Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz becomes latest SEC coach to make ridiculous complaints about Big Ten schedules

The more that college football changes, the more some things remain the same. In this case, SEC coaches complaining about schedules.

Ah. So that's the problem. The Big Ten hasn't had enough tough non-conference games. Well, let's take a look at Missouri's non-conference schedule in 2025 under Drinkwitz, shall we?

Real murderers' row of tough teams, isn't it? Even better, Drinkwitz and Missouri's schedule was so hard they played, and this is not a misprint, six straight home games to start the season. They opened the season on Aug. 28, and their first road game of the year, and again, this is not a misprint, was Oct. 18.

They played four road games, at Auburn, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. They went 2-2. Their total distance traveled from Columbia all season, was 1,805 miles. Big Ten Conference team USC played a road non-conference game against Notre Dame, which is nearly 2,100 miles from Los Angeles. One Big Ten team traveled more for a single game than Missouri did all season. "And that stuff matters," as Kiffin said when making farcical, inaccurate excuses for the SEC's recent underperformance.