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re: When were your program’s “good old days?”
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:53 am to AUTiger789
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:53 am to AUTiger789
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WTF? What conference doesn’t have champions?
The SIAA
And if they did, Auburn still wouldn’t have 8 of them. How about this, link me to your source?
Sorry you don’t like history or facts.
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:00 am to QBUMizzou
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When were your program’s “good old days?”
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:17 am to LOTOTiger
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It was 2003 when we finally broke through against NU, it was at 24 games straight starting in 78. Mizzou basically went dark with football beginning in the 70s - although had some big wins in the 70s, we also had a lot of inexplicable losses (and a lot of those were to a team just to the West), and residual but declining success the first few years of the 80s, and then all through the 80s and 90s - and really up until 2003 (had glimmer of very modest success in 97/98) we simply did not win much at all. So there was about 25 years where MU's administration basically abandoned football. Poor hires, no commitment to invest in facilities or training, and add to that some really bad luck in critical games (5 downs, kick-catch).
We are still playing catch up to this day - although our training and practice facilities are excellent now and our Stadium has improved significantly (and is improving greatly as we speak). I don't see Mizzou ever supporting a mega huge capacity - but the amentities and quality of the experience is way, way up. Unfortunately - the late 80s and early 90s were years I was there - it was awful.
Mizzou basically gave up on football for a quarter century. Of course, that is the frame of reference for many when they think about Mizzou football. Our best years were the 50s, 60s and early 70s (before my time), mid 2000s and early 2010s
Thanks for this, and the correction. Time fuzzies memory.
I was raised in a home without TV and discovered Mizzou as a kid in the mid-70s listening over AM radio in SE Missouri.
Family and I have supported in the ways that matter. Degrees, donations, etc.
It’s good to see the university invest in the program.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:23 am to Gunga Din
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I'll tell you about some things about YOUR program's history. Missouri had a a few really good teams in the 1960s and even though they didn't win the conference very often... they were really good. When you played Missouri... you could expect a tight, very hard fought game... and even if you won... you got beat up pretty good. But to me the greatest years were the 1970s... when Missouri was the "giant killer" team. It was crazy. Missouri would beat the best teams in the country. Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Nebraska... and yet lose to lousy Big 8 teams routinely. Some of the loudest roars I can remember at Owen Field in Norman came when the announcer would announce that Missouri had upset some top team. I will never forget the year that they beat Notre Dame. OU's stadium went crazy after they announced that score. Many people in the stadium that day had been alive when Notre Dame ended OU's winning streak and had seen us lose to them over and over again. When Mizzou beat them (I think 3-0) it was like those fans were living vicariously through Missouri.
Thanks for this.
Much appreciated.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:37 am to Gunga Din
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Many people in the stadium that day had been alive when Notre Dame ended OU's winning streak and had seen us lose to them over and over again. When Mizzou beat them (I think 3-0) it was like those fans were living vicariously through Missouri.
Good post. I was at that game in South Bend. Great defensive battle.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:42 am to LOTOTiger
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Unfortunately - the late 80s and early 90s were years I was there - it was awful. Mizzou basically gave up on football for a quarter century.
You can thank Babs Uehling and the Board of Curators for that abortion of a time frame. I was there just before you during the Warren Powers years and somehow he did pretty well despite the handcuffs.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:51 am to QBUMizzou
Pinkel and Drinkwitz have given us the best years since the 1960s and I am thankful for that.
Top 3 games I have seen in person:
2007 win over ku in Kansas City. They were ranked #2 and we were #4. Todd "Sod" Reesing is a name that will live in my memory forever.
2003 win over #10 Nebraska to snap the 24 game losing streak. Nub fans were in disbelief and it was a beautiful thing to experience, to be able to return their condescending "Your boys played hard, nice try".
2010 Homecoming and Game Day win over #3 Oklahoma.
Top 3 games I have seen in person:
2007 win over ku in Kansas City. They were ranked #2 and we were #4. Todd "Sod" Reesing is a name that will live in my memory forever.
2003 win over #10 Nebraska to snap the 24 game losing streak. Nub fans were in disbelief and it was a beautiful thing to experience, to be able to return their condescending "Your boys played hard, nice try".
2010 Homecoming and Game Day win over #3 Oklahoma.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:53 am to QBUMizzou
Uhhhhhh!??
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:57 am to QBUMizzou
When I was in school! 
Won the SEC championship 3 times
Beat Bama all 4 years
Brought the Iron Bowl to campus
Had a roster full of NFL talent
I feel sorry for the students over the last five or six years. They have experienced zero success in football the whole time they’ve been there. Basketball has been fun though.
