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Missouri football bowl game: Tigers will face Iowa in Music City Bowl, per reports
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- Missouri football bowl game: Tigers will face Iowa in Music City Bowl, per reports
Cue the Missouri Waltz at the Grand Ole Opry.
The Tigers are headed to Nashville.
Missouri football will play its bowl game against Iowa in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee, the team announced Sunday. PowerMizzou of 247Sports first reported the news. The matchup will be played at Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans .
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Kickoff for the game is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. CDT on Monday, Dec. 30, and it will air on ESPN.
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Missouri has never played in the Music City Bowl, which has been played since 1998. Mizzou was scheduled to play in the 2020 edition of the bowl game against Iowa, but the game was canceled due to the pandemic.
Four years later, the Tigers will get their trip.
"It's an honor to be selected to participate in the TransPerfect Music City Bowl," Missouri football coach said in a statement. "We're looking forward to the opportunity to play at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. It's a great market for our alumni and fanbase and I know we'll have an excited crowd. Our team has worked extremely hard to achieve this goal, and we are looking forward to preparing and playing against a terrific Iowa squad. I'm just thankful I get to coach this special group of men for one more game this season."
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Mizzou has been bowl eligible in each of head coach Eli Drinkwitz's five seasons at the helm. The Tigers lost to Army in the Armed Forces Bowl in 2021, then fell to Wake Forest in the Gasparilla Bowl in 2022.
Drinkwitz's first bowl win with Missouri was a big one, knocking off Ohio State for a New Year's Six win over Ohio State in last season's Cotton Bowl.
The first 12-team College Football Playoff field also was announced Sunday. Missouri likely was one win away from consideration for a berth.
Missouri Tigers quarterback Brady Cook -- Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports
The Tigers went 9-3 in the 2024 regular season, with losses at Texas A&M, Alabama and South Carolina. Mizzou became eligible early this season, securing the bowl-clinching sixth win with a Oct. 19 win over Auburn.
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MU closed the regular season with a 28-21 win against Arkansas on Saturday, Nov. 30. Mizzou
The Tigers will play their bowl game without star wide receiver Luther Burden III and dominant right tackle Armand Membou, as both players have declared for the 2025 NFL Draft and will opt out of the bowl game.
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