Barry Odom cracked a can of Coke, took a sip. He put it off to the side of a Mizzou football step-and-repeat, and approached the podium.
Looking down, he took a breath and then addressed the media.
The gravity of what happened — and what nearly happened — in a 43-29 loss to second-ranked Georgia was obvious.
“It hurts when you pour everything you’ve got into preparing,” Odom said. “It rips at your soul.”
“The self-inflicted things that we did allowed that game to go the way that it did,” Odom went on to say.