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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri football will face Iowa in the Music City Bowl.
The Tigers (9-3, 5-3 Southeastern Conference), placed at No. 19 in the final College Football Playoff rankings of the season, will duel with the Hawkeyes (8-4, 5-3 Big Ten) at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 30 in Nashville, Tennessee.
It's a matchup that was supposed to take place in the same game in 2020 but was canceled due to a COVID-19 breakout.
"It's an honor to be selected to participate in the TransPerfect Music City Bowl," MU coach Eli Drinkwitz said in a statement. "We're looking forward to the opportunity to play at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. It's a great market for our alumni and fanbase and I know we'll have an excited crowd. Our team has worked extremely hard to achieve this goal, and we are looking forward to preparing and playing against a terrific Iowa squad. I'm just thankful I get to coach this special group of men for one more game this season."
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Missouri wound up missing out on a spot in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff by just a handful of spots, still landing inside the top 20. That makes the Music City Bowl something of a consolation prize for a program that put together a season better than its usual form but below the potential presented by a favorable schedule and wide-open field of contenders.
MU should have most of its roster available for the bowl game, save for a couple of key players. Wide receiver Luther Burden III and right tackle Armand Membou, both of whom declared for the NFL Draft this week, will opt out of the game.
Mizzou has played Iowa 13 times, dating back to 1892. But the Tigers and Hawkeyes have played just once since 1910: the 2010 Insight Bowl, which Iowa won 27-24.
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