The SEC showdown between the Auburn Tigers and the Missouri Tigers, it's a huge one.

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Mizzou.

I'm Zach Blackerby with Locked-on Auburn.

He is John Miller with Locked-on, Missouri.

It's never too early to look at the top games coming up at this upcoming football season.

And John, before we clicked record, I mean, this is a big one.

Both teams agree, probably not either team's biggest game of the season,

but it's certainly top three, top four when you look at this one.

Auburn heads to Columbia, Missouri later this season on October 19th.

This is a game where like if Auburn needs to overachieve,

they need to win. If Missouri needs to kind of keep this momentum that you guys have built behind Eli Drinkwitz, y'all need to keep that momentum going. You need to defend off the Auburn Tigers.

What's the Missouri side of this when you kind of go through the schedule and you look at this game?

I think you kind of said it. Obviously, Auburn is a huge program, big time name, bigger name

historically than Missouri. And yet Missouri sitting here in a position where beating the Auburn Tigers

is kind of a must-win game. If the Tigers are going to meet their goals, which to me

is making the 12-team playoff, I don't see how you can lose to Auburn and make that happen.

Right. Yeah. And I think that kind of shows where both of these teams are, because Missouri's in

that mindset of, okay, we need to make the college football playoff this year, the 12-team

playoff.

And Auburn's kind of been this like, okay, can we win eight games?

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