Illinois and Missouri are expected to announce at a news conference Friday that they have agreed to play each other twice in football–in 2002 and 2003–at the TWA Dome in St. Louis.
The Illini and the Tigers last faced each other in 1994 with Illinois winning 42-0 in Champaign.
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That contest was the last of a four-year series that ran from 1991 to 1994 with each team winning twice.
Missouri holds an 11-7 lead in the all-time series.
With Southern Mississippi, Arkansas State and San Jose State already on Illinois’ schedule in 2002–in addition to eight Big Ten games–Missouri would be the 12th game.
Illinois head coach Ron Turner, Illinois Athletic Director Ron Guenther, Missouri coach Larry Smith, Missouri Athletic Director Mike Alden and St. Louis Sports Commission President Frank Viverito will take part in the 3 p.m. news conference at the TWA Dome.
The success of the annual “Braggin’ Rights” basketball game between the two schools at the Kiel Center in St. Louis helped pave the way for the renewal of the border war in football.
Huge pre-Christmas crowds have attended the basketball game for the past 19 years.
The TWA Dome seats 66,000 for football and is home of the Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams.