COLUMBIA, Mo. — The last time Missouri’s defense has been this dominant, this oppressive, America was at its most depressive.
In 1935, in the heart of the Great Depression, the Tigers opened their season with a new head coach named Don Faurot. They didn’t allow a point through their first two games under the man whose name now adorns Mizzou’s playing surface, holding William Jewell and Warrensburg Teachers College — now Central Missouri — scoreless.
No MU defense started a season with back-to-back shutouts between that 1935 campaign and Saturday when the Tigers beat Buffalo 38-0.