Missouri Tigers

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The Missouri Tigers intercollegiate athletics programs represent the University of Missouri, located in Columbia. The name comes from a band of armed Union Home Guards called the "Fighting Tigers of Columbia" who, in 1864, protected Columbia from Confederate guerrillas during the American Civil War. The University of Missouri (often referred to as "Mizzou" or "MU") is the flagship institution of the University of Missouri System. Mizzou is a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and is one of two NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision programs in Missouri. Its men's wrestling program, the only wrestling program sponsored by an SEC member school before Oklahoma joined the conference in 2024, competes as an affiliate member of the Big 12 Conference. Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Missouri was a charter member of the Big 12 Conference, which was created with the merger of the former Big Eight Conference and four schools from the former Southwest Conference (one of these schools, Texas A&M, joined the SEC with Missouri in 2012), and which began athletic competition in the 1996–97 academic year. Missouri competed in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association starting in 1907, which officially changed its name to the Big Eight Conference in 1964.