Missouri Tigers Football: Future SEC Schedule Rotation Announced
On Monday, the SEC announced a 12-year rotation of non-division opponents for football schedules through 2025.
What does this mean for the Missouri Tigers?
The athletic directors agreed to keep the 8 game conference schedule in which each side (East & West) will play their normal seven permanent opponents along with a non-division rotation team that will change each season.
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Example; Missouri will have their permanent games with Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, South Carolina and Tennessee. That was decided from the beginning when they placed Missouri in the East after joining the conference in 2012. Missouri will also rotate their other non-division team each year, and those schedules have been determined, starting in 2014.
MISSOURI’S NON-DIVISION OPPONENTS THROUGH 2025:
- 2014 at Texas A&M
- 2015 vs Mississippi State
- 2016 at LSU
- 2017 vs Auburn
- 2018 at Alabama
- 2019 vs Ole Miss
- 2020 at Mississippi State
- 2021 vs Texas A&M
- 2022 at Auburn
- 2023 vs LSU
- 2024 at Ole Miss
- 2025 vs Alabama
Yes, this does mean that Missouri will not face these teams in the regular season until those years unless, they meet in the SEC Championship game. Missouri is in lock with A&M for the third year in row but, will not have to see them again until 2021.
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It’ll also be a few seasons until the Missouri Tigers get tested against the big dogs of the west, LSU and Alabama. Given that I live in Baton Rouge, LA, I’m ready to see Missouri take on LSU and squash the smack talk.
The SEC West is significantly harder to win than the east, so Missouri being in the east, partnered with not having to face LSU or Alabama for a few years, could make for a few more trips to the SEC Championship for the Tigers.
Gary Pinkel and his Missouri Tigers are coming off a tremendous 2013 campaign, one in which they won their first SEC East title and winning the AT&T Cotton Bowl. Missouri’s schedule is favorable in 2014 but it is the SEC. Teams don’t re-build in this conference, they re-load.
It’s hard to predict how this season will turn out but we do know it will be fun to watch.
You can check out every team’s schedule here.
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