The history of Mississippi State and the University of Missouri as football rivals is a rather short one. When the two teams square off Thursday night at 8 pm in Columbia, not only will it be the first SEC football game between the two schools, but it will mark just the third time in history they have met on the gridiron.
The two previous meetings occurred in the 1980s and the Tigers prevailed in both games. The subject of today’s article is the first-ever game in the series, played on October 3, 1981 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson.