Mizzou's 2025 Road Schedule is Favorable for Unique Reason: The Extra Point

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Unlike last season's road schedule, 2025 doesn't feature any trips to the east coast for the Missouri Tigers. Instead, Missouri will only have to make one trip past its border states for a Week 8 game at Auburn.

In 2024, Missouri not only had to play in some of the most difficult places to play, such as against Texas A&M at Kyle Field, but places that were a far hike from Columbia. The Tigers' estimated travel distance of 6,600 miles for the 2024 season ranked as the second-most in the Southeastern Conference.

For 2025 though, Missouri's travel distance ranks at No. 11 in the SEC, per new estimates from Bookies.com.

Not only are all of Missouri's non-conference games at home this season, but three of the Tigers' road games are the three schools in the conference closest to Columbia.

Here's a look at the estimated travel distance for each of Missouri's four road trips.

All three of Missouri's losses in 2024 came on the road. Avoiding long travel not only leads to less rearranging of practice schedules in the days before and after a roadtrip, but also lessens the toll of travel throughout the season.