After three games in which Missouri failed to respond after critical mistakes or momentum-changing calls, the Tigers did just that in a 65-33 blowout of Memphis on Saturday.
This was a critical game for Missouri, not just because it was the next one following the Alabama juggernaut. Memphis kicked off a key second-half of the season, one in which the first three games provided no sacrificial lambs.
Is Memphis a dominant Group of Five team? No. But at the same time, the visiting Tigers are not Idaho or UConn from a year ago.
What Missouri did to Memphis — running a team out of the building, a team that nearly upset tenth-ranked UCF a week ago — deserves credit.