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Tennessee football: Missouri has been a problem for Vols since joining SEC

Losing to the Missouri Tigers played a critical role in the last two Tennessee football head coaches losing their jobs. Butch Jones was fired the day after the Vols lost to them in 2017. Derek Dooley was fired a week later after losing to the Vanderbilt Commodores, but the Mizzou loss pretty much made it clear.

Dooley is now, obviously, going against the Vols this week as Missouri’s offensive coordinator, just as Jones went against the Vols as an offensive analyst with the Alabama Crimson Tide last month. But the common thread here is that Missouri has surprisingly had UT’s number since joining the SEC.