COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri will return to Southeastern Conference action against a team without much more to lose.
No. 19 Mizzou (5-1, 1-1 SEC) hosts Auburn (2-4, 0-3) at 11 a.m. Saturday on ESPN, facing a team that has had its fair share of struggles through the first half of the 2024 season.
The blue-and-orange Tigers have thumped Alabama A&M and New Mexico but lost all of their meaningful games, stacking up defeats to California, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Georgia.
That could be thawing the seat of second-year coach Hugh Freeze, but MU coach Eli Drinkwitz views his next opponent through a more threatening lens.