The margin for error is no more.

Missouri football enters November needing a perfect finishing stretch to make the College Football Playoff field. The Tigers (6-2, 2-2 SEC) lost to Alabama and Vanderbilt in October, which means the best regular-season record that the team can achieve is 10-2.

That, as it so happens, is also commonly viewed as the minimum mark needed for an SEC team to make the CFP field. The playoff committee will reveal its first set of top-25 rankings Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Mizzou’s need for perfection begins with No. 3-ranked Texas A&M on Saturday, Nov. 8, in Columbia. Both the Tigers and the Aggies were idle this past weekend.

With four games left to play in the regular season, here is where various national media outlets have Missouri projected to play in the posts

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