Eli Hoff

COLUMBIA, Mo. — What do you call the run-up to talking season? We’re in the preamble to Southeastern Conference media days — those are about a week and a half

The Aggies' challenge entering 2026 feels a lot like Missouri's heading into 2024: sustaining success after a breakout season.

Missouri and Mississippi have only played twice since the former joined the SEC, but several players have moved between the programs.

Ryan Silverfield, whose Memphis team Missouri beat in 2023, has taken over the Razorbacks.

The last couple of times Missouri has played football at Arkansas, Fayetteville has hosted some dead rubber matches. Mizzou athletics beat writer

For the Texas Longhorns, this season would be a great season to have a great season. At least if the program wants to win anything of significance with the 21st century's most vaunted quarterback prospect, anyway.

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By this time next week, Missouri's turn on the Southeastern Conference media days dais will have come and gone.

The toughest stretch of Missouri's 2026 football schedule, at least on paper, is a two-week stretch in early November.

There are plenty of middling and poor college football programs that have looked at the sudden success of Indiana and pondered some version of the question “why can't we do that?”