “Continuing with the current format for the 2025 season will give us additional time to understand the impact of the changes happening around us as we determine the appropriate long-term plan for the SEC football schedule. Masu.”
Dates and times for those games have not yet been announced, but it was also reported on Wednesday that the SEC Network could delay kickoff times as early as the 2024 season.
“For an all-day SEC football atmosphere, we are now able to delay the game start time on the SEC Network by 45 minutes, allowing for a more staggered finish. That means kickoff times from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Central Time. ),” said John Talty of 247 Sports. writes Alex Scarborough. “A typical SEC Network schedule would look like this: 11:45 a.m. CT, 3:15 p.m. CT, 6:45 p.m. CT, but ABC and ESPN's Games will maintain their regular start times, the SEC and ESPN can change ABC, and ESPN afternoon and evening games will be limited in number per school.”
Nevertheless, the 2025 season won't be long, so Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz and the team will be looking to improve on last season's historic start with a win over Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl and a No. 8 overall finish. We aim to further accelerate our success soon.
The annual College Football Playoff's four-team format officially expanded to 12 teams this offseason, and the Tigers are working hard to earn a spot. However, this could be a challenge as eight players have declared for the NFL Draft.
That being said, we got an inside glimpse into the future of Missouri football at the annual Black and Gold Spring Game last Saturday.
