Editor's note: On Sept. 9, 1978, heading to South Bend as 17-point underdogs, the Missouri Tigers ushered in the Warren Powers era with an upset for the ages. Here is the Post-Dispatch original account of that game.
SOUTH BEND, IND. - The Missouri Tigers ushered in the football coaching era of Warren Powers here Saturday in a manner that will leave them hard put to come up with an encore. They beat national champion Notre Dame!
The stunner was not only that they upset the team that was supposed to beat them by 17 points at home, but even more the way they went about it.