The myth of Texas A&M.

Mizzou has as many 11+ win seasons since joining the SEC as A&M has since 1940.

Mizzou has more 12 win seasons since 2007 than Texas A&M has in its 121 year history.

Texas A&M all time is 9-7 against Mizzou. In the last 10 games, Mizzou is 7-3 against Texas A&M.

Texas A&M doesn’t instill fear in Mizzou.

Auburn is down. I don’t think they’ll recover enough between now and next year to beat Mizzou next year. Alabama will probably kick our arse, but we may be able to make them pucker for three quarters. Oklahoma isn’t the same scary team either. They have OL issues, and we’ll have to see how their new QB fairs. And they are coming off a season where they lost to KU with a backup QB and a fairly weak Oklahoma State team and had no defense against Arizona. Not exactly intimidating.

But the reality is no one can predict what will happen before now and next season. I wouldn’t have predicted Mizzou getting 4/5 OL injured in 2012 either. Nor would so have predicted our starting QB to be hurt and a freshman backup see more game action than the starter. But it happened and crippled our offense. It was a wake up call for Pinkel’s staff about the need for depth in the SEC.

I think Missouri showed this year with player rotation that we do have depth now. But you never know.