Date: September 12, 2020 (everything’s subject to change, duh)
All-time Series Record: Missouri leads, 7-4-1
Last meeting: October 19, 2019. Vanderbilt won, 21-14.
Last year: 6-6, 39th in SP+.
Head coach: Eliah Drinkwitz (first year; 12-1 overall, 1 year)
Last season, expectations got a little too high for Missouri. Entering the season, there was talk that the Tigers — who were banned from the postseason for an academic scandal — might start the season 8-0. I maintained a healthy amount of skepticism, as I always do when prognosticators’ attitude toward a team revolves around “LOOK AT HOW EASY THEIR SCHEDULE IS,” and Missouri immediately proved how easy its schedule was by losing at Wyoming to open the season.