Mizzou 9/10/2022 Game Thread

[GregKSU1027]

Mizzou's biggest rivalry game since?! I mean come on, Drinkwitz is shaking in his boots. Klein gave them little to no tape to watch this week. King Felix has the moves of this dorks nightmares.
The SEC BIG J journalists are concerned about tackling form when they should be worried about getting railed on the road.

Here is his weekly presser from yesterday....

[cfbandyman]

I just want our offense to click better, I think the defense, especially with some secondary guys back too should be ready to roll

[Spaces]

I just learned the new Mizzou DC calls their defense the "trench mob" 

[star seed 7]

More like stench mob

[Rage Against the McKee]

We are going to bury their asses in that trench.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

More like stench mob

More like trench mouth

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Jokes on them. A trench is way too narrow for a mob to be effective. It’s pretty much mano-y-mano unless they all climb out, but theres a reason they call that area no man’s land

[nicname]

Jokes on them. A trench is way too narrow for a mob to be effective. It’s pretty much mano-y-mano unless they all climb out, but theres a reason they call that area no man’s land

To be fair, The Missourah Tigers were still licking their civil war wounds when WWI rolled around.

[CHONGS]

I think this is the first must-win game (to this point --- and not counting the KU games) of the Klieman era.  A loss here would be tough to overcome.

I think that's why I'm so nervous about it. 

[Sandstone Outcropping]

We had better humiliate them. Terrible school in a terrible state. Agree with other posters that this is a must-win.

[KCFDcat]

I think this is the first must-win game (to this point --- and not counting the KU games) of the Klieman era.  A loss here would be tough to overcome.

I think that's why I'm so nervous about it.

I think it’s a must-win if this team is going to be what we all wanted them to be. They can absolutely still lose this game and compete for 3rd or 4th in the b12 if they can continue to improve. But, at this point in his tenure w these players klieman should absolutely be confident in his ability to go out and win this game semi-comfortably.

I know the offense was vanilla af last week, but that performance still scares me. They did not look physically dominating on the line and took way too many tfls and sacks against an fcs team. We’ll see what they’re able to clean up in a week, but that performance against MU is a double digit loss.

[cfbandyman]

I think this is the first must-win game (to this point --- and not counting the KU games) of the Klieman era.  A loss here would be tough to overcome.

I think that's why I'm so nervous about it.

I think it’s a must-win if this team is going to be what we all wanted them to be. They can absolutely still lose this game and compete for 3rd or 4th in the b12 if they can continue to improve. But, at this point in his tenure w these players klieman should absolutely be confident in his ability to go out and win this game semi-comfortably.

I know the offense was vanilla af last week, but that performance still scares me. They did not look physically dominating on the line and took way too many tfls and sacks against an fcs team. We’ll see what they’re able to clean up in a week, but that performance against MU is a double digit loss.

More how I feel. Losing is never fun, and a loss to mizzou after all these years at home would be fairly humiliating, but it takes us from IMO being the outside track to win the Big 12 to once again settling to win 7-8 games. This game is not the biggest step forward, but it is a necessary one to getting to be a 9/10  (or more) win type team.

[ben ji]

Jokes on them. A trench is way too narrow for a mob to be effective. It’s pretty much mano-y-mano unless they all climb out, but theres a reason they call that area no man’s land

To be fair, The Missourah Tigers were still licking their civil war wounds when WWI rolled around.

Truman begs to differ

[catastrophe]

If we lose this game, I struggle to see how we get to six wins.

[nicname]

Jokes on them. A trench is way too narrow for a mob to be effective. It’s pretty much mano-y-mano unless they all climb out, but theres a reason they call that area no man’s land

To be fair, The Missourah Tigers were still licking their civil war wounds when WWI rolled around.

Truman begs to differ

It appears my historical slight may have been unfounded.

“In 1864, while in the midst of the American Civil War, the board of curators suspended operations of the university. It was during this time that the residents of Columbia formed a "home guard" unit that became notoriously known as the "Fighting Tigers of Columbia". This name was given because of the group's steadfast readiness to fight against Confederate bushwhackers, hoping to plunder the city and university, under the command of "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Later, in 1890, an alumnus suggested the university's newly formed football team be called the "Tigers" out of respect for those who fought to defend Columbia.”

[MakeItRain]

I think this is the first must-win game (to this point --- and not counting the KU games) of the Klieman era.  A loss here would be tough to overcome.

I think that's why I'm so nervous about it.

I'm not going to check but I'm certain you've called other games "must win."

How is this any different than the Stanford game or any of the non con P5 games that will follow?

If we lose then beat OU and make the Big 12 championship game, no one will care. If we lose the regular season finale to KU, no one will say, "well, at least we beat Mizzou." I can't ever envision the second game of any season being called a must win.

[XocolateThundarr]

In the week leading up to gameday, every game is a must win. 

[ChiComCat]

I think this is the first must-win game (to this point --- and not counting the KU games) of the Klieman era.  A loss here would be tough to overcome.

I think that's why I'm so nervous about it.

I'm not going to check but I'm certain you've called other games "must win."

How is this any different than the Stanford game or any of the non con P5 games that will follow?

If we lose then beat OU and make the Big 12 championship game, no one will care. If we lose the regular season finale to KU, no one will say, "well, at least we beat Mizzou." I can't ever envision the second game of any season being called a must win.

"Must win" is typically an exaggeration and in the eye of the beholder.  I do think that K-State fans are very excited about the game and an opportunity to beat a former B12 and current SEC member.  The program has a lot of momentum and a loss to Mizzou would hurt that, particularly since we seem to be getting in more and more recruiting battles with them.

Of course, losing to Mizzou doesn't affect our Big 12 title hopes, but it does mean we're probably not good enough to do it.

[MakeItRain]

[yoga-like_abana]

You know why it's a must win? Because its this week's opponent motherfuckers

[EMAWzifried]

This gme took me totally by surprise. I thught Missouri dropped football when they had all the campus racist riots a few years back.

[sonofdaxjones]

Imagine thinking Columbia Missouri is a cool place.

Goodness, how sad


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[CHONGS]

I think this is the first must-win game (to this point --- and not counting the KU games) of the Klieman era.  A loss here would be tough to overcome.

I think that's why I'm so nervous about it.

I'm not going to check but I'm certain you've called other games "must win."

How is this any different than the Stanford game or any of the non con P5 games that will follow?

If we lose then beat OU and make the Big 12 championship game, no one will care. If we lose the regular season finale to KU, no one will say, "well, at least we beat Mizzou." I can't ever envision the second game of any season being called a must win.

Because it's a bad sign that the program probably isn't as far along as hoped it would be and momentum would suffer.

[CHONGS]

I mean I'm not saying he should be fired if we lose.

[stunted]

Because it's a bad sign that the program probably isn't as far along as hoped it would be and momentum would suffer.

Could say the same thing about losing to a Stanford or Miss State. It’s big purely because of history reasons, making all the conference realignment stuff sad. Also there’s going to be a crap ton of local recruits there so we need to clap some Mizzou ass.