2015 Missouri Tigers football team

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2015 Missouri Tigers football
Missouri Tigers wordmark.png
Conference Southeastern Conference Eastern Division
2015 record 5–7 (1–7 SEC)
Head coach Gary Pinkel (15th year)
Offensive coordinator Josh Henson (3rd as coordinator; 7th overall year)
Offensive scheme Spread
Defensive coordinator Barry Odom (1st as coordinator; 10th overall year)
Base defense 4–3
Home stadium Faurot Field
(Capacity: 71,168)
Seasons
« 2014 2016 »
2015 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
East Division
#25 Florida x   7 – 1         10 – 4  
#22 Tennessee   5 – 3         9 – 4  
Georgia   5 – 3         10 – 3  
Vanderbilt   2 – 6         4 – 8  
Kentucky   2 – 6         5 – 7  
Missouri   1 – 7         5 – 7  
South Carolina   1 – 7         3 – 9  
West Division
#1 Alabama x$#^   7 – 1         14 – 1  
#10 Ole Miss   6 – 2         10 – 3  
Arkansas   5 – 3         8 – 5  
#16 LSU   5 – 3         9 – 3  
Texas A&M   4 – 4         8 – 5  
Mississippi State   4 – 4         9 – 4  
Auburn   2 – 6         7 – 6  
Championship: Alabama 29, Florida 15
  • # – College Football Playoff champion
  • ^ – College Football Playoff participant
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
As of January 12, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2015 Missouri Tigers football team (also called "Mizzou") represented the University of Missouri in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It marked the Tigers' fourth season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the Eastern Division. The team played its home games at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri. They were led by 15th year head coach Gary Pinkel, in what would be his last season as the team's head coach.

Recruits

Schedule

Missouri announced their 2015 football schedule on October 14, 2014. The 2015 schedule consist of 6 home games, 5 away games and 1 neutral game in the regular season. The Tigers will host SEC foes Florida, Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and will travel to Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt.[1]

Missouri will host Mississippi State for the first time since 1984, when the Tigers were playing in the Big Eight Conference, before joining the SEC 28 years later. That match–up against the Bulldogs will be the third Thursday night game hosted by Missouri in Tiger history. This will be the Tigers' first year without Texas A&M on their schedule since 2009, and the first year without any team from Texas on its schedule since 1984.

At the release of the 2015 schedule, Missouri was the only member in the SEC to not complete their entire schedule as the Tigers were still finalizing the game to be played on November 14. One month later after releasing of their schedule, Missouri announced that the game on November 14 would be played against BYU at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.[2]

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 5 3:00 p.m. Southeast Missouri* #24 Faurot Field • Columbia, MO SEC Alt. W 34–3   64,670
September 12 6:00 p.m. at Arkansas State* #21 Centennial Bank Stadium • Jonesboro, AR ESPN3 W 27–20   29,143
September 19 11:00 a.m. Connecticut* #22 Faurot Field • Columbia, MO ESPN W 9–6   70,079
September 26 6:30 p.m. at Kentucky #25 Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, KY SECN L 13–21   58,008
October 3 11:00 a.m. South Carolina Faurot Field • Columbia, MO SECN W 24–10   66,751
October 10 6:30 p.m. #11 Floridadagger Faurot Field • Columbia, MO SECN L 3–21   70,767
October 17 6:30 p.m. at Georgia Sanford Stadium • Athens, GA SECN L 6–9   92,746
October 24 3:00 p.m. at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Stadium • Nashville, TN SECN L 3–10   31,128
November 5 8:00 p.m. #24 Mississippi State Faurot Field • Columbia, MO ESPN L 13–31   58,878
November 14 6:30 p.m. vs. BYU* Arrowhead Stadium • Kansas City, MO SECN W 20–16   42,824
November 21 6:15 p.m. Tennessee Faurot Field • Columbia, MO ESPN2 L 8–19   59,575
November 27 1:30 p.m. at Arkansas Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium • Fayetteville, AR (Battle Line Rivalry) CBS L 3–28   65,228
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time.
Schedule Source:[3]

Rankings

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Further information: 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Final 
AP 24 21 22 25 NR RV NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
Coaches' 23 21 20 23 RV RV NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
CFP Not released NR NR NR NR NR NR Not released


Campus protests and resignation of Tim Wolfe

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Main article: 2015 University of Missouri protests

In the fall of 2015 there were a number of racially charged incidents at the University of Missouri campus. Some students held protests, and some called for the resignation of university system president Tim Wolfe, who they said had not provided a sufficient response to the incidents. On November 7 some members of the Missouri Tigers football team said that they would boycott all football-related activities until Wolfe resigned. Coach Pinkel stated that he supported the players. On November 9 Wolfe resigned as president.[4][5]

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