Mizzou is back at square one after a no-show today at Kansas State. PowerMizzoucom explains:
—For a little less than an hour on Saturday afternoon at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, it appeared maybe Missouri would have a chance to settle in and make a run at Kansas State. Then the lightning delay ended and the Tigers and Wildcats started playing football again.
Self-deprecating humor aside, nobody involved with Missouri should be smiling on this Saturday. That in year three of theera, the Tigers came to Manhattan as an eight-point underdog to a Kansas State team predicted to finish fifth in the Big XII Conference is a problem. It’s a bigger problem that the line should have been much, much higher.
Missouri didn’t have to win this game, although, you know, that would have been allowed. It did have to compete. Missouri called a timeout after two consecutive television timeouts. It took a delay of game when punting. It threw short in the field of play and ran when trying to execute a two-minute drive without a timeout at the end of the first half. Briefly in position to make something of a game out of it, Missouri threw an interception out of its own end zone and extended the ensuing Kansas State drive with a facemask. It followed that up with three more picks on three consecutive passes.