COLUMBIA, Mo. — The bye week is over, and Missouri is soon onto its next round of four games before another open weekend.
The No. 9 Tigers, (4-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) moved up in polls despite spending Saturday at their leisure, the byproduct of losses by teams such as Mississippi.
Mizzou’s season is a third over already, which means some statistical trends should be starting to emerge. It’s early for anything particularly definitive to stand out, and there’s plenty of time for evolution. Nonetheless, here are four stat-based trends from the first four games of MU’s campaign:
Staying in motion
While deep passing results haven’t exactly carried over from offensive coordinator Kirby Moore’s first season calling plays with Mizzou to his second, some of his concepts have.