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COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Halfway through the 2026 season, Missouri has won its way into playoff talk.

The Tigers sit 5-1 overall and are ranked No. 13 in the nation by both The Associated Press and the USA Today coaches polls, which when compared to the number of teams that make the College Football Playoff 鈥� well, Mizzou is presently in contention to be one of the 12.

Less than 24 hours after kicking-game issues led to the Buffalo Bills defeating the Rams in overtime, the team released kicker Harrison Mevis, a team official said Tuesday.

Mevis missed a 50-yard field-goal attempt in the first half, and a had potential 48-yard game-winning field-goal attempt blocked in overtime. The Bills went on to win 37-34 in overtime, dropping the Rams' record to 2-3.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� In order to fully appreciate the sentiment Mizzou鈥檚 Nicholas Rodriguez expressed about his teammate and workhorse running back Jamal Roberts, you should realize Rodriguez is a mixture of battering ram and bulldog in his own right.

A former high school wrestler and standout football star in Florida, the 6-foot-tall, 225-pound Rodriguez has proven himself capable of becoming a heat-seeking missile in the middle of the Mizzou defense as a linebacker. Saturday, Rodriguez recorded his fifth consecutive game with 10 or more tackles.

Ken Pomeroy, the man behind聽, released his model's preseason rankings on Sunday, giving fans some preseason fodder three weeks before seasons officially begin.

With near constant turnover, plus courts deciding player eligibility on a case-by-case basis, projections would seem to become more difficult. Overall roster continuity is at about 25%, or about half what it was 10 years ago,

No. 13 Mizzou, on a two-game win streak, now must prove it can win a high-level road game. The Tigers travel to face No. 9聽Ole Miss on Saturday afternoon.

Mizzou (5-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) beat Texas A&M 27-6 on Saturday in Columbia, its second straight impressive victory, both coming at home. The Tigers' lone loss has come on the road, at No. 16 Mississippi State.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Before making two late additions to the roster that could drastically alter playing time and overall team potential for the upcoming season, Missouri men鈥檚 basketball coach Dennis Gates presented his players with a choice.

The Tigers had 14 players on the books for 2026-27, a group assembled through high school recruiting and the transfer portal and a few holdovers from last season. The plan was for that group to be, well, the group 鈥� until the NCAA haphazardly changed its eligibility rules and lawsuits started pouring in.

There are certain games that stir your soul, even six days prior. The anticipation of a game that is somehow not only a game but also an experience, an exam, an expedition into new territory (be it stakes or, literally, Vaught Hemingway Stadium, where Ole Miss has only lost three games since 2021).

Such is Ol鈥� Mizzou鈥檚 game Saturday at Ole Miss聽鈥� No. 13 at No. 10聽鈥� a game that鈥檚 on the SEC Network but, with its saucy storylines, should be on the Soap Network.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Jamier Jones stood at the free-throw line, his team down by one point with only seconds left on the clock. He drained his first free throw to tie, then the second to take the lead.

Then, at the opposite end of the floor, Mark Mitchell rose toward the rim for a layup just as time expired. Bryson Tiller smacked the ball away for a win-sealing block.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� It happens just a few times a year in the Southeastern Conference: a defense restricting an offense like this.

Since Missouri joined the SEC ahead of the 2012 season, only 60 times has one SEC team held another to 10 or fewer first downs in a league game.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Here are three note-Worthy observations from Mizzou鈥檚 victory against Texas A&M on Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, a win that improved Mizzou鈥檚 record to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the SEC. It also marked Mizzou head coach Eli Drinkwitz鈥檚 first win against Texas A&M.

1. Mike Elko made it a grind for Mizzou鈥檚 offense

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� In 1888, two years before the first football game was played at the University of Missouri, the recipe for a cocktail called an 鈥渙ld-fashioned鈥� appeared for the first time in a manual for bartenders.

That guidebook was penned decades before phenomena like prohibition and the forward pass would alter the acts of drinking and playing football. Beer was half-priced in the 90 minutes before Missouri鈥檚 Saturday game against Texas A&M, by the way, as an example of how intertwined booze and ball are these days.