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.