COLUMBIA, Mo. — Oh, the Auburn memories.
Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz has plenty of them. Some are bitter — like the taste of the few blades of grass that lay between his team and a victory the last time he coached against Auburn. Some are sweet, like the national title he won with the blue-and-orange Tigers early in his coaching career.
Saturday’s matchup between No. 19 Mizzou (5-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) and Auburn (2-4, 0-3 SEC) will be a strange blend of those memories and something entirely different.
Let’s get eating the veggies out of the way first: MU’s last tangle with Auburn was up there with the most mind-boggling, frustrating finishes in program history — no fifth down, to be clear, but etched in Missourian woes nonetheless.