Missouri·SEC

2023 — The Top-10 Year

Missouri finished 2023 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.

Record 11-2
Final result 11-win season Won the Cotton Bowl Classic
AP final #9 post-bowls
SP+ +11.6 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Sout Dak 35-10 W vs Midd Ten 23-19 W vs Kans Sta 30-27 W vs Memphis 34-27 W @ Vander 38-21 L vs LSU 39-49 W @ Kentucky 38-21 W vs S Caro 34-12 L @ Georgia 21-30 W vs Tennes 36-7 W vs Florida 33-31 W @ Arkansas 48-14 W @ Ohio St 14-3 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2023.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2023 season's largest margin: Missouri 48, Arkansas 14. A 34-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Missouri 39, LSU 49. A 10-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Missouri beat Ohio State 14-3 in the postseason.

"M-I-Z"
— Missouri fanbase voice · 2023· synthesized
What it meant

2023 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.