Take everything you saw on a football field in Amherst, MA on Saturday, October 11th and throw it away.
Keep the win. That’s important. That’s real and worth it.
Nothing else was, though.
UMass is, essentially, an FCS team that’s in Year 13 of its multi-year process of becoming an FBS team. Missouri still has Playoff aspirations.
The NCAA would have you believe that these two teams are the same. Clearly they are not.
Whether you want to find long-term positives or long-term negatives from those 60 minutes, just save yourself the trouble and ignore them.