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.