What we learned about Missouri football through 3 fall camp practices

Three days of practice are down, and Missouri football has taken its first break.

Preseason camp is underway in Columbia, and the Tigers are less than 20% of their way through the 18 official practices on the calendar before the team transitions into gameweek preparations after Tuesday, Aug. 19. Thursday was an off day for Missouri, according to their camp schedule.

That makes it incredibly early in camp, but there are some notes and developments to know with Mizzou’s first game of the season now less than four weeks away. Central Arkansas is set to arrive in town Thursday, Aug. 28 for the opener on Faurot Field.

With three practices down, here’s what we’ve learned about Mizzou’s key position battles.

Missouri football QB battle still in the balance

Through three practices, Beau Pribula and Sam Horn have each been given an equal share of the reps mostly closely compatible with what would resemble a starter.

The QBs had a day apiece repping with center Connor Tollison, and then split the Day 3 reps down the middle. Trying to extrapolate meaning from the order of operations with skill position players would mean reading into something that isn’t there.

This week is going to be split 50/50 for the quarterbacks, barring a major weekend surprise. That’s what head coach Eli Drinkwitz said it would be like, and that has played out so far.

What will be interesting is if there is any separation after this weekend. Drinkwitz promised equal opportunity for Week 1 and Week 1 alone. He said one bad day wasn’t going to decide the race, “but two might.” 

Has there been a standout performance, good or bad, behind closed doors? We might begin to get clues of which way Mizzou is leaning in the not-too-distant future.

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