Keeping score during the spring game is a pointless exercise no matter what, but if you’re going to do it, you might as well get weird with it. Barry Odom has gone with a simple “points scored by the offense vs. points scored by the defense” approach that ... doesn’t exactly capture the imagination. It led us to long for the good old days of Gary Pinkel’s inscrutable system.
Honestly? Kinda miss Gary Pinkel’s super complicated, impossible-to-understand spring game scoring system. The score would be like 6.5 to 3.4 right now instead of 7-0.
— ROCK M NATION (@RockMNation) April 14, 2018
The Defense could have 5 takeaways, 4 sacks, scores on Defense, allow one touchdown and still manage to lose the spring game
— Del (@Del_Excel) April 14, 2018
No matter what the scoreboard said, however (and at halftime, the scoreboard reset to 0-0), through the simple fact that Mizzou’s offense averaged just 4.