Unless you’ve been living under a rock, any Arkansas fan is aware of Missouri’s dominance of the Razorbacks since the former joined the SEC prior to the 2012 football season.
Many fans thought that Texas A&M would be more of a challenge than Missouri would, and while Arkansas has certainly struggled with the Aggies, it’s been almost as tough sledding in the ‘Battle Line Rivalry.’
Arkansas owns just two wins since that expansion, in 2015 and 2021, while Missouri has seemingly pulled out every close game in the mean time.
Prior to the Tigers joining the SEC, it was more even. The first meeting was in 1906, an 11-0 Missouri victory in Columbia.
The Razorbacks won a 1944 contest in St. Louis 7-6, then dropped a 1963 outcome in Little Rock by the same score.
In the mid-2000s, the teams split a pair of bowl games. Arkansas finished off a 9-win season in 2003 with a 13-point Independence Bowl victory, while the Tigers romped a 8-4 Arkansas team that had just parted with Houston Nutt a month prior in the 2008 Cotton Bowl, 38-7.
Missouri will take a 10-4 all-time lead into tomorrow’s 3 p.m. meeting in Fayetteville.