COLUMBIA, Mo. — Save for an injury that decided Missouri's quarterback competition early on, the Tigers' 2025 season opener was a mostly smooth ride. Mizzou scored early and often, picking up touchdowns from seven different players en route to a 61-6 victory over Central Arkansas.
Here are five takeaways from MU's first outing of the season, a blowout win against a Football Championship Subdivision program:
The biggest takeaway from this game was always going to be the Tigers' quarterback battle — except the battle never took place because of an injury to Sam Horn.
Beau Pribula started the first half, as expected, with Horn to take over for the second.