COLUMBIA, MO. • For weeks Missouri linebacker Terez Hall has talked about playing a bowl game in a tropical climate, usually Hawaii — never mind that the Southeastern Conference doesn’t have a bowl game in Hawaii.
So when the news came Sunday that the Tigers (8-4) will play Oklahoma State in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn., on New Year’s Eve — and not in Florida, notably the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville — Mizzou fans around the state might have shared a sigh of disappointment.
“It would be nice to go somewhere warm,” Hall said Sunday.