Missouri Tigers

SECColumbia, MOMemorial Stadium

2026: 5–⁠2 (2–⁠2 SEC), No. 22 in the AP poll. Last: lost at No. 9 Ole Miss 31–⁠3. Next: at Arkansas, Saturday, Oct 31.

  1. W 54–⁠14Arkansas–Pine Bluff
  2. W 38–⁠21at Kansas
  3. W 27–⁠17Troy
  4. L 24–⁠31at No. 24 Mississippi State
  5. W 45–⁠17No. 8 Florida
  6. W 27–⁠6Texas A&M
  7. L 3–⁠31at No. 9 Ole Miss
  8. Oct 31at Arkansas
  9. Nov 7Texas
  10. Nov 14at Georgia
  11. Nov 21Kentucky
  12. Nov 28Oklahoma
  • Outfitted by Nike

Missouri has played football since 1890 and is 688–⁠571–⁠50 in the 1,309 games on record here, which start in 1895. Missouri claims one national championship (1960). Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 4, in 2007. They have won six Big Eight Conference titles (the last in 1969), plus six Missouri Valley Conference titles, two Western Interstate University Football Association titles, one Western Interstate University Football Conference title, counting shared titles. Since 1937, the NFL Draft has taken 141 players from here in its first seven rounds, 22 of them in the first round. The AAFC and AFL drafts also took five players from here. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 8 players and 6 coaches from Missouri. Gary Pinkel (2001–⁠2015) won more games here than any other coach: 118. The most-played rival is Kansas: 122 meetings, Missouri leads 59–⁠54–⁠9. This season, under Eli Drinkwitz, they’re 5–⁠2.

Résumé

All-time record
732–⁠597–⁠52 official; 688–⁠571–⁠50 on file; how we count
Postseason
17–⁠21 matches the official bowl record
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
2 of 277 ranked
Elo now
1628 24th of 138 FBS
Computer rankings
Massey No. 23 · Composite No. 12 in FBS, Oct 17; down 4 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
Best season by Elo
2013 rated 1740
Conference titles
15 last in 1969
Seasons
129 since 1895, 1,309 games

Identity

Fight song
Every True Son, Fight Tiger
Student section
The Zou
Apparel
Nike
Band
Marching Mizzou since 1885, 350 members

2026 season 5–⁠2

RosterFull 2026 season

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Missouri’s Elo through 2026: 1574 going into the opener, 1628 after the latest game; AP rank from No. 25 to unranked.1575160016251650Elo 1574 going in; beat Arkansas–Pine Bluff 54–14; AP No. 25Elo 1579 going in; beat Kansas 38–21; AP No. 23Elo 1606 going in; beat Troy 27–17; AP No. 20Elo 1620 going in; lost to Mississippi State 31–24; AP No. 19Elo 1598 going in; beat Florida 45–17; AP No. 25Elo 1627 going in; beat Texas A&M 27–6; AP No. 14Elo 1650 going in; lost to Ole Miss 31–3; AP No. 13Now: Elo 1628 after the latest game1628
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Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses. Numbers under the line: the AP rank going into each game, and in the newest poll (a dot: unranked).

Future schedule

2027–⁠34
20274 games: 3 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20283 games: 2 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20293 games: 2 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20303 games: 2 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20314 games: 2 home, 2 away, non-conference only
20322 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20333 games: 2 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20342 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only

Missouri’s announced games beyond the seasons on our schedule, the next 8 seasons (1 more listed), as its Wikipedia article lists them (announced schedules as of June 26, 2025). Schedules change; a season shows only the games named so far, and many articles list non-conference games only. Future schedules: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

On the 2026 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Missouri.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Around the program

Apparel
Nike · Official source
Mascot
Truman the Tiger · Official source
Student section
The Zou · Official source
Athletic director
Laird Veatch · Official source
Offensive coordinator
Chip Lindsey · Official source
Defensive coordinator
Corey Batoon · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

The apparel deal

Nike. A Nike contract ran through 2021. The current term hasn't been confirmed here.

  • KOMU, Sep 5, 2018: Mizzou's Nike contract ends in 2021

Apparel deals: Field Drip. Terms as the outlets reported them; checked Oct 3, 2026.

