The Missouri Tigers are out of the TransPerfect Music City Bowl after a rise in COVID-19 cases in their program, it was announced Sunday.
The Tigers were set to face Iowa on Wednesday in Nashville, but Missouri canceled practice Sunday after an increase in positive COVID-19 tests and paused all team activities until Jan. 2.
A source told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the new cases have been traced to Missouri's Dec. 19 game at Mississippi State.
"Since concluding our regular season and conducting four rounds of tests over the last eight days, we have seen a significant increase in positive COVID-19 tests among our student-athletes, coaches and staff," athletic director Jim Sterk said in a statement.