COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones spoke with the Mike Kelly, the voice of the Missouri Tigers, ahead of the Mizzou, Kansas edition of Tiger Talk out at Harpo’s. Tiger Talk is a weekly radio show hosted by Kelly, which previews the upcoming football games with Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz, assistant
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Saturday, one of the most iconic rivalries in all of college sports will return to the gridiron. When Kansas descends upon Columbia, it will be the first time the Jayhawks have visited Faurot Field since 2006. It’s the first time that these two have meet on the football field, period, since
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is preparing for a game of historic proportions, on Saturday, as the Kansas Jayhawks will descend upon Columbia for the first time since 2006. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz did the work on informing his team about just what this rivalry means to the state of Missouri in the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The rivalry will return to Memorial Stadium on Saturday when the Kansas Jayhawks take on the Missouri Tigers. The two football clubs haven’t battled on the field in years, but the rivalry is still relevant in the hearts of Mizzou and Kansas fans. Watch a news conference previewing this weekend’s game in
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A great college football rivalry will be renewed on Saturday when Kansas travels to Missouri. Both the Tigers and the Jayhawks are undefeated in this young season, and each hopes to score its first victory over a power conference foe. The SEC Network even plans to broadcast its flagship game day show, “SEC Nation,” from
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of the most historic rivalries in the country will return to Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Mizzou will host Kansas on Saturday at 2:30 p.m, a game that is expected to draw in fans from both Columbia and Kansas. The anticipation of being apart of the large crowd had some students eager
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team came out on the other side of week one 1-0, as the Tigers thrashed the Central Arkansas Purple Bears 61-6, on Thursday. However, that victory didn’t come without a cost. Quarterback Sam Horn and kicker Blake Craig each went down with an injury and did not return to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones caught up with KTGR’s Andy Humphrey in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Sunday, SEC Network announced that the traveling pregame show, ‘SEC Nation’ will make its long-awaited return to Columbia on Saturday, Sept. 6, ahead of Mizzou’s game against Kansas. Host Laura Rutledge will be joined by analysts Paul Finebaum, Roman Harper, Jordan Rodgers and Tim Tebow on Mizzou’s Quad from 9-11 a.m.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Season tickets for the Mizzou Tigers’ 2025 football season sold out faster than last year despite a 50% increase in prices. The Mizzou Athletic Department announced on Aug. 5 that season tickets were sold out, despite raising prices by half. Assistant athletic director Joshua Moore said tickets sold out two weeks earlier
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The Missouri Tigers led off the 2025 football season Thursday night with a big win at home over Central Arkansas, 61-6. The Tigers had one quarterback go down when Sam Horn left the game with a leg injury. That cleared the way for Penn State transfer Beau Pribula to lead the offense for the rest
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has kicked off the 2025 season with a dominating win. You can watch extended highlights of MU’s routing of the Central Arkansas in the video player below. The Tigers (1-0) cruised to a 61-6 victory over Central Arkansas (0-1) in their season opener, behind an impressive debut from quarterback Beau
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: A correction has been made about the closures on Interstate 70. Thousands of fans traveled to Columbia on Saturday for the Missouri Tigers’ first football game of the season, packing Faurot Field and creating heavy traffic around campus hours before the 6:30 p.m. kickoff. By mid-afternoon, traffic congestion was building
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football has assembled a jam-packed roster of leadership ahead of the 2025 season. On Thursday, the Tigers will begin the road to a third straight 10-win season against Central Arkansas with nine captains leading the charge. It marks the largest group of leaders that the program has had in a single
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The ABC 17 Sports team previewed the 2025 Mizzou football season, ahead of Thursday night’s opener against Central Arkansas. Sports director Nathalie Jones and anchor Kyle Helms dove into head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s ongoing quarterback competition, a record-setting group of team captains and a whole lot more. You can watch a full
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics is urging the Mizzou faithful to plan out their game day more than ever before, as renovations to the north end zone at Faurot Field will rage on through the 2025 football season. Although MU worked to make the changes to the game day experience as minimal as possible, there
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) To find success as a walk-on in college football, it takes a unique blend of skill, dedication, passion, grit and toughness. Even then, it’s not always guaranteed that you’ll carve out the role you would’ve hoped. Mizzou receiver Logan Muckey possesses and each every one of those qualities, plus an extra one
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ahead of the start of the 2025 football season, the University of Missouri said that Tiger students and fans will ‘no longer be rushing the field’ after big victories at Faurot Field. UM System President Mun Choi released a statement to Mizzou faithful on social media and email, on Tuesday, to address
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) According to a report from college football insider Pete Thamel, Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz plans on having his two quarterbacks split up reps in the season opener by half, as the battle to be the starter rages on. That report said that graduate transfer Beau Pribula will get the start in
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Mizzou kicks off its football season this week with a Thursday night home matchup against Central Arkansas. Tigers fans are already in anticipation of another season, hoping to see their team with 10 games for yet another year. But things aren’t all rainbows in Tiger country — some students say the new process for getting
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