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Yes, I’m sticking my neck on the line and attempting to predict the future ahead of Missouri football’s 2024 season, which kicks off with a game against Murray State at 7 p.m. Thursday on Faurot Field in Columbia.
So, here are four bold predictions for the upcoming season, ranging from playoff aspirations to individual accomplishments:
Missouri football goes 11-1, hosts a playoff game
Yes, this means that come Sunday, Dec. 8 — when the College Football Playoff committee logs its final 12-team field — that Mizzou will be between the No. 5 and 8-seeded team in the nation.
How do the Tigers get there?
Win the games they’re expected to win — with favorable spreads coming in nine, maybe 10 games — and then knock off Oklahoma at home and either Texas A&M or Alabama on the road. An 11-1 record does the trick.
That’s not a task too tall for a team, on paper, this talented.
South Carolina will end someone’s CFP dreams. Auburn could be a messy, pre-noon homecoming matchup. Are Arkansas and Mississippi State as bad as the common consensus seems to predict? We’ll see.
But I don’t think any are getting the better of this Missouri team. We’re chalking the loss up in Alabama, and predicting MU to take care of business versus the Sooners and at the Aggies.
Would that be enough for a trip to Atlanta and the SEC Championship, too? It’d certainly be close.
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FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS – NOVEMBER 24: Head Coach Eli Drinkwitz of the Missouri Tigers watches his team warm up before the game against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium on November 24, 2023 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
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