COLUMBIA, MO. • Last Saturday at West Virginia, Samson Bailey hunkered over the football and snapped it 100 times in his first college start for Missouri.
A thousand miles away in Boca Raton, Fla., twin brother Ben Bailey lined up at right tackle for Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Yes, his first college start, too.
What are the odds?
Samson, Mizzou’s redshirt sophomore center, had lost track of Ben’s place on the SIUC depth chart once preseason camp began in August, but soon discovered after MU’s 26-11 loss to West Virginia that Ben was in the Salukis’ starting lineup at Florida Atlantic.