2015 Missouri Tigers football team

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.[2]

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.[3]

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 5	3:00 p.m.	Southeast Missouri*	No. 24	Faurot Field Columbia, MO	SEC Alt.	W 34–3 (vacated)	64,670
September 12	6:00 p.m.	at Arkansas State*	No. 21	Centennial Bank Stadium Jonesboro, AR	ESPN3	W 27–20 (vacated)	29,143
September 19	11:00 a.m.	UConn*	No. 22	Faurot Field Columbia, MO	ESPN	W 9–6 (vacated)	70,079
September 26	6:30 p.m.	at Kentucky	No. 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 (vacated)	66,751
October 10	6:30 p.m.	No. 11 Florida		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.	No. 24 Mississippi State		Faurot Field Columbia, MO (SEC Nation)	ESPN	L 13–31	58,878
November 14	6:30 p.m.	vs. BYU*		Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City, MO	SECN	W 20–16 (vacated)	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 Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game All times are in Central time

Schedule Source:[4]

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.[5][6]