Mizzou football’s first game of the 2025 season is now even closer. Mizzou Athletics announced Thursday that the Tigers will open their season on August 28 in a Thursday night game at Faurot Field. The Tigers will welcome Central Arkansas to Columbia with kickoff set for 6:30 p.m.

The Missouri Tigers are one of six schools competing for the 2026 recruiting class' top overall prospect, Jackson Cantwell. The Nixa, Missouri native named the Tigers as one of his finalists in February, and was expected to make a final decision after taking official visits with each program.

For the fourth straight season, Missouri football will play its season-opener on the Thursday before Labor Day.

For the fourth-straight season, Faurot Field will be rocking on a Thursday night to open up the season. On Thursday, Mizzou football announced that its season opener against Central Arkansas is being moved to Thursday,

Mizzou's 2025 season opener against Central Arkansas has a new date, the program announced on Thursday morning.

The Missouri Tigers’ season-opening football game against the Central Arkansas Bears in 2025 has been moved to Thursday, according to an announcement.

"From this point on, everything’s judged," Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz told the two quarterbacks in the mix for the Tigers' starting job.

However, a recent mock draft from Charles Goldman of A to Z Sports projects that the Chiefs will get a major gift early in the draft by getting a chance to select one of college football's top wide receivers in Missouri Tigers star Luther Burden III. Check out Goldman's full analysis of how Burden would fit in Kansas City's offense below:

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