St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Aug 7, 2025
How will outcome of Mizzou's QB competition affect its offensive scheme?
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Sunday, July 27, 2025, in Columbia, Missouri. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)COLUMBIA, Mo. — Like chickens versus eggs and plants versus seeds, Missouri’s quarterback competition will tackle an existential question of causality.
Which comes first: the starting quarterback or the scheme?
It’s a question relevant to the Tigers this preseason because they’ve got different quarterbacks competing for the starting job and, heading into Year 3 under offensive coordinator Kirby Moore, a chance for variation in offensive scheme, too.