COLUMBIA, Mo. — No. 8 Alabama and No. 14 Missouri face off Saturday in an SEC game with College Football Playoff implications.<\/p>\n
Missouri (5-0, 1-0 SEC) is cruising early this season, and has become a contender in the conference over the last three years, but hasn’t quite yet been able to take the final step in joining the elite. A 25-5 record is impressive, but the Tigers have lost to the best of the best — Alabama, LSU and Georgia — during that time.<\/p>\n
The stage is set for an epic showdown at Faurot Field, where Mizzou hasn’t hosted a top-15 showdown since 1979, but that changes with the clash against the Crimson Tide (4-1, 2-0) kicking off at noon ET.<\/p>\n
For Missouri, history is on the line, but so is its immediate future as a player in the College Football Playoff race. The Tigers are one of only four remaining undefeated teams in the SEC, yet they’re the eighth-highest-ranked team in the AP Top 25 this week. They’re led by the nation’s leading rusher, running back Ahmad Hardy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alabama has rebounded nicely since its season-opening loss at Florida State, snapping Georgia’s 33-game home winning streak two weeks ago and then pulling away for a 30-14 win last week against Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n
The Tide have won six straight against Mizzou, with the last loss coming in 1975 in Columbia.<\/p>\n
Keep it locked here with CBS Sports for live updates, highlights and analysis as Alabama battles Missouri in a marquee Week 7 showdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA, Mo. — No. 8 Alabama and No. 14 Missouri face off Saturday in an SEC game with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8802,26189,150938,150934,150937,150939,1428,55434,20970,150940,8805,62,150936,20980,67,132,68,150935],"class_list":{"0":"post-295313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","9":"tag-alabama-football","10":"tag-alabama-vs-missouri-odds","11":"tag-alabama-vs-missouri-score","12":"tag-alabama-vs-missouri-time","13":"tag-alabama-vs-missouri-tv","14":"tag-college-football","15":"tag-eli-drinkwitz","16":"tag-kalen-deboer","17":"tag-missouri-football","18":"tag-missouri-tigers","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-talabama-vs-missouri-prediction","21":"tag-ty-simpson","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-where-to-watch-alabama-vs-missouri"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115356964247155060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}