BreakawayZou83

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A&M beat Missouri

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Cheeky arse Reb.

In a statement, Tennessee's AD stated: "our goal is to increase the size of the stadium by nearly 25%, it will not add any further seating capacity, but it should finally allow our morbidly obese fanbase to comfortably view the mediocre product on the field."

So they fire Franklin and owe him a buyout they can't afford because he couldn't win the big games, but then they're going to pay $13 million or more per season to a coach who can't win big games. :lol:

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Is it parking lot tailgating? Might find myself walking around to chop it up with some Tigers.

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Mostly, yes. The most concentrated areas will be just north of the stadium (although stadium construction has temporarily messed that up) in Lot L and in the area south and east of the stadium (near Hearnes Center and Mizzou Arena) in Lots I, K, O, and N. There will be scattered tailgates around campus and in other lots though. Edit: Lots A and X are also active, but Lot A is the fancy donor lot and Lot X is a hike. Here is a confusing map courtesy of the University of Missouri Athletics:

This coaching hiring/firing non-sense is going to have to slow down. Not all 16 SEC programs can finish 11-1 or 12-0 every season. Even for programs of LSU's caliber, $54 million is insane. Look at the mess the B1G currently has with its private equity proposal - rumor is that Penn State is one of the major drivers because they need money for stadium renovations and Franklin's buyout. Michigan and USC have put their feet down to reject the proposal, but it could genuinely tear that conference apart.

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It has been a while since we have seen a whole fanbase have a collective breakdown because they are winning like we are witnessing from Aggie.

It is like they expect the wheels to fly off the bus any minute now.

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It's kind of refreshing in comparison to the typical delusional SEC fanbase.

It is extremely difficult to sustain success in a conference as stacked as the SEC.

Go Barn.

Mizzou has some pretty wretched ones, like below. Which is too bad, because our black/white Block M uniforms are excellent.

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Eli Drinkwitz is 1-9 against AP top ten teams.

He and his reputation benefited greatly from Mizzou playing in the SEC East.

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It's true that he hasn't yet shown that he can win big games. But, that 1-9 stat does fail to show the tremendous improvement since he came to Columbia. When he arrived in 2020, Mizzou's roster was utterly devoid of talent - its talent composite ranked 50th in the country and 13th in the SEC (Vandy 14th). The entire roster had just 6 four-star or better players. So, yes he predictably went 0-4 against Top 10 teams during those first two seasons and they were all blow-outs. In 2022, he went 0-2 against Top 10 teams, but this time gave #1 Georgia a scare with a 22-26 loss.

Things did start to turn in 2023: he went 1-1, with a very close loss at #1 Georgia, 21-30, and a win over #7 Ohio State. In 2025, Mizzou has gone 0-2 against Top 10 teams, losing by a combined 10 points in games that literally came down to the one-inch line.

So yes, he's not been good in the biggest moments, but holding those bad losses in the first couple seasons against him is more of a reflection of Odom's atrocious recruiting that an indictment of Drinkwitz's coaching. We've also yet to have an elite QB under Drink, which is of course at least partially his fault, but injuries have been pretty cruel to Mizzou the past couple seasons.

ETA: Put more simply, in his first three seasons before he had a chance to improve the awful roster, Mizzou went 0-6 against Top 10 teams with an average margin of -26 points. Since 2023, Mizzou is 1-3 against Top 10 teams with an average margin of -3.