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SEC Announces Oklahoma Kickoff Time at Missouri

The Sooners and Tigers have been targeted for an evening kickoff this week in Columbia, and the SEC finally revealed the official start time on Sunday.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables locks arms before the Maine game.
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Nighty night, Sooner Nation.

Oklahoma on Sunday learned its official kickoff time for this week's Southeastern Conference clash at No. 25-ranked Missouri, and after four straight daytime kickoffs, the Sooners are back under the lights.

OU and Mizzou kick off at 6:45 p.m. at Faurot Field in Columbia.

It'll be OU's first night kickoff since the Tennessee game back on Sept. 28. The Sooners have started their last four games at 2:30 p.m. (Auburn and Texas) or 11 a.m. (Ole Miss and Maine).

The Tigers are 6-2 on the season, while OU comes in 5-4 after beating the Black Bears 59-14 in Norman on Saturday.

Missouri's last game was a 34-0 loss at Alabama two weeks ago. The Tigers were off this weekend.

The OU-Missouri game will be carried by SEC Network.

The Sooners lead the all-time series with Mizzou 67-24-5, but they haven't played since 2011 in Norman, and haven't met in Columbia since 2010. In 2012, the Tigers left the Big 12 and joined the SEC.

OU's last win at Missouri was in 2006, when the Sooners beat the Tigers 26-10. Before that, Oklahoma had only lost twice (1998, 1983) in Columbia since 1981.

The Sooners are coming off their best performance of the season, a 45-point domination of the FCS Bears. OU put up 665 total yards, including 381 rushing.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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