Missouri·SEC

2017 — The 2017 Season

Missouri's 2017 season (7-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 7-6
Final result Bowl season Lost the Texas Bowl
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ +6.5 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Miss Sta 72-43 L vs S Caro 13-31 L vs Purdue 3-35 L vs Auburn 14-51 L @ Kentucky 34-40 L @ Georgia 28-53 W vs Idaho 68-21 W @ UConn 52-12 W vs Florida 45-16 W vs Tennes 50-17 W @ Vander 45-17 W @ Arkansas 48-45 L vs Texas 16-33 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2017.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Missouri 68, Idaho 21. A 47-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Missouri 14, Auburn 51. A 37-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Missouri fell to Texas 16-33 in the postseason.

"M-I-Z"
— Missouri fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Missouri — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.