Miz-Stl

You have to be kidding me, the refs were so one-sided for the Gators it was ridiculous. I feel like the Tigers just beat two teams, Florida and the refs.

I can't believe a Gator fan had the sack to complain about the refereeing. The game was called very one-sided for Florida.

Mizzou winning made the SEC 5-3 in the postseason and the Big Ten 4-3 in the postseason. Definitely going to be rooting for Boise St. tomorrow night.

No question OU has for the most part owned Mizzou in the past. That being said a new day is dawning for them. Nebraska thought they walked on water too until they switched conferences, and the SEC is a hell of a lot harder than the Big 10.

You would think that with all of the Texas money and the popularity of football in their home state that the Shorthorns would be a football power year in and year out. For some reason it never happens. I can't wait for them to be an annual 8-4 team in the SEC. They aren't Bama or Georgia, they just think they are.

When Mizzou arrived in the SEC over a decade ago I thought the SEC was overrated. I based that on September results and Bowl games, and probably a little Big 12 bias. What I didn't realize until Mizzou played a few seasons in the SEC is that the SEC is tougher for two big reasons. One, the talent level is much higher. All you have to to do is look at the NFL draft and recruiting rankings to know the SEC talent level is higher than the rest of the country. The second is how fanatical SEC fans are. Yes Texas and Oklahoma are great programs; however in the Big 12 they rarely line up against teams with their talent level and their fan base support. In the SEC that is called a fall Saturday. The grind of playing against the high level talent and playing in places with such rabid fans is a gauntlet. I found many of what I thought were good metrics are misleading. September football is not a good indicator because many teams are still figuring out who they are. Mizzou only beat Middle Tennessee by 4 this year yet went 6-2 in the SEC. If Mizzou had played Middle Tennessee in October I believe they would have crushed them. Bowls are a bad indicator because who knows what players show up and how motivated a team is. No, the only way to understand the SEC is to play a SEC schedule. In 2024 OU and Texas get to find out. Good luck!

Not sure why the SEC would want to lower its standards and let in Kansas. The only reasoning I can see is to give Vanderbilt an auto-win in football every year.

In answer to why Mizzou would vote no: because Texas screwing up the Big 12 is one of the reasons the Tigers left the conference. In the SEC, Alabama may rule on the field, but for the most part it appears all the schools have a say in its direction. In the original Big 12 before the four teams left, Texas treated the conference like its own private fiefdom. I know many SEC fans wish that Mizzou wasn't let in, but at least our school doesn't cause trouble. Texas is a virus and you don't let viruses into your system.

boXerrumble, in answer to your original question, I think Mizzou this year is a team that can hang with any team in the East except Georgia. Since they have been in the SEC, most years they seem to play well or above themselves against Florida and Tennessee, get owned most years by South Carolina and Kentucky, and do about what other teams at their level do against Georgia and Vandy.

They got past one of their normal stumbling blocks yesterday.

I agree with an earlier post, if they get past Kentucky then I think it is quite possible their only conference loss will be against Georgia. For whatever reason they seem to always be tough on the Gators even when they aren't as good. With this year being in Columbia, and in November when Odom tends to have his teams playing well, I would be nervous about that game if I was a Gator fan.

Mizzou would be 4th in recruiting in the B12 (and if transfers were accounted for probably 3rd). Mizzou is 13th in the SEC. OU would be 5th in the SEC. Mizzou 31st and Vandy 46th are lowest in SEC. B12 has teams in 70s and even one in 90s. Alabama wins in conference were virtually all against top 25 talent level teams, OU's wins included only one team in the top 25 of recruiting. The point is there is a BIG difference in talent between the B12 and SEC. The Boomer Sooners are about to find that out the hard way.