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What’s The Trend: Week 11

Welcome to the series, ‘What’s The Trend,‘ which highlights the biggest risers and fallers in the Mizzou Football world each week! Mizzou is coming off heartbreaking loss at home against No. 3 Texas A&M, and is looking to bounce back and finish the season with 10 wins. Here are this week’s trends: On the Rise […]

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Disrespectful Play Index: Ahmad Hardy runs against the dying of the light

Two poems that I often see quoted by sportswriters: “Do not go gentle into that good night,” by Dylan Thomas and, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred, Lord Tenyson. You probably know them, they’re quite famous. I thought about these two poems writing this week’s Disrespectful Play Index. Because what happens when you’re […]

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Commute: Drinkwitz addresses Green’s play call concern

Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we are talking about Mizzou Football! In case you missed it, Missouri suffered its third defeat of the season this weekend. Following the game, MU captain and offensive lineman Cayden Green said to media that Texas A&M’s defense felt a step ahead of Mizzou’s offense during the matchup. “I […]

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Tiger Talk Notes and Quotes: Mississippi State Edition

Eli Drinkwitz and Mike Kelly returned to Harpo’s Tuesday night for another edition of Tiger Talk. The Tigers’ head coach had a lot to say on the loss last week to Texas A&M, and where the program is at right now despite struggles against elite competition the last two seasons. Here’s what Drinkwitz, senior STAR […]

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Beyond the Box Score: 2015

Look…I’m not asking for much. From the moment I saw Beau Pribula face down in the Vanderbilt turf, any fleeting thought of Playoffs, conference championships, and 30 wins in 3 years went right out of my mental window. No college team can do that sort of thing with a 3rd-string freshman quarterback and I went […]

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The Revue: Oops, Mizzou gave me an existential crisis again!

There comes a point during every Mizzou Football season when it becomes very difficult to write this column. I’ve found this to be the case regardless of how well the Tigers are playing, though it certainly comes sooner when they suck. After all, who wants to read the, “hey want to read some stuff about […]

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Commute: News and Notes on Mizzou Hoops

Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we’re talking about Mizzou Hoops Mizzou Basketball is 3-0 on the young season. After surviving an upset scare vs in-state opponent SEMO on Friday night, the Tigers had a better overall performance in a 106-68 victory over VMI Sunday afternoon. In the latest power rankings, Missouri checks in at […]

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Photos of the week: 11.03.2025

There was a lot going on this week, so get ready for a variety of coverage! Volleyball fell to no. 2 Kentucky in four sets on Friday and football lost to the no. 3 Aggies of Texas A&M on Saturday. Men’s basketball took on Virginia Military Institute for the first time and won 106-68 on […]

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Week 12 Opening Odds: Can Mizzou stop the slide?

All of the sudden, it’s been almost a month since Mizzou won a football game. That’s sort of hard to fathom. For the past two and a half years, we’ve become pretty used to Mizzou winning most of their games. You have to go back to early October 2022 for the last time the Tigers […]

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Study Hall: Mizzou 106, VMI 68

It’s never easy to watch the other team go bombs away, especially when a healthier clip of them are going in that might normally. That was the case for Missouri as they saw VMI connect on 9 of 22 three points in the first half, en route to the Keydets only being down 10 points. […]

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SBN Reacts: Mizzou Fans Were Unfortunately Wrong

Missouri’s College Football Playoff hopes are officially over after a 38-17 loss to Texas A&M on late Saturday afternoon. There was some optimism heading into this game that Mizzou could potentially pull off the upset at home. In our latest SBN Reacts survey, we asked what the outcome of Missouri vs Texas A&M will be […]

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MV3: Few Bright Spots in Mizzou’s 38-17 Loss to Texas A&M

Missouri’s College Football chances officially came to an end on Saturday with a 38-17 loss to No. 3 Texas A&M — dropping them to 6-3 (2-3 SEC) on the season. Even in the losses prior, Mizzou was at least competitive against Top-15 teams vs Alabama and Vanderbilt. That was … not the case against Texas […]

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Luther Burden returns from injury, helps Bears to big win

Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we’re talking about Luther Burden III. Because football is better in Chicago these days than in Columbia (unfortunately). It’s been a tough few weeks for the former Mizzou star in Chicago. He’s had a slow roll out under Ben Johnson and that was before a concussion knocked him out […]

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Mizzou storms to a decisive victory over VMI

In Mizzou and VMI’s first ever meeting on the court, the Tigers displayed their strength as they reached triple digits in an 106-68 victory over the Keydets. The team moves to 3-0 on the season with a clean track record over opening week. The game started in favor of VMI with the Keydets maintaining the […]

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Mizzou Wrestling Earns Fourth Straight Tiger Style Invite Title

Tournament season began for No. 15-ranked Tiger Style at the Hearnes Center. Mizzou welcomed Little Rock, Purdue, Oklahoma and South Dakota State for the Tiger Style Invite. The win streak was kept alive as the host team won the invite for the fourth straight year, this time with a final score of 146.5 points. All […]

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Expectations shift for Mizzou after loss to A&M

Mizzou entered Saturday holding onto its College Football Playoff hopes by the slimmest of margins, hoping to pull off an upset of third-ranked Texas A&M and stay in the chase for at least one more week. Slowly at first, and then in overwhelming fashion during the second half, the Aggies crushed those hopes with a […]

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Texas A&M Aggies run over the Mizzou Tigers in rout to victory

Death by a thousand cuts. That’s what the 38-17 loss to #3 Texas A&M felt like. Fans left Faurot Field defeated as their College Football Playoff hopes drifted into the abyss. It was a game filled with stinging moments and gut punches.  “Yeah, I mean, it got off to a really slow start,” said Head […]

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Five Takeaways from Mizzou’s 38-17 loss to Texas A&M

Mizzou’s sterling first half defensive performance wasn’t enough to hold off the Texas A&M Aggies, who broke through in the second half and left the offensively-challenged Tigers in the dust. Here are your five takeaways from Mizzou’s third loss of the year. 1. Knowing what to expect Call it boundless optimism — is that allowed […]

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Live Game Thread: Mizzou returns to Faurot against Texas A&M

After a last-ditch effort to force overtime fell one inch short two weeks ago against Vanderbilt in a 17-10 loss, Mizzou’s margin of error to reach the College Football Playoff dropped to zero. And the Tigers’ tall task was heightened further when they learned starting quarterback Beau Pribula would miss an extended period of time […]

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Study Hall: Mizzou 89, SEMO 84

If you’re having the feeling of déjà vu that’s because we’ve been here before. For three plus years now, Dennis Gates has preferred to load up on Quad 4 games in November. And now, for the fourth straight year the Tigers have found themselves in a dog fight early in that schedule. In 2022, they […]

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Rock M Pick’ Em: Week 11

The College Football regular season is winding down. Coming off their bye week, Missouri has four games remaining with their CFP hopes on the line as 22nd-ranked Mizzou hosts No. 3 Texas A&M in Columbia. ESPN’s College Gameday heads to Lubbock for BYU at Texas Tech and some other key games highlight the Saturday slate. […]

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PREGAMIN’ TEXAS A&M

WELCOME BACK TO PREGAMIN’ HERE’S YOUR JAM OF THE WEEK IDK MAN, THIS FEELS LIKE THE RIGHT VIBE FOR THE WEEK DON’T MAKE ME ANALYZE IT Rock M-ixology The theme of the week? Getting back to basics. I thought about quite a few thematic angles I could take for this drink — cocktails to heal […]

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