The second rung in the ladder known as the 2024 football season leads our intrepid Tiger squad to Buffalo, a team fresh off of a two-score victory over Patriot League stalwart Lehigh. That might not sound like much to you, the common Missouri fan, but it could have been worse: Buffalo has been on the receiving side of two-straight FCS upsets by Patriot League members Fordham (in 2023) and Holy Cross (in 2022). So...improvement!
Here’s the preview I did of the Bulls back in April. The Bulls have been lost in the woods since miracle worker Lance Leipold left them for kansas, and have been desperate to find the kind of coach who excels at “mushroom” programs that exist in dark corners of the sport but can thrive in the right circumstances.