COLUMBIA, Mo. — It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Meetings feel optional, emails are next year’s problem and the holiday slowdown is settling in.
That’s not quite the dynamic inside Memorial Stadium’s South End Zone, where a Cotton Bowl-tinged Toughness Tuesday allows for no such reprieve. After a bit of a reprieve for recovery and final exams, No. 9 Missouri football is back and preparing for its Friday, Dec. 29, clash with No. 7 Ohio State.
“It’s getting ramped up now,” cornerback Kris Abrams-Draine said. “We’re doing more back-to-back practices and stuff.”
Mizzou (10-2) and Ohio State (11-1) will travel to the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Saturday, giving the teams a little less than a week to prepare on-site for the final game of the season.