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Missouri football was once an afterthought as the student body feverishly waited for November and the start of basketball season.
Those days are long gone though, and Tuesday’s announcement by the university’s athletic department drove the point home further. Missouri, which has been ranked all season and is still barely in the AP Poll at No. 25, which is enough of an indication that things are just different now with Tigers football, achieved a pretty cool standard when it was announced it had sold out reserve seating for every home game this season.
Tiger Nation has now reserve seating for EVERY home game inside Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium this season.
We couldn’t have created an elite home-field advantage without you #MIZ pic.twitter.com/Kjk0VBqqIU
— Mizzou Athletics (@MizzouAthletics) October 29, 2024
That achievement became official as Missouri sold out its reserve seating for the regular-season finale on Nov. 30 against Arkansas in Columbia.
The 6-2 Tigers have another home game before the late-season showdown with the Razorbacks, as they host old Big 12 rival Oklahoma on Nov. 9 after a bye in Week 10.
Missouri’s College Football Playoff hopes might’ve been dashed last Saturday in that 34-0 thumping at Alabama, but Tigers football still matters and Mizzou’s fans are showing that in 2024.
“We couldn’t have created an elite home-field advantage without you,” tweeted the Missouri athletic department in Tuesday’s announcement that shows the days of just waiting around in September and October for basketball season to start are long over.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
