Ok. So. Obviously the game was not fun and, in a season where Missouri either wins close or gets detonated, the Tigers got packed with a ton of dynamite. Missouri made the trip to Starkville without Jarvis Ware, Tyree Gillespie, fielded the usual thin defensive line, had a hobbled Nick Bolton, and three scholarship cornerbacks - all freshman. The fact that an air-raid offensive team put up 51 on a defense with that composition isn’t a surprise; the surprise is that a.) they didn’t score more, and b.) the manner in which they did it. And with the Tiger defense clearly unable to reliably make stops Connor Bazelak started to press and made some uncharacteristically bad decisions.
Beyond the Box Score: Woof
