Mizzou has a new nonconference opponent on its 2025 schedule.

Per a competition agreement obtained by the Columbia Daily Tribune through an open records request, Missouri football has added Central Arkansas to its 2025 noncon slate. MU will pay the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team a total of $500,000 for what is commonly known as a ‘buy game.’ The news was first reported by Eli Hoff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The Tribune also confirmed various reports that the Tigers have canceled their game on the road against Miami-Ohio, which was scheduled in 2016 under former athletic director Mack Rhoades for Sept. 13, 2025.

Multiple reports have indicated Missouri bought the game out under former AD Desireé Reed-Francois in 2023, meaning MU owes the Oxford, Ohio, institution $750,000 instead of the $1 million it would have cost to cancel the game this year, per details included in the original competition agreement.

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Missouri will now open its 2025 season against Central Arkansas, with the game against the United Athletic Conference team set for Aug. 30 — a Saturday. All of Missouri’s nonconference games are now set to be played at home.

Per the contract, the game against Central Arkansas was agreed upon in April 2021 under former athletic director Jim Sterk, meaning MU had five scheduled nonconference games — one more than the limit — for about two years.

Mizzou will face Kansas in Columbia as the football Border War returns for the first time since 2011. The Tigers have four games — two at home, two on the road — scheduled against the Jayhawks between 2025 and 2032.

UMass, which the Tigers travel to face this upcoming season, and Louisiana also will visit Columbia in 2025, with both games slated for that October. MU is set to pay UL $1.5 million for that one-off matchup, per the competition agreement signed in 2021.

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In total, eight games are now set to be played on Faurot Field in 2025, with Alabama, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Mississippi State set to visit during SEC play. Mizzou will visit Arkansas, Auburn, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt next year.

Before that comes, Mizzou has its 2024 slate to complete. The Tigers will open the upcoming season against Murray State on Thursday, Aug. 29 against Murray State in Columbia.

This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri football adds Central Arkansas to 2025 nonconference schedule