{"id":161400,"date":"2025-06-27T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/161400\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:37:11","slug":"illinois-missouri-cancel-2026-2032-football-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/161400\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois, Missouri cancel 2026, 2032 football games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Missouri Tigers\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/missouri-tigers-13505085.jpg\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Fighting Illini and Missouri Tigers have canceled their previously-scheduled football games in 2026 and 2032, it was reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No official release has been issued by either school at press time. Six games in the Arch Rivalry remain on the docket.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Illini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Illini<\/a> AD Josh Whitman (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlliniAD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@IlliniAD<\/a>) has confirmed the Illinois-Missouri football series has retracted two games (2026 &amp; 2032). <\/p>\n<p>Illinois-Mizzou\u00a0Future Football\u00a0Dates:<br \/>2027: in Columbia<br \/>2028: in Champaign<br \/>2029: in Columbia<br \/>2033: in Columbia<br \/>2034: in Champaig<br \/>2035: in Columbia<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Stevens (@matthewcstevens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewcstevens\/status\/1938280995297374518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information will be shared on this announcement as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri and Illinois have met 24 times on the gridiron in a series that began back in 1896. The Tigers defeated the Fighting Illini in their last six meetings, most recently in 2010, and currently lead the overall series 17-7.<\/p>\n<p>FOOTBALL SCHEDULES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbschedules.com\/ncaa\/illinois\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois Football Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbschedules.com\/ncaa\/missouri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri Football Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The Illinois Fighting Illini and Missouri Tigers have canceled their previously-scheduled football games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,1682,1684],"class_list":{"0":"post-161400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-illinois","10":"tag-missouri"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114752772200691033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}