Mizzou football goes unranked in preseason coaches poll
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Mizzou football team will begin the 2025 season not ranked in the Top-25 of the US LBM Coaches Poll. The Tigers are the second team out of the poll, receiving 142 voting points.
The ranking comes after head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company finished the 2024 season ranked No. 20 by the coaches. MU is the highest-ranked team from last season that is not featured in the coaches' Top-25 ahead of the 2025 campaign.
There are nine Southeastern Conference teams that made the cut, though. You can find a full look at the Top-25, including the first few programs out below.
- Texas
- Ohio State
- Penn State
- Georgia
- Notre Dame
- Clemson
- Oregon
- Alabama
- LSU
- Miami (Fla.)
- Arizona State
- Illinois
- South Carolina
- Michigan
- Ole Miss
- SMU
- Florida
- Tennessee
- Indiana
- Kansas State
- Texas A&M
- Iowa State
- BYU
- Texas Tech
- Boise State
The first teams out of the Top-25 are as follows: Oklahoma (221 voting points), Mizzou (142 voting points) Louisville (126 voting points), USC (116 voting points), Utah (86 voting points), Baylor (76 voting points), Auburn (50 voting points) and others.
Mizzou enters the 2025 season with an opportunity to make history. The Tigers have posted back-to-back 10-win campaigns in 2023 and 2024, but will now look to be the first team in MU history to grab three-straight. Coach Drinkwitz joins College Football Hall of Fame coach Gary Pinkel as the only two coaches to post multiple 10-win seasons in Columbia.
The Tigers will look to make a statement to voters when the season opens on Thursday, Aug. 28 against Central Arkansas.
