Missouri Tigers will get head start on football season with this schedule change
Missouri’s 2022 football season will begin with a Thursday night game.
The SEC announced Thursday that the Tigers’ season opener against Louisiana Tech at Faurot Field will kick off at 7 p.m. Central Time on Sept. 1. It will be televised by ESPNU.
The game was originally set for Sept. 3.
Mizzou had previously been scheduled to play its first game of the 2022 season at Middle Tennessee State, but instead later added Louisiana Tech as a seventh home game. This will be the first meeting between the two programs.
The opener will be the first weeknight game at Faurot Field since 2015. It also will give Missouri additional time to prepare for its first road game, at Kansas State on Sept. 10.
Also, the conference officially set the Mizzou-Arkansas game for Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving. That’s when the Battle Line Rivalry has been played over the past few seasons.
This year’s game in Columbia will kick off at 2:30 p.m., televised by CBS.
Here’s the Tigers’ full schedule:
Sept. 1: Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.
Sept. 10: at Kansas State, time TBD
Sept. 17: Abilene Christian, time TBD
Sept. 24: at Auburn, time TBD
Oct. 1: Georgia, time TBD
Oct. 8: at Florida, time TBD
Oct. 15: Bye
Oct. 22: Vanderbilt, time TBD
Oct. 29: at South Carolina, time TBD
Nov. 5: Kentucky, time TBD
Nov. 12: at Tennessee, time TBD
Nov. 19: New Mexico State, time TBD
Nov. 25: Arkansas, 2:30 p.m.
This story was originally published April 14, 2022 at 2:39 PM.