{"id":417927,"date":"2026-10-03T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417927\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:02:09","slug":"live-game-thread-missouri-hosts-red-hot-florida-on-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417927\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Game Thread: Missouri Hosts Red-Hot Florida on Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Entering Saturday, the Florida Gators are one of the nation\u2019s most talked about teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The program appears to be in the early stages of a resurgence under Jon Sumrall, reaching No. 8 in the AP Poll (the team\u2019s highest ranking since 2020) following a 52-28 demolition of then-No. 4 Ole Miss in the Swamp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">They enter Saturday favored over a Missouri squad that faces lingering questions from a 3-1 start. The Tigers have been good, not great, and that wasn\u2019t enough to beat a tough Mississippi State team playing in front of a raucous crowd under the lights at Davis Wade Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But it\u2019s tough to go into Faurot Field as the road team and steal a win unless you\u2019re truly elite, making this matchup a bellwether for both sides and their ambitions for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We\u2019ll have the most notable updates from the 115th Homecoming Game at Mizzou here in this article. For all of our live updates, check our forums over at <a href=\"https:\/\/rockm.plus\/forums\/forums\/mizzou-football-talk.22\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RockM+<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entering Saturday, the Florida Gators are one of the nation\u2019s most talked about teams. The program appears to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,57965,57966],"class_list":["post-417927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-mizzou-football","tag-mizzou-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}