That Indiana game hurts folks.

Hurts bad. :( Plus I can't take the cracks about it anymore, I wish we would have won that game damn it, we'll never live it down.

Yes it's about as bad of a loss as you can have. When else has a team ever started 7-2 overall and 4-1 in the toughest conference in America yet not even received ANY votes for the top 25? That was us last week.

Yup, you just can't lose to Indiana.

Good example why you don't even schedule scrub arse power 5 teams like that. Schedule better and you don't have to worry about this.

It's the Texas Tech game from 2010 all over again. That was honestly the last time I remember Mizzou losing a game they absolutely should have won against a team that should have been extremely overmatched. And, like the Tech game, it will probably cost them a BCS-ish bowl.

And that's just fine. We need to focus on just winning a damn conference title first. It's been 45 years since we finished 1st place in our conference. That's pretty sad..

One questionable PI call from being in complete control of our own destiny.

Indiana...SMH

Who cares, it's ancient history. Win out and let the chips fall where they may. Whoever the SEC champ is should be in the playoffs. IMO.

I dunno. After we lost DGB I sort of expected an Indiana nut cup type of season.

8-2 far exceeded expectations, so the IU loss doesn't bother me much. We should have lost to SC too.

IMO, this is probably Pinkel's best coaching job ever. He took a team of career back-ups and has them playing with grit and tenacity - and they just win. For the most part they're fundamentally sound and once Pinks realized who they were, he's been coaching them to the team's strengths.

Winning the East would be a hell of an achievement for a team of spare parts.

So it's hard for me to be upset about something that was unthinkable a month ago.

Why? Because the offense has struggled? This team is very much like an LSU team that played for a national championship. This defense is great and so are the special teams normally.

It always looks different from the inside.

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Why? Because the offense has struggled? This team is very much like an LSU team that played for a national championship. This defense is great and so are the special teams normally. It always looks different from the inside.

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I get what AuxArc is saying. We have a good team, but I don't think they're great. There are flaws, and the right team will expose those.

The indiana loss was a head-scratching aberration. We play that game 100 times, and win 99. We are better than that. But we have flaws. I think a strong power-running team can gash us. I think a well coached defense could make our lives miserable, as our play calling on offense is pretty basic. Alabama is certainly pulling for us to win out, as they believe they can shut us down easily and have a clear path to the natty.

We can play very well at times, we don't make a ton of mistakes (OL penalties notwithstanding) and our defense is good enough to keep us in just about any game we take on. But we don't play well consistently. If this years defense had last years offense, we'd be in the playoff. But I just don't think that overall we are as good as last year.