You totally miss the point. A&M would be in the top 25 if they had not lost to Mizzou. You love to cherry pick your stats...but you completely suck at it and you get owned every time you do it. You really should give up already.

Where does Sagarin rank Mizzou (given that it, ostensibly, factors in things like strength of schedule etc)?

Cuts both ways. Maybe the 8 losses you took to the good teams overinflated their ranking too no? But let's use your logic and make it 2-8 so we don't cherry pick.


MU is 9-8 in league play. Their wins were over teams who went a dreadful 22-50.

Missouri 9th

Kansas 126th

I am sure that is just a keyboarding or other computer failure....Sagarin will tweek their formula and put out corrected standings soon enough.

Baylor s chip bowl victory will be forgotten sooner than that fluke beaker fruit bowl.

Big Game Bob matches up against Alabama, huh? Well...he gets his chance to back up all the shit he talked in the preseason. I'm sure he's excited about that.

There's an affirmative action joke in here somewhere.

Yes, we did find out.

Oklahoma is a 14 point dog to Alabama.

This Bowl game will be the second biggest game in MU football history (behind 2007 Kansas). Win and you get your 2nd top-10 finish in 40 years to tie Kansas in that mark. Lose? Your season is completely invalidated and fraudulent, and people will realize you still can't compete with decent Big 12 teams either.


Critical.

Well the important thing is what does Paul Finebaum think of all this?

You are on a roll today. I'm sure Mizzou fans everywhere are trembling at the thought of a Kansas fan calling us frauds if we only win 11 games and the SEC East.

You might be better served figuring out what's wrong with Wilt Wiggins and the boys. I don't know what is funnier...that you were an underdog to Colorado...or that Colorado covered.

Every team that left the Big 12 has as many or more wins than Kansas right now. Keep running your mouth, though.

It's going to be funny watching Stoops pluck his comments about Big 12 superiority out of his arse after Saban and his boys put them about 3 miles deep in there.

I wonder if he knows MU has wins over teams who are 22-50 in league play. I should email him to get his thoughts on this factoid.

He'll win because Saban will take the Texas job /wickedson

I guess I should have posted this here instead of the Mizzou football thread, you know, for the cock measuring.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Local TV ratings for Saturday in KC. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Mizzou&amp;src=hash">#Mizzou</a> got a 18.5 rating on CBS, Sporting pulled a 4.3 on ESPN, and KU Basketball a 1.8 on ESPN2.</p>&mdash; Danny Parkins (@DannyParkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/DannyParkins/statuses/410092639615070208">December 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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The biggest game in Mizzou football history was almost certainly last Saturday. The 2nd biggest was almost certainly the 2007 Big XII championship game. Win either of those and Mizzou is in the National Championship game.

The Cotton Bowl? Eh, just another bowl game. It's a good one that should be damn entertaining. Getting a prime-time slot is going to be pretty great. But this game isn't any more critical than the last time we were in the Cotton Bowl.

It's clearly more important than whatever shithouse Shreveport Bowl we'd invariably get relegated to in the past, but it's hardly one where I consider the season lost if we don't win it.

Probably should have stayed away from the whole ratings thing...

no Kansas City in the top 6.

1. Birmingham: 48.2/68
2. St. Louis: 22.1/39
3. Knoxville: 21.1/33
4. Memphis: 20.3/29
5. Atlanta: 19.9/38
6. Nashville: 19.8

It's incredible what winning in the SEC does in terms of exposure. CBS was all Mizzou all day starting with the UCLA game in basketball as the appetizer for the SECCG in football.

So, lots of people in Mizzou's primary recruiting territory watched the game. Yeah, that sucks.

Stolen from BourbonMan's post in another thread....thought I would drop it in here just for some more posturing/excuses.

Missouri entered the Associated Press college basketball poll Monday at No. 24. The Tigers, 9-0, beat UCLA on Saturday, dropping the Bruins from 18th to out of the poll.

Also Monday, Missouri’s Jordan Clarkson was chosen Southeastern Conference men’s basketball player of the week for the second time this season. Clarkson, a junior guard, has scored 20 or more points in five consecutive games. He was also chosen national player of the week by College Sports Madness.

MU’s next game is at 6 p.m. Sunday vs. Western Michigan at Mizzou Arena in Columbia.

Arizona, 9-0, is the new No. 1 team, moving up one spot and getting 63 of the 65 first-place votes. Syracuse got the other two first-place votes and is second, followed by Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State.

Four Big 12 teams (No. 7 Oklahoma State, No. 13 Kansas, No. 14 Baylor and No. 17 Iowa State) are ranked. Three SEC teams are ranked (No. 11 Kentucky, No. 19 Florida and Missouri).

