Bottom line South Carolina-Mizzou is pretty much a divisional playoff game

Mizzou has suddenly gotten a 2 game lead in the East and that's nice, but it doesn't mean a hell of a lot when you are playing one of the teams you are up 2 games on head to head. Mizzou loses this game, then it's only a 1 game lead on South Carolina with *no* margin for error cuz now UCSe has the tiebreaker. And between a road trip to Ole Miss and playing JFF at home in our final game, its more than reasonable to assume Mizzou could and will lose at least one more game in there. In which case, with SC holding tiebreaker over us, our only hope would be to pray for Georgia or Florida or both to finish out doing some crazy shite to force a 3 way tie scenario and see how it would all play out. Not the spot you want to be in.

Really then, for all the talk of a "commanding" lead for Missouri in the Division, it is in fact anything but. It's just a one game playoff scenario. And while Mauk our redshirt freshman QB was impressive in his debut against Florida, there were moments when it was clear that when pressured under a heavy pass rush he looks shaky and made some bad decisions. Enter Clowney and the rest of the SC defense. They have the opportunity here, just one game, to stake their own claim to the division. Because win, and I'm telling you, the Cocks are in a very very good position (that's what she said). If the Cocks lose though, Mizzou will likely have a 3 game lead (either literally or via having the tiebreaker) on everyone else in the division, which would require a truly epic and pretty unlikely collapse by Mizzou down the stretch in order to be undone. Saturday is for all the marbles, period.