COLUMBIA, Mo. — No. 8 Alabama and No. 14 Missouri face off Saturday in an SEC game with College Football Playoff implications.
Missouri (5-0, 1-0 SEC) is cruising early this season, and has become a contender in the conference over the last three years, but hasn’t quite yet been able to take the final step in joining the elite. A 25-5 record is impressive, but the Tigers have lost to the best of the best — Alabama, LSU and Georgia — during that time.
The stage is set for an epic showdown at Faurot Field, where Mizzou hasn’t hosted a top-15 showdown since 1979, but that changes with the clash against the Crimson Tide (4-1, 2-0) kicking off at noon ET.
For Missouri, history is on the line, but so is its immediate future as a player in the College Football Playoff race. The Tigers are one of only four remaining undefeated teams in the SEC, yet they’re the eighth-highest-ranked team in the AP Top 25 this week. They’re led by the nation’s leading rusher, running back Ahmad Hardy.
Alabama has rebounded nicely since its season-opening loss at Florida State, snapping Georgia’s 33-game home winning streak two weeks ago and then pulling away for a 30-14 win last week against Vanderbilt.
The Tide have won six straight against Mizzou, with the last loss coming in 1975 in Columbia.
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