
The 2025 Tigers have already made program history even before the 2024 campaign has completed.
The SEC released all 16 teams’ 2025 schedules on Wednesday, and Mizzou’s is certainly unique.
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— Mizzou Football (@MizzouFootball) December 12, 2024
What was known prior to Wednesday was that the Tigers would open the season at home against Central Arkansas on Aug. 30 and would follow by hosting Kansas on Sept. 6. MU would also host Louisiana and UMass on Oct. 4 and Oct. 18, respectively, but even those dates changed when Mizzou’s full schedule was released on Wednesday night.
Here are some takeaways from MU’s 2025 slate, which will see the Tigers tear up Faurot Field for a long, long time to start the season.
Home, sweet home
For the first time in program history, Mizzou will play not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six home games to start the season. The Tigers won’t leave Missouri until the weekend of Oct. 18, when they play Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium in what will hopefully be a less clunky contest than the one in 2022.
Originally, Mizzou was supposed to play seven home games and five road games. However, one of those road games, a clash with Miami (OH) in Oxford, was bought out by MU for $750,000 in 2023 and was replaced with the game against Central Arkansas on Aug. 30.
At home, Mizzou has achieved great success on the gridiron over the past couple of years. The Tigers are 13-1 at Faurot Field since the start of the 2023 season; only Oregon (14-0), Georgia (13-0) and Washington (13-0) have better marks at home in that same timespan
Ending on the road
Naturally, a home-loaded first half of the schedule means a road-filled second half of the schedule, which is exactly the case here. Mizzou will play four of its last six regular season games on the road, including its final two for the first time since 2017.
MU will look to reverse a trend that plagued this year’s campaign, as its only three losses in 2024 came away from home.
An early Homecoming
With the original perceived dates of the Louisiana and UMass games being Oct. 4 and Oct. 18, respectively, it felt like one of those dates was ripe to be dubbed the annual Homecoming game.
Instead, the Homecoming game will take place on Sept. 27. It’ll mark the earliest Homecoming game in the history of Mizzou football, which dates back to 1911 when MU and Kansas tied 3-3. The earliest Homecoming game prior to next year will have come in 1974, when the Tigers took down No. 7 Arizona State 9-0.
For several decades, most Homecoming games at Mizzou have happened between Oct.13-30. This time around, the annual tradition could very well take place under warm weather.
Old rivalries rekindled
While Mizzou played Oklahoma last season, it’ll make its first trip to Norman since 2011. The Tigers haven’t won a non-forfeited game there since 1966 (OU defeated MU 17-6 in 1972, but the Tiger were retroactively given the win because Oklahoma used ineligible players). Mizzou is 0 for its last 17 at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
More notably, the loathed Jayhawks of Kansas will be coming to town for the first Border War on the gridiron since 2011. It will be the first matchup in Columbia since 2006, as the two teams played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City from 2007-11.
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