COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri is in for some whiplash.
Last Saturday, the Tigers played in front of nearly 100,000 fans at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field, the fourth-biggest college football stadium by capacity in the nation. This week, they’ll play in the fifth-smallest in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Facing Massachusetts on the road is an odd bit of scheduling for a Southeastern Conference team, and taking the field at 17,000-seat McGuirk Alumni Stadium will show why. The stadium squeaks just above the NCAA’s requirement of 15,000 seats for an FBS school. Massachusetts added permanent lights to the stadium in 2008 and a video board in 2009.