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Matter on Mizzou: Odom has Tigers on road to recovery

COLUMBIA, Mo. — After his team pummeled SEMO 50-0 in the 500th game at Memorial Stadium, Missouri coach Barry Odom did something rarely seen — perhaps never seen — at the 93-year-old home of Tigers football: He crossed Faurot Field after the postgame handshake and ran along the berms to slap hands with the Mizzou students still standing after the three-and-half-hour game.

If Larry Smith or Gary Pinkel ever high-fived the students after a game, I missed it. After a game that played out exactly like most figured, this was THE scene of the night. (As captured below by ABC 17’s Tyler Murry.