Mizzou has 'a lot of things we have to clean up' after messy win over Auburn
Auburn cornerback Kayin Lee (4) intercepts a pass intended for Missouri wide receiver Joshua Manning (0) during the first half of a game Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, in Auburn, Ala.
Butch Dill, Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The joy wears off some wins quicker than others, and it didn’t take long for Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz to find the flaws in the Tigers’ most recent one.
He came armed to his Tuesday news conference with a laundry list of issues spotted in Mizzou’s 23-17 double-overtime win against Auburn. It doesn’t take a football genius to have spotted most of them.
Another extension for Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz? Here's what could be coming.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Another week, another prominent college football program firing its head coach, another instance of Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz’s name popping up as a potential candidate.
Last week, it was Penn State. This week, it’s Florida. Given the apparent proclivity of schools to dismiss coaches midseason in 2025, there will probably be others soon enough.
Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz speaks with the media on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, after a win at Auburn. (Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics)
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1972: Mizzou pulled off one of its most unlikely upsets ever
On Oct. 21, 1972, one week after losing 62-0 to Nebraska, the Mizzou Tigers football team stunned No. 8 Notre Dame in South Bend. Here is our original coverage of that game.
Whatever lies ahead for this year's University of Missouri football team, it is unlikely that anything will surpass Saturday's game for pure pleasure. Because the Tigers, dismissed as gridiron nobodies, rose up and dispatched the previously undefeated Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, 30-26, before 59,075 stunned and soggy spectators.
Hochman: Can Mizzou stop Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia, the ‘best player in college football’?
In a peach bowl of quarterbacks, Diego Pavia is a nectarine.
The difference is that peaches are fuzzy, while nectarines are glossy, shiny and smooth. That’s Pavia — figuratively, since Diego is a flashy standout, and literally, since, well, means nectarine.
