The only things you can learn about your FBS team playing is FCS team is bad. Close games, injuries, lackluster tactics and play calls...all things bad.
If you win? Cool, you were supposed to, that’s why you forked over however many hundreds of thousands of dollars to play them. If you lose? Well...see above.
Obviously FCS teams upset FBS teams all the time, and it’s already happened this year!
But Mizzou has never lost to an FCS team and that trend continued through this year. Awesome.
As such, my keys to the game were essentially:
- Win
- Don’t have anybody get injured
- Play your young guys
And other than some minor scares with Brett Norfleet and Theo Wease, that’s exactly what happened.