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/09...#storylink=cpy

Not sure what your point is. What else did those cities have on television that was a draw for viewers?

So minor league soccer got more viewers than ku basketball? Hilarious.

I was wondering why Bambi and Bitch were screaming so hard for attention lately. Seeing those ratings for their basketball team explains it. Seems nobody cares about anything coming out of Lawrence. When soccer nearly triples your audience, you're not part of the national conversation.

Of course, those were KC numbers...I guess they aren't much more than a footnote locally, either.

Only 140% more, though...and it was a big soccer game...biggest minor league soccer game of the year.

Lol I would be surprised if that game even got 2.0 nationally.

Bet ESPN wouldn't bump Kentucky or Duke to ESPN2 for a soccer game.

Football is more important than basketball. Shocking.

But minor league soccer?

I would bet everything I own that the majority of posters on here couldn't name five teams in the MLS...probably not even three teams.

That Birmingham number is stunning as it matched the KC market for te Bills game a few weeks back. Obv they all had a rooting interest there. The SEC ratings were down 13% from last year and were lower than the Iron Bowl last week. So it's pretty clear who folks were tuning in to see around the South. Still good exposure for Mizzou, too bad they were humiliated.

The Baylor game drew, what...a 2 or something like that? That was the de facto Big 12 championship game. Brutal.

At least it was 3-3 at the half, though. Boring punt-fest in the first half? Check. Boring blowout in the second half? Check.

KU regular season basketball game gets lower ratings than two Championship games is shocking?

Kansas-Duke drew almost as many viewers as Notre Dame-USC. And 4x what Nebraska-IL did.


I looked up Nebraskas ratings. Highest I could find was vs Michigan. Which had about 1/3 the viewers that Kansas-UNC elite 8 2012 did. Of course those football teams suck now.

KU Basketball on a 2nd tier cable channel on a Saturday afternoon pulled a 1.8 while the Missouri game against a marquee program on a network only drew .88

Ouch

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/article...atings-28.html

Down a field goal going into the 4th is being humiliated? Hell, we had the lead at about the mid-way point of the 3rd.

Mizzou lost. We've owned that. But they held their own against a team that's going to play for the national championship. They were ill-prepared for a team that played a style of ball not seen all season; shit happens.

They didn't quit. They didn't roll over. They gave Auburn all they could handle until the end. A short field leading to a gimme TD after a failed desperation 4th down made the score lopsided but that was a damn compelling football game.

'Humiliated' is counting a victory in the spring scrimmage among your Ws.

Missouri’s athletic department announced Monday that the school’s allotment of 13,500 Cotton Bowl tickets sold out in less than 10 minutes after they went on sale to the general public.

According to MU, fewer than 1,000 tickets went on sale to the public at noon Monday. The rest went to Tiger Scholarship Fund donors and season-ticket holders who placed presale orders.
MU’s original allotment was 12,500 tickets, but the school got an extra 1,000 from Cotton Bowl officials late Sunday night.
The game is officially sold out, but tickets are available on the secondary market, including Vivid Seats, which is MU’s official secondary ticket provider.
Oklahoma State is the Tigers’ opponent in the Cotton Bowl, which kicks off at 7 p.m. Jan. 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Copyright 2013 The Kansas City Star. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/09...#storylink=cpy

Nobody cares about college basketball the ratings established this.

Soccer game nationally got a .5

Did you read your own link?? Or are you just grasping at straws and jumping at a false point?

KU basketball drew a 1.8 LOCALLY. Sporting more than doubled that.

MU-UCLA drew a 0.88 NATIONALLY, across 56 media markets. Not in its own backyard, where KU got the paltry 1.8 rating. It was also on at 11:30am here, which put it at 8:30am on the left coast. I would think timeslot plays a factor as well.

That's pretty good for the championship game of a league that is the 7th-8th best league in the world.

Sporting KC is to the Premier League champion as the champion of whatever league the T-Bones play in is to the major league champion...

Auburn is good agreed. Things turned out as they should with the Cotton being evenly matched. Playing FSU would've been bad for Mizzou obviously.

Guess that helps my notion that the "but Mizzou doesn't travel well" narrative was set by the fact the JerryWorld is so huge..


EDIT: $200+ for decent seats at a non-BCS bowl? **** that man.

I said it in the Mizzou thread and elsewhere - Auburn's offense was a horrible matchup for Missouri.

The defense is predicated entirely on getting after the QB and creating bad down/distance situations for the offense. If you can pick up 4-5 yards routinely running the ball on first down, Mizzou's DEs can't do what they do well - get after the QB and make stops in the backfield.

