The Music City Bowl between Missouri and Iowa was canceled Sunday because covid-19 issues left the Tigers unable to play.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based game scheduled for Wednesday is the second bowl called off since the postseason lineup was set on Dec. 20, joining the Gasparilla Bowl.
Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk said in a statement the football team had a “significant increase in positive covid-19 tests among our student-athletes, coaches and staff” since the end of the regular season.
Overall, 18 bowl games scheduled to be played this season have been canceled.
Missouri is the third Southeastern Conference team that has had to pull out of its bowl game, joining Tennessee and South Carolina.