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In less than a week, Missouri football stars Luther Burden III, Brady Cook and Kristian Williams will represent the Tigers at SEC Media Days in Dallas.
In less than a month, they’ll report with their Tigers teammates for preseason camp.
And in 50 days, Mizzou will kickoff its 2024 season Thursday, Aug. 29 on Faurot Field against Murray State — a season seemingly bursting with potential for Eli Drinkwitz’s team.
Mizzou is coming off the back of an 11-2 campaign that was capped with a Cotton Bowl win over Ohio State and a top-10 ranking in the end-of-year polls. Another run like that, and the Tigers would be primed for a berth into the College Football Playoff as it expands to 12 teams for the first time.
The schedule appears to set up favorably, with MU either playing at home in Columbia, a team it beat last season or an opponent with a new head coach in 2024 in each of its SEC games this season.
But among those are a few, as you’d expect, extremely difficult tests.
One of those shapes up to come in College Station, Texas, where the Tigers will face a new-look Texas A&M team in MU’s fifth game of the season, which is part of the Week 6 slate.
Here’s what you need to know about the Aggies as they enter a new era:
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Author : Columbia Daily Tribune
Publish date : 2024-07-10 08:06:22
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