Won the SEC championship 3 times
Beat Bama all 4 years
Brought the Iron Bowl to campus
Had a roster full of NFL talent
I feel sorry for the students over the last five or six years. They have experienced zero success in football the whole time they’ve been there. Basketball has been fun though.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 11:01 am to MIZ83
quote:Didn't Dan Devine have some pretty good years before he got stuck with Rudy at Notre Dame?
Pinkel and Drinkwitz have given us the best years since the 1960s and I am thankful for that.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 11:11 am to Diamondawg
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Didn't Dan Devine have some pretty good years before he got stuck with Rudy at Notre Dame?
Yes, and he coached at Mizzou from 1958-1970 (93-37-7). He actually coached the Packers in between MU and ND.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 11:11 am to Diamondawg
Devine did well until he left for Notre Dame, yes.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 12:26 pm to QBUMizzou
Top 3
1996 Football title
06 winning the basketball and Football titles the same year..was amazingly fun. We are the only program to win both in the same season.
1996 Football title
06 winning the basketball and Football titles the same year..was amazingly fun. We are the only program to win both in the same season.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 12:56 pm to DarthRebel
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LSU fans being honest, nice to see.
Football was not a thing until 2000 for them.
The question was about the best period in your program's history. Why would anyone mention a time outside that?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 2:57 pm to MIZ83
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You can thank Babs Uehling
Babs was definitely part of the problem. She pushed for higher academic standards (wanted to be the Harvard of the Midwest - ha!). Admission standards were raised, which is not a bad thing on its own, but in those days there weren't as many ways around those requirements for athletics. She also did not make funding athletics a priority. Interestingly she came to Mizzou from being provost at OU, where she only lasted 2 years. She probably recommended cutting the OU football budget and got ran out of town. Or maybe she was sent to sabotage us?
Haskell Monroe came after her and was Chancellor the whole time I was there, he wasn't really any better. They both struggled in building support from the state legislature.
Warren Powers was a good coach, especially in big games. Woody's wagon was a wreck. Stull was a really good guy who seemed to be pretty sharp, and his staff included some guy named Andy Reid who is coaching football out in Western Missouri today. But he just couldn't get any top players.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:14 pm to QBUMizzou
I was a freshman at A&M in the Fall of ‘85. We won the conference three straight, then after a 2 year hiatus and coaching change, won it four more times in a row (I’m counting ‘94). That was a pretty good run. We just didn’t have the QB play to win a natty on those teams in the 90s.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:29 pm to LOTOTiger
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Warren Powers
What a great name for a football coach
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:52 pm to Great Plains Drifter
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After he finally got over the OU hurdle
More like “After that OU hurdle stopped existing”.
Barry Switzer is a lot of things, but that program spiraled as he exited.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:51 pm to Ag Zwin
From the time they first squared up in ‘73 until Switzer left OU before the ‘89 season, Osborne did manage to beat Barry 5 times.
The first time was finally in ‘78 (when NU promptly got rewarded for their Big 8 title and Orange Bowl berth with a rematch…..against Oklahoma, lol).
NU and the fanbase was collectively like “wtf!” …..”thanks?”….and got throttled by OU 31-7 in the Orange Bowl “rematch” (sigh).
Oz was able to beat Switzer 4 more times (‘81, ‘82, ‘83 and ‘88) before Barry resigned from OU prior to the ‘89 season.
So Osborne did clear the OU hurdle a handful of times while Switzer was there but the Sooners definitely owned the upper hand at 13-5 during the Osborne-Switzer head to head era.
The first time was finally in ‘78 (when NU promptly got rewarded for their Big 8 title and Orange Bowl berth with a rematch…..against Oklahoma, lol).
NU and the fanbase was collectively like “wtf!” …..”thanks?”….and got throttled by OU 31-7 in the Orange Bowl “rematch” (sigh).
Oz was able to beat Switzer 4 more times (‘81, ‘82, ‘83 and ‘88) before Barry resigned from OU prior to the ‘89 season.
So Osborne did clear the OU hurdle a handful of times while Switzer was there but the Sooners definitely owned the upper hand at 13-5 during the Osborne-Switzer head to head era.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:02 pm to Bigdawgb
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This is correct of course but I love the old Herschel Walker glory days. I grew up reading Lewis Grizzard & hearing about the 80s that I was too young to experience. That's the old Athens and is an old Georgia culture that seems to be prevalent statewide in guys 50-60+
I was lucky enough to go to the Sugar Bowl when I was in school to see Georgia beat Notre Dame to win the national championship. It was an amazing time and I thought I would never experienced anything like it for the rest of my life. Then I got to go to Indy to see us beat Bama, and to LA to see the TCU win. I think my favorite moment was beating Bama. I'd waited 40 years for that moment and it was sweet. So, we're living the best days of Georgia football right now, in my opinion.
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