re: Missouri has a good chance of beating Alabama

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I just wonder if Pinkel will roll the dice and try something different since y'all are at home and (no flame) there is really nothing to lose by trying something semi exotic.

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It's actually very typical for Pinkel and his staff to sort of "let it all hang out" and try some innovative things when high level opponents who are supposed to kill us roll into Columbia. When we upset #1 Oklahoma on our field in 2010 you saw us do a hook and lateral that resulted in a score; when we beat a Top Ten ranked Nebraska team back in 2003 I think we did a fake field goal throw for a TD and also a WR throw back to the QB that resulted in a long TD run.

However, again the problem this time around is we don't have the seasoned starting QB that we'd usually run that kind of put all your chips in, razzle dazzle with. We have a redshirt freshman taking his place and hence our coaches have been really simplifying and shortening the playbook for him, the results of his two full games being the not-so-inspiring performances of us scoring 24 against Az State and only 15 against Vandy. Pinkel knows what he's up against and I don't think he's likely to ask our green young QB to try to pull off funky new tricks that are just gonna put him in position to fail. I think we will keep it very vanilla unfortunately.