Program strength since 1895

Best seasons ever
Missouri end-of-season Elo from 1895 to 2026, best in 2013 at 1740.130015001700190019001920194019601980200020202013 peak: Elo 1740
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

On Bluesky

  • Jason Kirk

    Getting to play Texas' offense after playing Missouri and uhh South Carolina has got to feel like a mental health day

    Read on Bluesky
  • David Hale

    In 2024 and 2025 -- the 1st 2 years of the 12-team playoff -- 23 P4 teams opened the year 5-0. 13 of 23 made the playoff. 5 others ranked between Nos. 12-18 in the final playoff rankings. The only non-contenders: 2024 Duke and Pitt; 2025 Iowa State, GT and Missouri.

    Read on Bluesky

From reporters and writers who cover college football, linked to their posts on Bluesky.

More coverage

Found through the GDELT Project, which indexes news sites worldwide. Each link opens the story on the outlet’s own site; each picture is that outlet’s own preview of its story, shown from its site and credited to it.

Podcasts

Found through Podcast Index, the open podcast directory. Each link opens the episode’s page.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Eli Drinkwitz2020–⁠202651–⁠31
Barry Odom2016–⁠201925–⁠25
Gary Pinkel2001–⁠2015118–⁠73
Larry Smith1994–⁠200033–⁠46–⁠1
Bob Stull1989–⁠199315–⁠38–⁠2
Woody Widenhofer1985–⁠198812–⁠31–⁠1
Warren Powers1978–⁠198446–⁠33–⁠3
Al Onofrio1971–⁠197738–⁠41
Dan Devine1958–⁠197092–⁠38–⁠7
Frank Broyles19575–⁠4–⁠1
Don Faurot1935–⁠1956100–⁠80–⁠10
Chauncey Simpson1943–⁠194512–⁠14–⁠2
Frank Carideo1932–⁠19342–⁠23–⁠2
Gwinn Henry1923–⁠193140–⁠28–⁠9
Thomas Kelly19225–⁠3
James Phelan1920–⁠192113–⁠3
John Miller19195–⁠1–⁠2
Henry Schulte1914–⁠191716–⁠14–⁠2
Chester Brewer1911–⁠191314–⁠8–⁠2
Bill Hollenback19104–⁠2–⁠2
Bill Roper19097–⁠0–⁠1
W.J. Monilaw1906–⁠190818–⁠6–⁠1
John McLean1903–⁠19059–⁠17–⁠1
Patrick O’Dea19025–⁠3
Fred Murphy19011–⁠6–⁠1
Charles Young18970–⁠1
Frank Patterson18960–⁠1
C.D. Bliss18952–⁠0

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesMIZ record
Kansas12259–⁠54–⁠9 ‡
Iowa State10461–⁠34–⁠9 ‡
Kansas State9961–⁠33–⁠5 †
Oklahoma9825–⁠68–⁠5
Nebraska10436–⁠65–⁠3 ‡
Colorado7541–⁠31–⁠3
Oklahoma State5329–⁠24
Washington St. Louis3423–⁠9–⁠2

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.

Trophies it holds: Indian War Drum (Kansas, since 2009), Lamar Hunt Trophy (Kansas, since 2009), Battle Line Trophy (Arkansas, since 2022), Mayor’s Cup (South Carolina). Who holds each comes from the games on file; the trophies from Wikipedia.

Every opponent (148)

Every program Missouri has played, A to Z, with Missouri’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.

Conference titles

15, counting shared titles
Big Eight Conference 6
1939, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1960, 1969 (shared)
Missouri Valley Conference 6
1909, 1913 (shared), 1919, 1924, 1925, 1927
Western Interstate University Football Conference 1
1895 (shared)
Western Interstate University Football Association 2
1893, 1894 (shared)
SEC East 2
2013, 2014
Big 12 North 3
2007 (tied), 2008 (tied), 2010 (tied)

As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.

