As much as we all wanted to feel...something? anything?...after the UMass game, that matchup was never going to provide anything to the fan base, other than maybe a few highlights and an official win blessed by the NCAA.
But here’s the game that can give you something. Vindication. Hope. A chance to wash out the bad taste of A&M. A validation of those holding out to the thought that Missouri is a Playoff-caliber team that had one of the worst singular days in recent history.
But it requires beating an Auburn team that is much better than its record indicates and has not lost to Missouri since 1973.