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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
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.
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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.