Whether Missouri fans like it, the Southeastern Conference continues to push Arkansas as the program’s rival despite the lack of tension and history between the two fanbases.
The Razorbacks are the Tigers’ permanent non-division opponent in the SEC’s current eight-game conference football schedule, which also consists of six division opponents and one rotating non-division team in a system that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
Conference commissioner Greg Sankey addressed scheduling in his opening speech at SEC Media Days on Monday, and he likes his league’s current model.
Three Power Five conferences — the Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten — utilize nine-game conference schedules, which Sankey doesn’t seem to be a fan of, or at the very least doesn’t believe to be necessary.