Tiger Kickoff

The Tigers lost for the first time this season.

Missouri 31-17 loss to Nebraska hit the Tigers hard, but they knew that they'd have to move on quickly.

Missouri's senior leaders say that in order to play at the level the team has reached, the Tigers need to forget about the gravity of the situation, the rankings and the attention.

For the past several weeks Will Ebner has dealt with an injury that sounds less painful than he said it feels. The junior linebacker has a dancer’s fracture.

Missouri's victory over Oklahoma made the Tigers' game with Nebraska an unofficial Big 12 North Championship game. Early in conference play, it is a two-team contest in the division, and Saturday's outcome could make or ruin the season for either team.

Missouri students flooded the field after the Tigers upset the BCS No.1 Oklahoma Sooners.

Deep within the forest of fans, it was nearly impossible to distinguish your location. A thick skyline of signs blocked every legitimate view of ESPN's "GameDay"  stage.

When Trey Millard was 17 and a four-star recruit at Rock Bridge High School, he made a verbal commitment to Oklahoma. It didn’t go over well around town.

Tigers come to Columbia from far and wide for MU's Homecoming celebration. But others are already here.

Several other universities, including Illinois, Baylor and Indiana, also claim to have invented homecoming.

Having the GameDay crew on campus will give Missouri students and fans a chance to appear in force.

Tim Folley and his buddies’ tailgate attracts attention. Sizzling fajita meat and never-ending sausage links bring old friends together, but it’s the Army truck that draws first-timers.

The ability of the 12th Man, as Aggies fans are called, to change the results of a game played on Kyle Field is hard to ignore. Those who underestimate it put themselves in serious peril.

In high school, T. J. Moe and Carl Gettis started a close relationship that continues today with the Missouri football team.

Jacquies Smith has filled Aldon Smith’s void on the field. It’s making up for Smith's mouth that’s the real challenge.

The Big 12 was on the brink of extinction. What's in store for the 10-team conference now?

Twenty years ago, the Missouri football team lost to Colorado in a game that lives on in football history as one of the most controversial ever — the fifth down game.

The $850,000 payment for last Saturday’s football game against San Diego State is the largest of the three guarantees that Missouri is paying in 2010. “These one-game deals are what we call guarantee deals, and guarantees have skyrocketed,” said Mark Alnutt, Missouri’s Senior Athletics Director of Administration.

James Franklin has been wearing a string of alternating black and white beads with a black and white Superman charm hanging prominently from the bottom since his senior year in high school. Although the necklace may look like something a teenager threw together in just minutes, it has deep significance to the Missouri football team's backup quarterback.

For some Tigers football players, a bye week is a mental respite. Others will take the time to heal physically. Local players will go home for a meal cooked with love, some will sleep the time away, and others will fish.