Beyond the Box Score: Taking care of business

This will be quick because, frankly, there’s really not much to learn from games like this. The first-teamers put away SEMO within about three minutes of actual game time and the backups gave up some scores late. Yawn. Count the W, move on.

But I did want to revisit the checklist I put together for this game to see how they ended up doing. I’ll also share a few interesting nuggets because, yes, I was able to find some points of interest in this one-sided fist fight.

First up, the advanced box score:

Look at Missouri’s yards per play and points per scoring opportunity; that’s how you tell someone you played an FCS team without actually saying you played an FCS team.