Game against Central Arkansas includes home-state ties for Mizzou's Eli Drinkwitz
COLUMBIA, Mo. — There’s not much known about Central Arkansas, the Football Championship Subdivision team that will be a five-touchdown underdog against Missouri when the 2025 season begins this week. Like with other FCS teams the Tigers have faced in nonconference openers, scouting the Bears is difficult.
Luckily for Mizzou, its coach has some connections.
Mizzou football head coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, ahead of Thursday's opener vs. Central Arkansas. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)
SLUH's Keenan Harris (8) extends for a diving catch attempt during a football game between St. Mary's and SLUH, Friday, October 18, 2024, at Saint Louis University High School in 51ºÚÁÏ, Mo. Ben Loewnau, Special to the Post-Dispatch.
How to watch Mizzou Tigers football vs. Central Arkansas: TV, live stream, game time
The wait for college football is nearly over.
Mizzou opens its 2025 season on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. by hosting Central Arkansas of the Football Championship Subdivision in a game airing on SEC Network.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Trotter family football games must be hard-hitting endeavors. What else could backyard football look like in a household full of linebackers?
There’s Jeremiah Trotter Sr., who spent 11 years in the NFL, mostly with the Philadelphia Eagles, as the patriarch. He earned All-American honors twice at Stephen F. Austin and was twice an NFL All-Pro, making it into the Eagles’ Hall of Fame in 2016.
'I didn't want to rush the decision': Mizzou's Eli Drinkwitz on QB competition
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Mizzou quiet on plan for split between QBs Beau Pribula, Sam Horn in season opener
Missouri quarterbacks Sam Horn, left, and Beau Pribula run drills on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, at the Kadlec Athletic Fields in Columbia, Mo., as the team prepares for the upcoming season.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The final stage of Missouri’s quarterback battle is here. The fourth quarter, if you will.
Spring ball was the first quarter, from which Beau Pribula and Sam Horn emerged as the contenders to be Mizzou’s next starting quarterback. Summer OTAs, always unlikely to have settled the battle, were the second quarter. Fall camp was the third.
Worthy: Was Eli Drinkwitz's mock road game fake hustle or something more for Mizzou?
Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz hasn’t forgotten. The sting remains fresh from that offseason sprinkled with shouldas, couldas and wouldas primarily centered around road games that went awry.
At first glance, it’s easy to think last weekend’s “mock road game†trip to Lindenwood University for an intrasquad scrimmage falls into the category of things done more for show than for results.
Missouri football offensive lineman Connor Tollison speaks with the media on Thursday, July 17, 2025, during SEC media days in Atlanta. (Courtesy Southeastern Conference)
Where are they now? Checking in on 32 college players who transferred away from Mizzou
From backing up star freshmen to earning the praise of college football’s flashiest coach and from playing on Saturdays in the Southeastern Conference to Tuesdays in the Mid-American Conference, former Missouri football players are all over the country.
The transfer portal has scattered them around various conferences and levels, with some having now transferred multiple times after departing Columbia for pastures that looked greener — but haven’t always turned out that way.
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Columbia, Missouri. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)
Lee Corso's farewell highlights changes in how we'll watch football this season: Media Views
The college football season kicks off Saturday with a smattering of games — just five involving teams from major conferences, four of which are to be nationally televised — before roaring into full gear next week with a full slate spread out from Thursday through Monday.
Then the NFL joins the party when its season blasts off Sept. 4.
Mizzou football head coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, after a scrimmage at Lindenwood. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)
Worthy: New college football playoff proposal shows Big Ten's weakness, not strength
Sorry, Big Ten. Plainly put: That new playoff proposal reeks of cowardice.
It gives off the undeniable aroma of a conference that’s afraid of competition, scared it might lose its national prominence and worried it needs protection mandated by administrators as opposed to earned through performance.
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Columbia, Missouri. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)
With Brett Norfleet back to full health, Mizzou wants tight ends 'more involved'
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ask Missouri tight end Brett Norfleet a question about growth and he’ll give you an answer about his health. That’s how closely the two concepts are intertwined.
“Well, my shoulder feels good, so that’s probably where I’ve grown the most,†Norfleet said after a recent practice.
Missouri tight end Brett Norfleet, left, signs a helmet for fan Charlie Seltzer, then 12, right, during the University of Missouri’s Come Home Tour event on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at Chicken N Pickle in St. Charles. The event, for 51ºÚÁÏ-based Mizzou fans, featured a panel of players and coaches.
Mizzou cornerback Toriano Pride Jr. speaks with the media during an August media session prior to the 2025 football season. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)
