The Mizzou athletic department officially announced earlier Friday morning that the Tigers have agreed to a home-and-home series with the West Virginia Mountaineers.
“We are very pleased to add a team the caliber of West Virginia to our schedule,” Bryan Maggard, Missouri’s Executive Associate Athletic director, said in the school’s release. “We feel like this is a game that is appealing to the fan bases of both programs and it helps us both add high-profile non-conference games to our schedules.”
SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: #Mizzou and West Virginia agree to home-and-home in 2016, 2019: http://t.co/RropEV84oi pic.twitter.com/qQZX5FXlK1
— Mizzou Football (@MizzouFootball) November 7, 2014
According to the school’s release, Missouri will make the trip up to Morgantown, West Virginia on Sept. 3, 2016. The matchup will be Missouri’s season-opener. West Virginia will make the return trip to Columbia, Mo., three years later on Sept. 7, 2019.
Dave Matter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was the first to report the agreement between the two universities.
Report: Missouri-West Virginia agree to football series for 2016, 2019 http://t.co/7Sou0NL7y6
— Dave Matter (@Dave_Matter) November 7, 2014
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