re: Anyone follow Parker Fleming on Twitter? Re: Mizzou Game

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According to this week's graph, Mizzou should have won as they had the higher success rate.

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I admittedly don't have a clue how PFF and other analytics driven folks derive their info, but I don't see how you can make this claim. If someone wanted to say OSU in the bowl game "should have won", ok I could entertain that. But not Saturday.

Missouri has a stellar offense that has QB/RB/WR that are atop or near the top of all league rankings. 2 of those 3 were almost fully shut down. In the first half they gashed us with QB runs and we totally shut that down in the second half. For as explosive as their offense is, we held them to 1 TD and 1 FG in each half. We held their QB to numbers well, WELL below his season average. Our QB was his typical accurate self and threw 2 TD and 0 turnovers. We were better on 3rd down, gaind more yards, had less pentalites, had less turnovers.

I mean, I just don't see any way that you can say they "should have won". If his whole point was the turnovers or their timing, that's a shite excuse. The opening kick of the game we fumbled completely on our own, that is a turnover play (had we turned it over) where you can say yeah that was entirely on us. Both of cook's interceptions were the result of our defense. Let's also not gloss over the THREE times their center snapped the ball while the QB was looking to the sidelines and it landed right in his breadbasket and the play still went off, or hte ridiculously incompetent officiating.

Hell now that I'm thinning about if we shoudl've won by more.