The 2016 Missouri Tigers football team (also called "Mizzou") represented the

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in the

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. The Tigers played their home games at

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in Columbia,

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, and competed in the Eastern Division of the

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(SEC). They were led by first-year head coach

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. They finished the season 4–8, 2–6 in SEC play to finish in last place in the East Division.

Schedule

Missouri announced its 2016 football schedule on October 29, 2015. The 2016 schedule consisted of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Tigers hosted SEC foes

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, and Vanderbilt, and travelled to

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, and

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. The Tigers hosted three of its four of its non–conference games which were against

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from the FCS

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from the

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, and

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from

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. The Tigers played the

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from the

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as an away game. :Schedule Source:

Game summaries

at West Virginia

Eastern Michigan

Georgia

Delaware State

at LSU

at Florida

Middle Tennessee

Kentucky

at South Carolina

Vanderbilt

at Tennessee

Arkansas

References

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