Missouri-Texas: The Morning After

Too bad this is the first Morning After that MyMissourian.com gets. On our site, Mizzourah.net, we've had many more positive MA's throughout the past year-and-a-half.

Ouch. Pretty much sums it all up. Mizzou drops its second in a row, which seems like for some reason, it hasn't happened in years. Unfortunately, not long enough. It was 2006 when we lost three in a row. 56-31 is a bad loss.

-Texas is for real. Plain and simple. Their schedule is like my grandparents, and they only leave the house (state of Texas) twice the entire year.

They've already gotten Colorado out of the way, and they head to Lawrence for what will probably be a mere speed bump in kU.

-Our defense sucked. Missed tackles all over the place. Before you knew it, 35 points were on the board. Game Over.

You're not coming back from being deep sixed by the No. 1 team by five touchdowns.

-Chase Daniel didn't look comfortable in the pocket, which lead to several third-and-longs. If we can't get some third-and-twos, it's not going to happen every time.

-Dumb penalties all over the place for the Tigers. Some just dumb, and some....well, let's get to the next point.

-The refs didn't cost Mizzou the game, but dammit, they had an effect. Chase Coffman got felt up like a Scores girl on a few no-calls, and the one time he gets tangled up with the defender on a Jeremy Maclin catch (not even coming to CC), Coffman gets called for offensive pass interference. Also, on DaNario Alexander's non-TD catch: if you're going to call it a TD and have a Zapruder film-like evidence of nothing going either way on the replay, you have to keep it a touchdown. If you would have called the catch an incomplete pass to begin with and said there was no evidence either way, I'd be ok with it. But the fact is THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE EITHER WAY. Get the replay correct.

-The rushing game did nothing. You must set up the run to set up the pass. On the flip, when you're down 35-3 at the half, expect a lot of passing in the second half. Deceiving? Maybe a little bit, but lets be honest; the rushing game sucked.

So we can kiss the National Title and Chase Daniel's Heisman hopes goodbye, and the only chance we get to a BCS bowl is winning the B12 title, which is still a possibility.

The good news is, we should win out. Don't expect to feel this crappy again this season.

It's back to CoMo for Homecoming against Colorado, then down to Wacko for Baylor, and back home for K-State.

See what I'm talking about? Don't take down the Mizzou flag just yet, and if you haven't all ready, buy your B12 Championship tickets.