For all the talk about undefeated Kansas, there's a team in their own conference with nearly just as much at stake these next few weeks in the Missouri Tigers. Yes, Missouri is 9-1 with a loss to Oklahoma and thus likely out of the national championship race.However, if the Tigers win their next game and beat Kansas, they will be on their way to the Big 12 Championship Game for a rematch with Oklahoma. Win there and it's a BCS appearance. Strong play from quarterback Chase Daniel and some unexpected stumbles from the other two Heisman front-runners could vault their quarterback from out of nowhere into becoming the next Heisman Trophy winner.
It's not out of the realm of possibility.
Most intriguing is that Las Vegas thinks the Tigers are plain better than the undefeated Jayhawks.
Another clash college football observers are anticipating is the Nov. 24 meeting between Kansas and Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City for the right to play Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship. That contest certainly will have national title implications."I like what Kansas is doing, but K-State is its only win over a ranked team this season and that K-State team was just blown out by lowly Nebraska 73-31," Boyd observed.
"It will take a win over Mizzou and a Big 12 title game victory before I'm ready to jump on this bandwagon."
White likes Missouri over Kansas and is looking at the Tigers as a 2 1/2 to 3-point choice. LVSC's weekly power ratings have Missouri sixth and Kansas ninth.
It's put up or shut up time for the boys from the Show Me State. Their loss to Oklahoma was closer than the score indicated and keyed by a fumbled exchange between quarterback and tailback. That's not how you want to go down to a power team like that and I have a hunch the Tigers are motivated enough to shake off their choke job ways and steamroll to the Big 12 Championship game for that rematch.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-15-2007 @ 1:54PM
James said...
Any team who is ranked between 3-9 is going to complain they are being overlooked.
For the most part, they had a cupcake schedule,,they had the chance to beat a ranked team and blew it,,so no, I dont think they are being overlooked..
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11-15-2007 @ 3:06PM
l duca said...
be care ful ohio state will be right back in the thick after saturday and the others go down
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11-18-2007 @ 3:44PM
John Coctosan said...
If your going to talk cupcake schedules Missouri isn't even in the same conversation as KU. The Tigers are being overlooked and it will stay that way until Nov. 24th when the Tigers stomp KU.
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11-16-2007 @ 6:46AM
Gamecock Man said...
With the Oregon loss, Mizzou will have a chance to make the title game. KU and Oklahoma are ahead of them, and if they win out, they'll beat both of those teams. At this point, I'd take them over some of the other options if that were to happen.
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