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Run up an 11-2 record with a New Year’s Six Bowl win, and the expectations change on your doorstep.
When that coincides with a change to the college football landscape, the expectations change nationally.
Missouri football is coming off its best season in a decade, as the Tigers went 10-2 through the regular season and defeated Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl, where they took the No. 9 spot in the College Football Playoff rankings.
The College Football Playoff is expanding to 12 teams this year. Last year, Mizzou would have been in had that format been in place.
This year, the schedule seems set up favorably for Eli Drinkwitz’s team. Here’s how:
Missouri, outside of its nonconference slate, either plays a team it beat last season (Vanderbilt; South Carolina; Arkansas), a team with a new coach (Alabama, Texas A&M, Mississippi State) or at Faurot Field (Oklahoma; Auburn) in all 12 games on the schedule.
If the Tigers are ever going to make the all-in call, 2024 shapes up to be the time.
Now, have they got the cards?
The Tribune broke down Missouri’s transfer acquisitions for the 2024 campaign:
Missouri football found capable backup to Brady Cook at QB
Arizona State Sun Devils quarterback Drew Pyne (10) warms-up before playing the Fresno State Bulldogs at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe on Sept. 16, 2023.
Portal additions: Drew Pyne (Arizona State); Harold Blood Jr. (walk-on, Southern)
Missouri did exactly what it needed to do here. Brady Cook is the starter, but when backup Sam Horn was lost for the season due to Tommy John surgery, options got a little light, as Jake Garcia and Gabarri Johnson had transferred out of the program in the winter window.
Drew Pyne has 19 career appearances over four seasons between Arizona State and Notre Dame, which makes him as capable a backup as the Tigers were likely to find. In the event…
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Author : Columbia Daily Tribune
Publish date : 2024-05-16 08:04:23
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