Spring Ball Check-In with Mizzou’s 2024 Opponents (Part 1)

Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY SportsCollege football’s long haul of an offseason is turning the corner, as we are beginning to talk actual ball on these pages, and not just boardroom drama and roster construction. Missouri has a football schedule to play this fall, and we are going to check in with all 12 teams on it in the next two weeks. We will start with six this week and six next, going in alphabetical order instead of schedule order. What? I need more time to research Murray State and UMass. Alabama is easy. (To learn about it, not to play against.)

Two things jump off the page with the Tigers’ schedule: 1) holy crap, it is easy. Things couldn’t be more well-aligned for a deep run this…