Conferences

  1. Independent 1890–⁠1892
  2. Western Interstate University Football Conference 1893–⁠1897
  3. Independent 1898–⁠1906
  4. Missouri Valley Conference 1907–⁠1917 and 1919–⁠1927
  5. Big Six 1928–⁠1947
  6. Big Seven 1948–⁠1957
  7. Big Eight 1958–⁠1995
  8. Big 12 1996–⁠2011
  9. SEC since 2012
  • 1928Joined the Big Six from the Missouri Valley Conference. Source
  • 1996Joined the Big 12 from the Big Eight. Source
  • 2012Joined the SEC from the Big 12. Source

Missouri’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

National award winners

All awards
2023Cody Schrader RBBurlsworth
2008Chase Coffman TEMackey
1978Warren Powers coachWalter Camp Coach

Consensus All-Americans 16

2025Ahmad Hardy RB
2023Cody Schrader RB
2014Shane Ray DL
2013Michael Sam DL
2010Michael Egnew TE
2008Chase Coffman TE
2008Jeremy Maclin WR/KR
2007Jeremy Maclin WR/KR
2007Martin Rucker TE
1999Rob Riti C
1986John Clay OT
1978Kellen Winslow TE
1968Roger Wehrli CB
1965Johnny Roland RB/DB
1960Dan LaRose E
1941Darold Jenkins C

Led the nation 10

2017Drew Lock passing touchdowns (44 TD)
2011Henry Josey yards per carry (8.1)
2009Danario Alexander receiving yards (1,781 yds)
2008Jeff Wolfert points (133 pts)
1969Mel Gray yards per catch (27.1)
1968Roger Wehrli punt return yards (478 yds)
1955Hank Burnine receptions (44 catches), receiving yards (594 yds)
1942Bob Steuber yards per carry (7.4), points (121 pts)
1941Bob Steuber yards per carry (7.6)
1940Paul Christman passing touchdowns (13 TD)

The NCAA’s official national leaders since 1937, from Wikipedia’s yearly leader lists.

Heisman runners-up and finalists

The votes
2007Chase Daniel QB4th
1940Paul Christman QB5th
1939Paul Christman QB3rd

Second to fifth in the vote, from each season’s Wikipedia article.

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
8
Coaches
6
2023Jeremy Maclin WR/KR
2022Gary Pinkel coach here, 2001–⁠2015
2003Roger Wehrli CB
2002Kellen Winslow TE
1998Johnny Roland RB/DB
1985Dan Devine coach here, 1958–⁠1970
1983Frank Broyles coach here, 1957
1976Darold Jenkins C
1974Ed Travis OT
1973James Phelan coach here, 1920–⁠1921
1971Bob Steuber RB
1961Don Faurot coach here, 1935–⁠1956
1956Paul Christman RB
1954William Roper coach, career 1903–⁠1930

In the draft

By college
NFL picks, rounds 1–⁠7
141 since 1937
First-round picks
22
AAFC and AFL picks
5 1949, 1961–⁠62
2025Armand Membou OTNo. 7, New York Jets
2024Darius Robinson DENo. 27, Arizona Cardinals
2017Charles Harris OLBNo. 22, Miami Dolphins
2015Shane Ray OLBNo. 23, Denver Broncos
2013Sheldon Richardson DTNo. 13, New York Jets
2011Aldon Smith DENo. 7, San Francisco 49ers
2011Blaine Gabbert QBNo. 10, Jacksonville Jaguars
2010Sean Weatherspoon OLBNo. 19, Atlanta Falcons

Who came and went in the 2026 transfer portal, and every portal year.

The school

University of Missouri–Columbia
Enrollment
31,543 24,449 undergraduates, fall 2024
Where
Columbia, Missouri
Public or private
Public Research 1
Founded
1839
Graduates’ median earnings
$63,403 10 years after starting

Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.

Official accounts

Football
X @mizzoufootballInstagram @mizzoufootballFacebook MizzouFootballShowMe

Official accounts: the schools’ athletics websites: the ones mutigers.com lists for its football program, as of Oct 12, 2026.

Voices

play-by-play
  1. 1986–⁠89Kevin Harlan

From the announcers’ Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA), with the years as each article gives them: those in Wikipedia’s Missouri football announcers category, and any whose article names them the program’s play-by-play voice. Television network crews and announcers whose articles give no years are left out.

On the newsreel

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0), filed under the program’s Library of Congress subject heading; most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

Season by season

National champions

Shaded: national title seasons, No. 1 in the final AP poll or claimed by Missouri (1 claimed).

SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20265–⁠22–⁠225Eli Drinkwitz162818.0
20258–⁠54–⁠4Eli Drinkwitz161114.4
202410–⁠35–⁠31122Eli Drinkwitz166414.0
202311–⁠26–⁠28Eli Drinkwitz170919.3
20226–⁠73–⁠5Eli Drinkwitz14918.1
20216–⁠73–⁠5Eli Drinkwitz14573.1
20205–⁠55–⁠5Eli Drinkwitz1507-1.0
20196–⁠63–⁠5Barry Odom15417.8
20188–⁠54–⁠4Barry Odom163120.8
20177–⁠64–⁠4Barry Odom153811.1
20164–⁠82–⁠6Barry Odom1448-1.0
20155–⁠71–⁠724Gary Pinkel15293.4
201411–⁠37–⁠12414Gary Pinkel173019.3
201312–⁠27–⁠15Gary Pinkel174019.3
20125–⁠72–⁠6Gary Pinkel15293.9
20118–⁠55–⁠421Gary Pinkel165115.0
201010–⁠36–⁠218Gary Pinkel165819.3
20098–⁠54–⁠4Gary Pinkel158511.8
200810–⁠45–⁠3619Gary Pinkel168424.0
200712–⁠27–⁠14Gary Pinkel173421.4
20068–⁠54–⁠4Gary Pinkel157414.4
20057–⁠54–⁠4Gary Pinkel15335.7
20045–⁠63–⁠518Gary Pinkel14830.8
20038–⁠54–⁠4Gary Pinkel15568.1
20025–⁠72–⁠6Gary Pinkel14708.5
Every season back to 1895 (104 more)
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20014–⁠73–⁠5Gary Pinkel1403-3.8
20003–⁠82–⁠6Larry Smith1407-5.2
19994–⁠71–⁠7Larry Smith1468-0.5
19988–⁠45–⁠321Larry Smith161823.2
19977–⁠55–⁠323Larry Smith15499.6
19965–⁠63–⁠5Larry Smith1464-2.2
19953–⁠81–⁠6Larry Smith1382-7.1
19943–⁠8–⁠12–⁠5Larry Smith1388-9.4
19933–⁠7–⁠12–⁠5Bob Stull1404-0.9
19923–⁠82–⁠5Bob Stull1412-2.5
19913–⁠7–⁠11–⁠6Bob Stull1388-7.4
19904–⁠72–⁠5Bob Stull1421-0.5
19892–⁠91–⁠6Bob Stull1347-15.3
19883–⁠7–⁠12–⁠5Woody Widenhofer1410-1.1
19875–⁠63–⁠4Woody Widenhofer14445.4
19863–⁠82–⁠5Woody Widenhofer1356-11.1
19851–⁠101–⁠6Woody Widenhofer1321-15.8
19843–⁠7–⁠12–⁠4–⁠1Warren Powers14913.5
19837–⁠55–⁠2Warren Powers158120.5
19825–⁠4–⁠22–⁠3–⁠2Warren Powers15494.6
19818–⁠43–⁠419Warren Powers160513.7
19808–⁠45–⁠217Warren Powers162818.9
19797–⁠53–⁠412Warren Powers161012.6
19788–⁠44–⁠315Warren Powers162618.9
19774–⁠73–⁠4Al Onofrio155211.6
19766–⁠53–⁠4Al Onofrio157422.4
19756–⁠53–⁠4Al Onofrio160919.3
19747–⁠45–⁠2Al Onofrio161613.2
19738–⁠43–⁠417Al Onofrio159317.9
19726–⁠63–⁠4Al Onofrio14457.5
19711–⁠100–⁠7Al Onofrio1363-4.5
19705–⁠63–⁠411Dan Devine154812.4
19699–⁠26–⁠1106Dan Devine1703
19688–⁠35–⁠29Dan Devine1661
19677–⁠34–⁠3Dan Devine1585
19666–⁠3–⁠14–⁠2–⁠1Dan Devine1595
19658–⁠2–⁠16–⁠16Dan Devine1678
19646–⁠3–⁠14–⁠2–⁠1Dan Devine1623
19637–⁠35–⁠2Dan Devine1643
19628–⁠1–⁠25–⁠1–⁠1Dan Devine1689
