Its been a fairly quiet offseason for head coach Eliah Drinkwitz and the Missouri Tigers football team. Until the recent extension of the veteran head coach, there wasn't much news regarding the program within the last few months.
Perhaps the voters on the Coaches' Poll felt a similar way when the poll was released earlier this week.
Despite back-to-back pretty fantastic years for Mizzou football, especially compared to several years prior, the team didn't quite make it to the top-25 on the Coaches' Poll, which was announced Monday afternoon.
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Even though the Tigers didn't make the top-25, they were one of the largest vote-getters, out of all the teams that didn't make the list.
They're joined by a number of other teams, including other SEC Conference foes, such as Oklahoma, and Vanderbilt.
Speaking of the SEC, like basketball, the conference looks to dominate the football season, leading all conferences with 9 teams ranked within the top-25, according to this poll. In fact, all but Kentucky and Mississippi State recieved at least one vote towards being ranked on Monday's preseason poll.
Looking ahead to the Tigers schedule this fall, just two teams within the top-25 are on this list, with the highest ranked opponent, SEC rival Alabama, sitting at a No. 8 overall placement.
Since 2014, Mizzou football has been ranked in the preseason poll just once, when they came in at No. 11 ahead of the season last year. That made sense considering the astounding season they had in 2023.
Its no doubt that Coach Drinkwitz and the rest of the program doesn't care for rankings and media pressure, made clear most recently by their decision to opt out of the new Netflix documentary, SEC Football: Any Given Saturday, which Mizzou was just about the only team in the conference to not be a part of.
Even though they don't care for rankings, especially ones before the season even starts, its important that they don't let it distract them for finishing the offseason strong, and then letting their work on the field do the talking.
Drinkwitz and his team kick off the season later this month, as they host Central Arkansas on August 28th, at 6:30 P.M..