COLUMBIA, MO. • The Missouri Tigers are shipping up to Boston — in five years.

Mizzou and Boston College announced a two-game football series for 2021 and 2024, with the Tigers set to visit Chestnut Hill, Mass., to play the Eagles on Sept. 25, 2021. Boston College will conclude the series with a visit to Columbia on Sept. 14, 2024.

The two programs have never played in football. It will mark Mizzou's first regular-season games against a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference since a two-game series with Clemson in 1996 and 2000. Missouri hosted Syracuse in 2012 but that was before the Orange joined the ACC.

Boston College is one of seven teams in the five power conferences Missouri has never played, along with Florida State, North Carolina State, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and Washington.

“Boston College is certainly a quality program with good name recognition, so we feel this is an attractive matchup for our fans," Mizzou executive associate athletics director Bryan Maggard said. "It also gets us into an area in the Northeast where we don’t often get to, and we certainly have a lot of Mizzou alumni in that region who will have the chance to see their Tigers in person."