Arkansas vs. Missouri

Arkansas and Missouri have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1906; officially, Missouri leads 12–⁠4; as played, 13–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Missouri 9–⁠1, and Missouri has won the last 4. The winner takes home the Battle Line Trophy, played for since 2015. Missouri has held it since the 2022 game. The NCAA vacated Missouri’s win (2016); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played.

Official series
Missouri leads 12–⁠4
Arkansas wins on file
4
Missouri wins on file
13
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1906
Longest streak
5 Missouri
Current streak
4 Missouri
Last 10 meetings
Missouri 9–⁠1
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1940s1–⁠0
1960s0–⁠1
2000s1–⁠1
2010s1–⁠5
2020s1–⁠5
Average margin
12.9 points; 8 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Arkansas
2–⁠5 Arkansas’s record at home
At Missouri
7–⁠1 Missouri’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠1 Arkansas first
Shutouts
2

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Battle Line Trophy

Played for since
2015
Held by
Missouri since the 2022 game
Games for it on file
11 Arkansas 2, Missouri 9

Who holds it comes from the games on file: the winner of the latest regular-season meeting since 2015 (bowl rematches aren’t played for it); a tie leaves it with the holder (the usual rule; the article doesn’t say). The rivalry’s article counts the games for it: Missouri leads, 10–⁠2. From Wikipedia’s list of rivalry games and the rivalry’s article (CC BY-SA). More on the Battle Line Trophy.

Games that tell the story

  1. Arkansas’s biggest win2015: Arkansas 28, Missouri 3by 25 points
  2. Missouri’s biggest win2018: Missouri 38, Arkansas 0by 38 points
  3. Upset1944: Arkansas 7, Missouri 6Arkansas had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2016: Missouri 28, Arkansas 24Missouri had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsArkansasSeriesMissouri
2020–⁠2024Sam Pittman1–⁠4Eli Drinkwitz

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Arkansas’s side (Pittman 1–⁠4 against Drinkwitz). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Arkansas and Missouri, 1906 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Drew Lock Missouri25 of 42, 448 yards, 5 TD, 2 INT2017 Passing
Tony Temple Missouri24 carries, 281 yards, 4 TD2007 Rushing
Larry Rountree III Missouri27 carries, 185 yards, 3 TD2020 Rushing
Trelon Smith Arkansas26 carries, 172 yards, 3 TD2020 Rushing
Treylon Burks Arkansas10 catches, 206 yards, 1 TD2020 Receiving

Named most valuable

Tony Temple Missouri2007
William Moore Missouri2007
Cedric Cobbs2003
Caleb Miller2003

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1944 game: ARKANSAS BEATS MISSOURI, 7-6

    1944 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Sep 24, 1944

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Photos

  • View of Cotton Bowl Stadium from the Missouri side of the 2008 Cotton Bowl game (Missouri vs Arkansas)Cotton Bowl 2007
    View of Cotton Bowl Stadium from the Missouri side of the 2008 Cotton Bowl game (Missouri vs Arkansas)Cotton Bowl 2007Photo: Adam, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    The 2007 game
  • Tigers #22 Tony Temple racks up a few of his Cotton Bowl record 281 rushing yards.
    Tigers #22 Tony Temple racks up a few of his Cotton Bowl record 281 rushing yards.Photo: Neff Conner, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    The 2007 game
  • View of Cotton Bowl Stadium from the Arkansas side of the 2007 bowl gameCotton Bowl 2007
    View of Cotton Bowl Stadium from the Arkansas side of the 2007 bowl gameCotton Bowl 2007Photo: Adam, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    The 2007 game
  • Tigers #22 Tony Temple racks up a few of his Cotton Bowl record 281 rushing yards.
    Tigers #22 Tony Temple racks up a few of his Cotton Bowl record 281 rushing yards.Photo: Neff Conner, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    The 2007 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Oct 31, 2026Missouri at Arkansas upcomingat Arkansas
Nov 29, 2025Missouri 31, Arkansas 17at Arkansas
Nov 30, 202424Missouri 28, Arkansas 21at Missouri
Nov 24, 202310Missouri 48, Arkansas 14at Arkansas
Nov 25, 2022Missouri 29, Arkansas 27at Missouri
Nov 26, 202125Arkansas 34, Missouri 17at Arkansas
Dec 5, 2020Missouri 50, Arkansas 48at Missouri
Nov 29, 2019Missouri 24, Arkansas 14at Arkansas
Nov 23, 2018Missouri 38, Arkansas 0at Missouri
Nov 24, 2017Missouri 48, Arkansas 45at Arkansas
Nov 25, 2016Missouri 28, Arkansas 24vacatedat Missouri
Nov 27, 2015Arkansas 28, Missouri 3at Arkansas
Nov 28, 201417Missouri 21, Arkansas 14at Missouri
Jan 1, 20081Missouri 38, Arkansas 7Neutral siteCotton Bowl
Dec 31, 2003Arkansas 27, Missouri 14Neutral siteIndependence Bowl
Sep 28, 1963Missouri 7, 8Arkansas 6at Arkansas
Sep 23, 1944Arkansas 7, Missouri 6at Missouri
Nov 10, 1906Missouri 11, Arkansas 0at Missouri

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.