re: Long-time SEC fan's thoughts on Mizzou...

They have a solid nickname and unlike Auburn, it doesn't split time with other nicknames.

How TF has Mizzou only played 2 conference games so far?


Mississippi State v2.0

Nice win vs Georgia. Your season starts this week. You have 2 games in a row against two teams who are still competing for the SEC championship. You still play Ole Miss and A&M.

I hope all these new Mizzou fans hang around.

All trolling aside, the truth lies in the middle as usual.

MO hasn't beaten anyone of note except GA. GA was not close to full strength. That has to be recognized. The W in the record book looks great and there will be no asterisk but one has to thoughtfully recognize the circumstances of the game.

If we beat Bama in the SECCG and they were down a ton of injuries to key players I would enjoy the win but certainly would not be claiming we were the greatest team ever in any serious fashion. Did I mention I would enjoy the victory?

The truth is that many Tigers have gone all Arky over nothing of note really. Don't get me wrong, being 6 and 0 is a wonderful thing and how you got there in the end doesn't matter at the end of the day.

The other truth is that other fans see who MO has beaten, recognized the circumstances that helped to secure one of those wins and still comes away with doubt.

I'm not sure how that is hard to understand.

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Your season starts this week.

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No, it started 7 weeks ago.

Oh, I get it. The win against Vandy didn't count because Vandy, and the win in Athens didn't count because they had injuries.

That logic is casty as frick.

I have been saying, "this will be Missouri's first REAL test" since the game against Indiana. I said it when we played Vandy and again when we played Georgia. I will say it again.

The difference is, before the Indiana game it was a test to see if we could even have a winning season. Now it's a test to see if we can compete for the East.

An we are down our starting qb, stop making excuses for the game of football an take your loss like a good boy

You seem like someone that has never been punched squarely in the nose. It's really beneficial for some of our population. I hope you get to benefit soon.

Remote, people shouldn't say your win doesn't count because obviously that silly.

It is OK to recognize special circumstances in games.

Take our Miami game for instance, we win that game if not for 6 turnovers. That' not making excuses that recognizing what happened. The other side that Miami should say is that they created 6 turnovers. That's also true.

For MO vs UG: UG has a much better shot at winning that game without ALL their injuries. MO should say we beat UG and be proud. Other fans will still have doubt because MO is new, hasn't beaten a big team at full strength. It's pretty simple.

Maybe MO beats UG at full strength because maybe those players all fumbled or had a bad day or MO played even better against them. We'll never know.

I think you guys don't like being told you haven't beat anyone even though you have a win over UG. Maybe it's all about how it's presented.

I still have my doubts about MO. Is that a terrible thing?

Well telling someone to shut up on a thread in the interwebs shows toughness. I'm so impressed with these MO posters.

Correcting typos shows incredible knowledge as well, even more impressed. Wow, I bow down to the misery's posters greatness.

And we might be out two more key players on Saturday. Rumors are not pretty and I'm not very optimistic about Saturday. This is probably the worse player we could lose and close to the second. We shall see if they play or not.

And yes, if misery wins this, it will be qualified like the win over the mutts. You can start crying now.

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This week,

Mizzou - 0
Healthy SEC team with real defense - 1

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For real? Florida and Mizzou both have major injuries! This game should be pretty evenly matched.