The Southeastern Conference has treated the Missouri Tigers kindly at times...and then not so kindly at other times. The Tigers’ two SEC East titles are more than any team not named Florida or Georgia can claim in the division since 2012, and they have a better conference record in that time period than Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
Still, life in this conference is incredibly difficult, as no other league presents the week-to-week grind that the SEC does. Mizzou has faltered at times because of it, and it is struggling to find its way back to being among the conference’s elite after multiple seasons of mediocrity.