19617–⁠2–⁠15–⁠211Dan Devine1670
196010–⁠16–⁠15Dan Devine1699
19596–⁠54–⁠218Dan Devine1548
19585–⁠4–⁠14–⁠1–⁠1Dan Devine1544
19575–⁠4–⁠13–⁠3Frank Broyles1490
19564–⁠5–⁠13–⁠2–⁠1Don Faurot1443
19551–⁠91–⁠5Don Faurot1378
19544–⁠5–⁠13–⁠2–⁠1Don Faurot1499
19536–⁠44–⁠2Don Faurot1540
19525–⁠55–⁠1Don Faurot1494
19512–⁠81–⁠5Don Faurot1410
19504–⁠5–⁠13–⁠2–⁠117Don Faurot1539
19497–⁠45–⁠12020Don Faurot1624
19488–⁠35–⁠1Don Faurot1629
19476–⁠43–⁠2Don Faurot1561
19465–⁠4–⁠13–⁠2Don Faurot1499
19456–⁠45–⁠0Chauncey Simpson1516
19443–⁠5–⁠22–⁠1–⁠2Chauncey Simpson1493
19433–⁠53–⁠2Chauncey Simpson1537
19428–⁠3–⁠14–⁠0–⁠1Don Faurot1626
19418–⁠25–⁠07Don Faurot1693
19406–⁠33–⁠2Don Faurot1619
19398–⁠25–⁠06Don Faurot1626
19386–⁠32–⁠3Don Faurot1549
19373–⁠6–⁠12–⁠2–⁠1Don Faurot1448
19366–⁠2–⁠13–⁠1–⁠1Don Faurot1498
19353–⁠3–⁠30–⁠2–⁠3Don Faurot1348
19340–⁠8–⁠10–⁠5Frank Carideo1226
19331–⁠80–⁠5Frank Carideo1239
19321–⁠7–⁠11–⁠3–⁠1Frank Carideo1320
19312–⁠81–⁠4Gwinn Henry1355
19302–⁠5–⁠21–⁠2–⁠2Gwinn Henry1432
19295–⁠2–⁠13–⁠1–⁠1Gwinn Henry1592
19284–⁠43–⁠2Gwinn Henry1535
19277–⁠25–⁠1Gwinn Henry1627
19265–⁠1–⁠24–⁠1Gwinn Henry1635
19256–⁠1–⁠15–⁠1Gwinn Henry1594
19247–⁠25–⁠1Gwinn Henry1562
19232–⁠3–⁠31–⁠3–⁠2Gwinn Henry1468
19225–⁠34–⁠3Thomas Kelly1544
19216–⁠24–⁠2James Phelan1590
19207–⁠15–⁠1James Phelan1575
19195–⁠1–⁠24–⁠0–⁠1John Miller1543
19173–⁠52–⁠4Henry Schulte1476
19166–⁠1–⁠13–⁠1–⁠1Henry Schulte1567
19152–⁠5–⁠11–⁠3–⁠1Henry Schulte1433
19145–⁠34–⁠1Henry Schulte1544
19137–⁠14–⁠0Chester Brewer1573
19125–⁠32–⁠3Chester Brewer1494
19112–⁠4–⁠20–⁠2–⁠2Chester Brewer1458
19104–⁠2–⁠21–⁠1–⁠1Bill Hollenback1567
19097–⁠0–⁠13–⁠0–⁠1Bill Roper1592
19086–⁠22–⁠2W.J. Monilaw1514
19077–⁠21–⁠1W.J. Monilaw1481
19065–⁠2–⁠1W.J. Monilaw1414
19055–⁠4John McLean1331
19043–⁠6John McLean1243
19031–⁠7–⁠1John McLean1288
19025–⁠3Patrick O’Dea1406
19011–⁠6–⁠1Fred Murphy1294
1900few games on file0–⁠11452
1897few games on file0–⁠1Charles Young1473
1896few games on file0–⁠1Frank Patterson1503
1895few games on file2–⁠0C.D. Bliss1537

Officially 732–⁠597–⁠52 since 1890 (per Wikipedia, checked Oct 10, 2026); game by game here, 688–⁠571–⁠50 (−44 wins, −26 losses, −2 ties). Our file starts in 1895; the program began in 1890. Some games are missing from our source.

No season on file for 1898–⁠99, 1918: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.