


Yet, across 10 online bowl projections, seven put Missouri into a bowl with direct SEC tie-ins. While it's next-to-impossible the Tigers vault heavily up the totem pole, the discretion of bowl organizers can't be predicted. The teams' records are an educated ranking system of those baker's dozen.įive SEC teams finished 6-6, including Missouri, making the Tigers likely falling in league stature anywhere from No. Simple math sends the least desired two conference teams into bowl free agency. The SEC has only 11 official bowl tie-ins.

Perhaps the biggest reason is every Southeastern Conference team except Vanderbilt reached the six-win bowl-eligibility plateau. The Tigers' bowl destination is tough to predict for a few reasons. The loss to Arkansas doesn't bring much clarity to the murkiness of where Missouri will land for its postseason game. Only the 10 FBS conference championship games separate the Tigers from Selection Sunday.
