Mizzou-rah

I can't say I've ever been to Oxford but Columbia does deserve to be as high as it is. There's always a great vibe to it when people aren't protesting. Combine that with low taxes, low tuition and a growing startup culture and Columbia makes for a great place to go to school and stay after graduation.

Nobody mentions that Mizzou fans had to drive through frozen hell to get to Atlanta last year. Tickets sold for double face value until weather reports came out, then I bought a couple the day before the game for face value. That was the worst drive of my life, hands down. Expect to see 40-45% of the stadium filled with Mizzou fans. It'll be 60 and rainy in ATL.. I'll take that any day!

I'm unsure how Missouri will travel. Last year, the game was essentially a home game for Auburn. Atlanta is 10 hours away from Columbia at least, and it took around 14-15 hours last year due to some of the worst road conditions I have ever experienced (and I grew up in northern Illinois). The difference is that teams farther south can make a day of Atlanta; Mizzou fans have to make a weekend of it, and that makes it hard to sell tens of thousands of tickets.

Of course I have to root for my team in Atlanta, but it sucks that a Missouri win would mean the SEC wouldn't have a team in the playoff. I don't know if we could call that a true "National Championship" game. That's like excluding the AFC North from the NFL playoff back in the days of the Brady-Manning rivalry. Clearly the system still isn't fixed..

When you get compared to Congress, that has to sting.

I was one of the first to rush the field after Mizzou's game with A&M. Everything felt like a fairytale. When you rush the field, you feel like you're the luckiest person to be alive. Everyone should know that joy at least once!