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There’s one opponent on the 2025 SEC schedule that the Alabama football hasn’t had much trouble with through the years.
Since the Missouri Tigers joined the SEC ahead of the 2012 season, Alabama has gone 5-0 against the Tigers. After posting a 42-10 victory in a heavy downpour at Faurot Field in Missouri’s first year as a conference foe, Alabama’s average margin of victory against the Tigers has been 28.6 points.
Even amid the ups and downs in coach Kalen DeBoer’s first season in Tuscaloosa last year, Alabama had no problem dispatching Missouri with a 34-0 shutout win at Bryant-Denny Stadium a week after their 24-17 loss at Neyland Stadium to Tennessee.
Despite being unranked in the preseason top 25 polls, Missouri was arguably the quietest 10-win program in Power Four in 2024. The Tigers reached double digits in wins after closing the season with a 27-24 victory over Iowa in the Music City Bowl. That came 12 months after defeating Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl to cap an 11-2 season.
Could coach Eli Drinkwitz’s team take it a step further and reach the 2025 College Football Playoff? At least one prominent analyst believes so. On the Thursday edition of “The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast,” the Fox Sports commentator tabbed Missouri as one of four CFP “party crashers” in 2025.
In Klatt’s view, Missouri gets the preseason nod over Oklahoma and Auburn as the SEC team that could “come out of nowhere” to snag an at-large spot in the playoff.
“They have been highly successful over the last couple of years,” Klatt said of Missouri. “They’ve recruited well. Drinkwitz has a culture at Missouri, and I’m a fan of Beau Pribula. I know that they haven’t settled on a quarterback yet, but I saw him at Penn State last year. Hard for them to keep him off the field at Penn State.”
Pribula was the Nittany Lions’ backup who…
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Publish date : 2025-08-15 17:32:00
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