College football returns to Faurot Field in 100 days.
Spring practices wrapped up in Columbia all the way back in March. The transfer portal is closed to new entries. A bulk of Missouri football’s prospective high school recruits in the Class of 2026 will arrive on campus over the course of June and July.
Missouri is in the middle of a stretch that is as close as the sport gets to the offseason.
Players won’t report for fall camp until late July or early August. At some point between now and then, players will take part in offseason workouts, or what the NCAA calls “summer access” periods, which allow eight hours of team practice per week divided between film and on-field work. In the immediate future, the team announced a group of 60 players, coaches and staff members are in Jamaica on a one-week service trip.
It’s been a busy offseason for head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company. With multiple key players leaving due to graduation, replenishing the roster via the portal has been priority No. 1.
All is — relatively — quiet in the college football world.
So, of course, it’s prime time across the media landscape for far-too-early predictions and rankings. What else is there to do in May, after all?
And doing our duty, we ought to dissect those rankings, right? What else is there to do, after all?
With 100 days until the Tigers take the field Thursday, Aug. 28 to open the 2025 season against Central Arkansas, here is how the national media views Missouri:
Where is Missouri football ranked?
Look up some recent way-too-early polls, and there’s a pretty common theme for Mizzou in the post-spring, post-portal top-25 rankings.
ESPN, May 8: Unranked.
Saturday Down South, May 14: Unranked.
247Sports, May 5: Unranked,…
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