2015 Missouri Tigers football team explained

Year:2015
Team:Missouri Tigers
Sport:football
Conference:Southeastern Conference
Division:Eastern Division
Short Conf:SEC
Record:0–7
Wins Vacated:5
Conf Record:0–7
Conf Wins Vacated:1
Head Coach:Gary Pinkel
Hc Year:15th
Off Coach:Josh Henson
Off Scheme:Spread
Oc Year:3rd
Def Coach:Barry Odom
Dc Year:1st
Def Scheme:4–3
Stadium:Faurot Field

The 2015 Missouri Tigers football team (also called "Mizzou") represented the University of Missouri in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It marked the Tigers' fourth season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the Eastern Division. The team played its home games at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri. They were led by 15th year head coach Gary Pinkel, in what would be his last season as the team's head coach.

Due to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) action, all of Missouri's wins for the 2015 and 2016 seasons were vacated.[1]

Schedule

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]

Schedule Source:[4]

NFL Draft

See also: 2016 NFL draft.

4 128 C Arizona Cardinals
5 144 C Denver Broncos
5 150 LB Minnesota Vikings

Campus protests and resignation of Tim Wolfe

See main article: 2015 University of Missouri protests. 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023 Football Quick Facts . 2023-10-24 . University of Missouri Athletics . en.
  2. Mizzou Football 2015 Schedule Announced. University of Missouri Department of Athletics. October 14, 2014. November 21, 2014. November 29, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129035807/http://www.mutigers.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101414aab.html. dead.
  3. Arrowhead Stadium to Host Mizzou-BYU in 2015. University of Missouri Department of Athletics. November 13, 2014. November 21, 2014.
  4. Web site: 2015 Missouri Tigers Football Schedule. FB Schedules. November 21, 2014.
  5. News: Black Football Players Lend Heft to Protests at Missouri. Marc. Tracy. Ashley. Southall. The New York Times. November 8, 2015. November 9, 2015.
  6. Web site: Why Missouri's Football Team Joined a Protest Against School Administration. Rohan. Nadkarni. Alex. Nieves. Sports Illustrated. November 9, 2015. November 9, 2015.