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Mizzou playing for a national title?

Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007, at 5:51 PM

With Ohio State going down today, does that open the door for the Tigers?

LSU is probably going to be our new No. 1 while Oregon moves up to No. 2 with a big game at UCLA looming. That leaves three Big 12 teams in the picture (Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri) with the winner of the Big 12 title probably getting a shot if LSU or Oregon stumble.

West Virginia (8-1) has an outside chance at No. 6 with only Hawaii still unbeaten going into tonight's game against Fresno State.

It's been a crazy college football season, so anything can still happen right?

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Lets win at K-State and then beat Kansas first. Then we have to beat Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship. THEN we can talk about a national championship appearance. But I do love how we're at least mentioning Mizzou as a possibility.

-- Posted by jean__valjean on Sat, Nov 10, 2007, at 6:02 PM
Jean__valjean, you are such the Mizzou fan (as am I) since we are waiting for the bottom to drop out or not get too excited because we have been so disappointed in the past. Brian Burwell wrote a great article about this feeling earlier in the month. November has been a brutal month for us.

But in the mean time GO TIGERS!!!!!

-- Posted by Always_Learning on Sat, Nov 10, 2007, at 9:01 PM
hahahahahahahahaha Are you serious??? hahahahahahahahaha

-- Posted by SEMO Redhawks on Sat, Nov 10, 2007, at 10:03 PM
Missouri will annihilate Kansas. They have one of the fluffiest schedules in Division 1. I think it's 98/120. Don't put much into their 10-0 start.

-- Posted by NoDisclosure on Sat, Nov 10, 2007, at 11:27 PM
you will have to excuse him, when he reads football hes one of those guys that thinks soccer.

-- Posted by richiro33 on Sun, Nov 11, 2007, at 12:53 AM
GO TIGERS! Beat Kansas State!

-- Posted by semohoops on Sun, Nov 11, 2007, at 4:43 PM
I would think K-State will be highly ticked off after that pasting handed out by Nebraska yesterday. Plus Mizzou hasn't defeated the Wildcats in Manhattan since 1989.

-- Posted by gianthook on Sun, Nov 11, 2007, at 5:37 PM
The only way that Mizzou makes it to the National Championship is...

Oklahoma, Kansas and Mizzou have to win this week.

We have to beat Kansas and if Oklahoma plays they have to win.

We have to beat Oklahoma in the BIG 12 Championship.

LSU has to lose in the SEC Championship.

With all this, then Mizzou will compete for a National Title.

The only other way would be if LSU doesnt lose and we jump them because we beat back to back top 4 teams.

People are cheering against Kansas, but that is not what we need. We have to beat them either way. It will help us in the long run if they are the #3 team in the country as opposed to the #8,9,12 team. Kansas is going to be the best team that Mizzou has played this year. I am almost sure MIZZOU will be the dog. I hate Kansas, but that game scares me.

-- Posted by HeHateMeToo on Mon, Nov 12, 2007, at 9:04 AM
Kansas is definitely for real. I don't care what kind of schedule they've played, they are a legitimate top 10 team and we will have our hands full in this one. I just want to beat K-State first, then we'll worry about Kansas.

-- Posted by semohoops on Mon, Nov 12, 2007, at 10:29 AM
Missouri will be favored in against Kansas in terms of betting odds. The group in Las Vegas that sets the betting lines have their own poll. They have Mizzou at #6 and Kansas at #9, so on a neutral field Mizzou will be favored. Link to poll: http://www.espn920.com/skin/graphic.php?sectionId=178&contentId=707763

-- Posted by yessir on Tue, Nov 13, 2007, at 12:03 AM
Honestly all Missouri has to do is win out. If Mizzou just worries about one game at a time things will fall into place. Kansas and OU will likely win this week so that means if Mizzou beats (#3 or higher at this point in time) KU that will be a quality win over a top 5 ranked team which should move OU and Mizzou up in the rankings. Then Mizzou will be in the same situation with OU the following week in the Big 12 Championship, they win it's another quality win over a top 5 school. Then Mizzou would be sitting either 2 or 3 depending on how the computers rank them. I think Oregon would likely fall to 3 because of the fact that Mizzou would have played one more game then the Ducks. Also this scenario could happen. LSU could either lose to Arkansas their last game of the regular season, or lose to Georgia in the SEC Championship. If they lose and Mizzou wins out, Tigers play for a National Championship hands down. Regardless in the big picture of things Missouri just needs to win the rest of their game, they hold their own future.

-- Posted by USC_2860 on Tue, Nov 13, 2007, at 8:33 AM
Kansas might be a legitimate top 10 team, but not a top 3. All the sportcasters around the globe keep saying "when" as in "when kansas loses" things will shape up.

-- Posted by NoDisclosure on Wed, Nov 14, 2007, at 8:20 AM
LSU lose last night opened the door for BIG MO. to be NO.1,and go for the National Championship GO TIGERS this is our year. I hope the sportcasters see MIZZOU is for real and put us NO.1 and not WEST VIRINIA after we we beat KANSAS.

-- Posted by sammy2 on Sat, Nov 24, 2007, at 10:38 AM
LSU lose last night opened the door for BIG MO. to be NO.1,and go for the National Championship GO TIGERS this is our year. I hope the sportcasters see MIZZOU is for real and put us NO.1 and not WEST VIRINIA after we we beat KANSAS.

-- Posted by sammy2 on Sat, Nov 24, 2007, at 10:41 AM
Every true son, so happy hearted,

Skies above us are blue,

There's a spirit so deep within us,

Old Missouri here's to you (RAH! RAH!).

When the band plays the Tiger war song,

And when the fray is through,

We will tramp, tramp, tramp around the Columns,

With a cheer for Old Mizzou!

HIT IT!

HOORAY, HURRAH, MIZZOU, MIZZOU!

HOORAY, HURRAH, MIZZOU, MIZZOU!

HOORAY, HURRAH, AND A BULLY FOR OLD MIZZOU,

RAH! RAH! RAH! RAH!

MIZZOU-RAH! MIZZOU-RAH! MIZZOU-RAH, TIGERS!

-- Posted by NoDisclosure on Sat, Nov 24, 2007, at 1:33 PM

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