A common theme as we approach the 2024 college football season will be high expectations for Missouri. Tiger partisans and national media alike are infatuated with the assembled offensive talent, the incoming transfer additions, and the team’s easy schedule.
Yes, Missouri has an easy schedule this fall. Perhaps a more charitable descriptor is “manageable,” since it’s still an SEC slate. It’s hard to say a schedule with trips to College Station, Tuscaloosa, and hosting Oklahoma is “easy,” but that’s where we are. It’s really only easy in the context of the kind of schedules to be expected for a team in one of the two super leagues.