Getting stomped by Auburns offense does not have me convinced that we'd have gotten stomped by FSUs. Or even Alabama's. Mizzou has a long history of being unable to deal with the option and this year's defense simply wasn't designed with stopping the option in mind (nobody in the division or non-con slate ran it with regularity).

It was a perfect storm of circumstances that kept Missouri from being able to do what it needs to do to win football games - get a couple of stops early, get the lead and unleash their pass-rushers.

They didn't get humiliated; they ran into a piss-poor matchup and still gave a credible performance. This team has no reason to hang its head.

This.

I was proud of Pinkel for going for it on 4th and 1 from his own 20 when down 10 with less than half a quarter left rather than pulling a Bob Stoops and punting the ball to keep the score respectable.

No shame in a 10-point loss to Auburn. They're the better team and proved it on the field. Missouri wins MAYBE 2-3 out of 10 matchups against Auburn. Basically would need to play a perfect offensive game and win it like the Colts won the playoff game against KC in 2003.

Poor Bambi. He doesn't understand the difference between local and national.

So RGIII is reportedly benched for the rest of the season in favor of Cousins. I was sure that a Baylor QB was going to be the first player from the Big 12 to have a successful NFL career.

Well...good luck to Chelf and Petty.

Wow

Sold out already?

Wow, and Mizzou did not have to get Lew Perkins to buy up a bunch of tickets.

Kansas generates significantly more revenue that MU so that affords us opportunities they don't have.

FYP

like paying several former football coaches at a time and sitting your ass home when it comes to bowl season, yeah?

thought so.

Why are human polls worthless? Mike Gundy just voted his team better than OU. Both are 10-2 (7-2). He did this a day after being punked by OU in his own stadium. Human polls rule!

I'd say the two de facto national semifinals we've played in over the last six years to your (zero ever?) are a might more important than the Cotton Bowl.

Great, so your two biggest sporting events in your history you were housed. You must be so proud.

You'd think someone who rooted for a FB team that has won around five percent of its last forty conference games would know the correct definition of housed.

Prison Bitch, never change.

You guys should use all that cash and start a football program.

Or buy out a coach or three.

I think they spend it all on a few things:

1) Supporting the love children of fine student-athletes such as Sherron Collins, so they can afford to remain in college for 3-4 years without worrying about how to support their families

2) Creating convenient jobs for the family members of high profile recruits. "Your dad's a bus driver! Awesome! We've been needing someone with his experience on our staff. How does Director of Basketball Operations sound?"

3) Buying out football coaches (almost forgot this one)

3-40

ok.

Lawrence wives will be beaten tonight

Poor wickedson his team is the 3rd best in the sec

You guys jerk off to banners raised for losing in national semi final games

I went to Mizzou arena once. They hung banners for winning the league. If we did that there wouldn't be room in the Phog.

Kansas basketball has three losses already? Mizzou football and Mizzou basketball have two...combined.

You would think with all of that as well as the Brinks trucks of money KU makes every year someone, heck anyone would have wanted KU during the whole realignment thing. Sadly no one did.

So much irony. It's delicious.

Yeah...I saw that tweet, too.

Beakers going to hit double digits with the "good losses" this year

Can't have 30+ win seasons every year. No big deal.

Will still probably have a really good time by the time March Madness rolls around, though.

What tweet?

Who wins more championships this season...league, tournaments, etc?

KU or MU?

Ok....


Well I think KU will win more. I think it will take 1 to beat the total number of titles MU football and basketball combine for...

LMAO

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That old fart is hilarious ROFL Loved the butthurt he caused when he picked the beakers to finish 3rd one year

if you're counting secondary sports like basketball, why not volleyball?

I hope Iowa State gets Kentucky or Mizzou in the challenge next year. I think we have a shot at once since Kansas can't play Kentucky because or their thing going on with Duke and MSU(can't remember that that tournament is called) and Kansas won't play Mizzou.

So let me get this straight. Mizzou crushed West Virginia, and Kansas...who refuses to play Mizzou...got their doors blown off by Florida...but Kansas fan is talking shit about the SEC/ Big 12 basketball challenge?

This is too perfect.

Shit like this makes me wish the SEC actually gave a shit about basketball just to see what those schools could do...somehow, it's funnier that they don't care, though. Kansas is watching everything unravel right before its eyes...but 9-0 Mizzou NEEDS to play 6-3 Kansas. Florida, UCLA, and Kentucky will just have to do, I guess.

Rustshack might finally be right about something. Iowa State looks like the superior team by a wide margin so far.