Directly after Missouri’s win against Arkansas, you couldn’t help but feel some sense of optimism for the future of the program. The highly maligned offense we’ve seen all season put up their highest point total in SEC play and it felt like something sustainable may had finally been figured out on that side of the ball. They had just beaten a rival and gotten to a bowl game in a season where you couldn’t help but feel like they had left a lot of meat on the bone, so to speak.
This is a 6-6 football team, yes, but if you watched them over the course of the season, you’d know the difference between this team finishing with 6 wins rather than 9 wins was a razor thin margin.