Now that Missouri has won four straight football games, this season’s dark beginnings can feel like they belong to a different year.
Remember DeMontie Cross? MU coach Barry Odom took playcalling duties from Cross, the team’s former defensive coordinator, a season ago, and Odom fired him just two games into this season.
Firing a coordinator so early into a season is normally a sign of dysfunction — and it looked that way for a while, with MU giving up at least 35 points in each of the next four games. But Mizzou’s defense has tightened up during the winning streak that has followed.