Not many things went right for Missouri in Saturday’s upset loss at Vanderbilt as the No. 22 Tigers fell out of the Associated Press poll following the 21-14 loss in Nashville.

Coach Barry Odom at his regular weekly press conference on Tuesday discussed the power of experiences and the power of setbacks and failures.

“Provides opportunities really, to open our eyes to truth and understanding,” Odom said ahead of Missouri’s game at Kentucky this week. “The ability for us to understand the reasons we didn’t play well and what we can do and will do to fix that and make sure that we control the narrative. We control the outcome and the story for the next five weeks.”

It’s hard when you have to learn from a setback, but Odom added, “That’s squarely looking us in the face. We’re not going to run from it.”

Odom didn’t focus specific mistakes or problems.

“I’m not pointing the finger at one group or one area,” Odom said. “We’ve also come to the short conclusion that we’ve all got to be better in every area.”

Earlier, offensive coordinator Derek Dooley weighed in with his opinion in a meeting with reporters.

“We weren’t really good at anything. So the only real positive that came out of it is is a reminder of how you’re one week away from being embarrassed when you play college football,” Dooley said, according to Dave Matter. “I take the blame. As a leader on the team I apologize for not getting everyone to have that right mindset. … The coaches are preaching it. … It’s our job as players and leaders to to make sure it shows up.”