The Border War college football rivalry is officially back on.
Kansas athletics announced Saturday morning that the series with Missouri would continue in 2025 after a 14-year hiatus, with four dates now agreed upon.
In September 2025 and 2031, the Jayhawks will travel to face the Tigers at Faurot Field, according to the Kansas announcement. Missouri will travel to Lawrence for games against Kansas in September 2026 and 2032.
Missouri had yet to make its own announcement as of noon Saturday.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to reignite one of college football’s oldest rivalries,” Kansas head football coach Les Miles said in a statement. “Anytime you bring two football teams on the field with that history, I think it will excite our student-athletes and fans, and will certainly be a great battle on the field.”
Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk wrote in an email to donors April 9 that “a four-game football series (with Kansas) is being contracted as of this writing.”
No games at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City were announced as part of the newly contracted quartet of Border War matchups.
The schools officially announced a six-game men’s basketball series last year that is scheduled to start this December at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
Two games in the six-year annual hoops series will take place at the Sprint Center, with the other being the final contest agreed to as of now in 2025. A pair of games at Mizzou Arena and Lawrence’s Allen Fieldhouse, respectively, are scheduled from 2021-24.
Missouri and Kansas haven’t faced off in football or men’s basketball in an official capacity since the Tigers departed the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference in 2012.
The Jayhawks defeated the Tigers in a men’s basketball preseason exhibition in 2017 in Kansas City.
“Hopefully this renewal on the hardwood will lead to more opportunities down the road in other sports, too,” Sterk said of the rivalry in October. “Rivalries make college sports great, and there is no question that when Missouri and Kansas face off in any sport, it’s important to a lot of people.”
The last gridiron showdown between the schools was Nov. 26, 2011 — a 24-10 Missouri victory.
The football teams met for 91 consecutive seasons from 1919 to 2011, as the 1918 flu pandemic canceled the game that year. Missouri and Kansas played on the gridiron every year from 1891 to 1917 as well.
Missouri leads the all-time football series 56-55-9.
“It goes back for generations and it’s going to continue to go to generations forward,” former Missouri football coach Barry Odom said last year about the rivalry.
Perhaps the most notable football meeting between Missouri and Kansas was dubbed “Armageddon at Arrowhead” in 2007, when the Tigers defeated the Jayhawks with both teams ranked in the top three in the country.
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