COLUMBIA, Mo. — There are a couple questions that face a college football program when it comes to bowl games.
First: Who will they be playing? The answer for Missouri, of course, is the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Music City Bowl at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Nashville, Tennessee.
And second, now that the game is less than a week away: Who will be playing?
Bowl game opt-outs are common these days, and Mizzou will be dealing with some of them this year. The Tigers dodged that bullet at last year’s Cotton Bowl — opt-out attention was instead focused on Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.