College football is weird.
Yes, when you have a good team and a bad team, it’s a pretty good bet that the good team should win. But that’s not what always happen.
Earlier Saturday, No. 6 Wisconsin, who was 6-0 and had College Football Playoff aspirations, lost on a last-second field goal in a stunning loss to the previously 2-4 Illinois. In one fell swoop, the Fighting Illini might’ve ended the Badgers’ national championship hopes. So when you have a No. 22 Missouri on the road for the first time in six weeks against a 1-5 Vanderbilt team that just lost to UNLV a week ago, it’s entirely plausible that weird things are going to happen.