re: Missouri has a good chance of beating Alabama

You don't need to worry. We are starting a redshirt freshman QB who is still learning his head from his arse because our starter is injured. Literally half of our offensive line is injured and the all of the remaining healthy players are playing out of position and it shows. Our big play threat at running back has been out since the end of last year with an ACL injury. And our play calling this year has been suspect. Result being us having trouble moving the ball at all against the likes of Arizona State, UCF and Vandy...so needless to say the chances of our offense moving the ball against Bama are literally zero.

Our defense is actually pretty good this year with some individual standouts - Sheldon Richardson on the line, EJ Gaines at corner, etc - that typically does enough to keep us in games for at least a little while. Your terrific O-line against Sheldon and our good defensive ends might be a midly interesting matchup. For a little while. But our offense will do absolutely nothing and hence our defense will get very quickly worn down and run over and the slaughter will commence in earnest.