Consider this series a quarterly check-in where we’ll examine how the season is going. We will monitor how our expectations change as we move through the season and give out a grade that’s more of a snapshot of the time period than of individual games. And as we move through the season, we’ll highlight certain aspects of scheme that are interesting or working well along with providing a prediction for the four games ahead.
Let's start at square one by defining our expectations:
Expectations are everything
Part of the reason the 2023 Missouri Tigers were such a fun team and will be remembered forever is that they exceeded all reasonable expectations that they had before the season as well as some of the unrealistic ones.