For all intents and purposes it is the SEC East Championship game, with the winner of this matchup likely representing the East against whichever of the LSU/ Ole Miss/Alabama triumvirate comes out of the West.
For nine years Mizzou has been building and fighting to get back to a stage like that and, finally they are here.Īnd make no mistake about it: this is certainly a championship-level game. The most important game your Missouri Tigers will play since they took the field against Alabama in the 2014 SEC Championship game.