Ol’ Mizzou needs just one win in its next two games to be bowl eligible, and after watching their recent dominance, this might seem like a comfy cushion you’d find knitted for a mid-Missouri craft fair.
But for the sake of this exercise, let’s presume Mizzou loses Saturday, and thus has one more chance to get its sixth win:
You’d have an unsteady Mizzou team, coming off an embarrassing upset loss at Vanderbilt, going back on the road, this time to Arkansas, taking on a coach fighting for his job and a seething team looking for revenge following an upset loss of its own in last year’s meeting.