Mizzou's Drinkwitz not focused on Alabama — yet

Missouri wide receiver Barrett Banister works on ball security drills on the first day of football practice at the University of Missouri in Columbia on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. Photo by Robert Cohen,COLUMBIA, Mo. — When the Missouri football team kicked off its first preseason practice Monday morning the Tigers were unsure who they were preparing to face in their first game.

By the afternoon, they knew.

Alabama’s quest for a sixth national championship under Nick Saban begins in Columbia on Sept. 26.

That piece of news didn’t change how the Tigers practiced on Tuesday on the second day of preseason camp. With more than five weeks before the opener against Alabama, first-year coach Eliah…