AMHERST, Mass. — Saturday afternoon in Massachusetts looked a little bit like Monday night football.
Not the NFL’s primetime product, to be clear, but Missouri’s weekly intrasquad scrimmage and practice designed to highlight younger players by giving them some competitive reps that has gone by the same name.
The No. 21 Tigers blew out UMass 45-3 on Saturday, which — combined with a couple of injuries and absences — created quite a bit of opportunity for the kids to cook.
Some of them did.
Asked what he made of the shifts logged by the players deeper on Mizzou’s depth chart, coach Eli Drinkwitz was happy to disagree with the premise of the question.