Mizzou fans will need to move fast if they want to be inside Faurot Field for the Texas A&M game on Oct. 10, because the Tigers are officially sold out of single-game tickets for that matchup, Mizzou Athletics announced Tuesday afternoon.
There are still limited hill tickets available, but the main-ticket inventory is gone for a game that will bring back last year’s meeting, when Mizzou fell 38-17 to the CFP-bound Aggies. This week’s game against Troy is sold out as well.
Tuesday also brought a personnel move for Mizzou Athletics, which named Angie Jabir as Deputy Athletics Director for Olympic Sport Leadership and Senior Woman Administrator. Jabir comes to Columbia from Stanford, where she served as Executive Associate Athletics Director for Sports Administration and Senior Woman Administrator.
According to the department, she’ll be part of the Senior Leadership Team and oversee Mizzou’s Olympic sports programs, working with head coaches on competitive success, student-athlete development, operational effectiveness and long-term growth. She starts at Mizzou in October.
Her background stretches across multiple stops around the country, including Siena College, Lynn, Nova Southeastern University and Dayton. She also coached women’s college basketball at Dayton, Cleveland State and Wisconsin-Whitewater. Jabir is from La Crosse, WI, and played college basketball at Eastern Illinois.
On the football side, Eli Drinkwitz is keeping the focus tight after Mizzou’s recent win over KU. With undefeated Troy coming to Columbia, he’s stressing the need to clean things up just as much as he’s highlighting what went well.
“We’re one week away from being humble,” Drinkwitz said Tuesday.
There was plenty for Mizzou to like against KU, but also enough mistakes to leave room for correction. The Tigers have won their last two games against Troy, though nobody around here needs a reminder of 2004.
From the player side, Donovan Olugbode explained why he picked Mizzou, saying: “It felt like a family atmosphere, close to home. [Wide receivers coach Jacob Peeler], I feel like he’s good at developing receivers and is a good coach. And I trusted what coach Drink had going with this program, so it ultimately led me to choose Mizzou.”
Peeler’s work with the wideouts has been a real bright spot. And over the first two games, Mizzou’s offense has shown something that would have sounded strange not long ago: it’s been better at using the pass to move the chains than the run.
Olugbode and Lee combined for eight first downs via the forward pass, while Jamal Roberts produced one. On the season, Roberts has only one more first down by run than Matt Zollers, who has carried the ball just six times.
Against kU, 11 of the 14 first downs came through the air.
Josh Matejka also weighed in on Morder, calling it a place that looks “rad as hell” despite being “a horrid place full of death and decay and consumption and rot.” He added that the design has “a steely, yet sludge-like sheen” and said the architecture and landscape make it feel like a place worth exploring, even if “everything in my marrow is screaming, ‘Evil!’”
He also said, “I have to admit, and this might get me into trouble… I kind of feel this way about Lawrence, Kansas too.”
And on that note, he said, “Lawrence is a…unique town. But, I prefer Columbia any day of the week.”
Also, how did Mizzou do in Week 1 of the 2026 regular season?
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Missouris defense got a welcome jolt in the Border War, and it came from a player who is still just scratching the surface of what he can become. Defensive end Daeden Hopkins was named Co-SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week after he spent the game harassing Kansas quarterback Isaiah Marshall, finishing with eight pressures in the matchup. For a Missouri front that has been searching for more consistent disruption, Hopkins performance stood out as the kind of edge presence that can change how an offense has to play.
Hopkins, a 19-year-old underclassman, has already piled up 12 pressures this season and sits among the nations top players in that category. Eli Drinkwitz has pointed to the work ethic and development behind the jump, noting that Hopkins has added weight while also becoming more reliable against the run. The bigger question now is whether this was a breakout night or the start of Missouri finally having the pass rusher it has been trying to find. [Read more 🡒]
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Drinkwitz Knows Mizzou Has Two Problems That Could Get Exposed Fast
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Drinkwitz said he took responsibility for the problems and noted that changes have already been made to address them, which matters because the schedule ahead will not offer much room to breathe. Missouri has to get sharper in a hurry, especially with cornerback play still searching for consistency and the margins getting thinner against tougher opponents. [Read more 🡒]