Missouri announces it will honor football team's 2019 win over Razorbacks this weekend during Mizzou-Arkansas basketball game
Is it a rivalry yet?
While many Arkansas and Missouri fans don’t like to recognize the SEC’s manufactured “Battle Line Rivalry” created following Mizzou’s addition to the SEC, the series is starting to actually feel like a rivalry.
The series began heating up after Barry Odom was dismissed by Missouri and soon landed on his feet at Arkansas as Sam Pittman’s defensive coordinator. That was after Pittman lured away offensive line coach Brad Davis from the Tigers. The Razorbacks then started to steal recruits from Missouri left and right.
During his recent National Signing Day press conference, Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz even called out Arkansas — although he didn’t mention the Razorbacks or Odom by name.
Now comes the latest chapter in the rivalry as Missouri plans to honor the program’s 2019 win over Arkansas in football — over two months after it occurred.
With Missouri’s basketball team hosting the Arkansas basketball team on Saturday, in addition to Tiger fans planning to wear “beat arKANSAS” shirts, the Tigers will honor the 2019 winners of the Battle Line Trophy.
It’s an interesting strategy, considering the coach that actually won that game now coaches in Fayetteville but Missouri technically still claims bragging rights in the series.
Missouri even threw in a little shade in the description of the event, noting the Tigers have won four games in a row over Arkansas on the gridiron. Again, Odom was the winning coach for all four games:
https://twitter.com/MizzouAthletics/status/1225603586119200768?s=20
I doubt this has as much to do with trying to start a rivalry that isn’t there as it is an attempt to get more butts in the seats for a dismal basketball team. It also makes no sense because shouldn’t Odom be a recipient, and be applauded, at the school that fired him? That doesn’t feel like a rivalry, that just makes it weird.
Pathetic. Celebrating a win over a 2-10 team? Is Mizzou also throwing a parade for the basketball team winning 15 games this season? LOL
Yeah this has the stench of the SEC Office calling and said “hey, we have a new idea….make it happen.” all over it.
I highly doubt it. This has the, program with an inferiority complex written all over it. Not a good look for Missouri.
Either way like I said above, it doesn’t feel like a rivalry thing as much as just weird, that’s why the more I think about it the more it feels like an SEC thing. I guess it’s a good thing only about 1400 people in attendance will see the “bad look” lol
Celebrating 4 wins in a row means they have an “inferiority complex”? That’s just ignorant.
This is just a little fuel for the rivalry fire. Like it or not, Arkansas is our rival and someone needs to fan the flames or rivalry week will continue to be boring.
It absolutely IS the SEC league office saying, if you don’t want to operate at a deficit in this league, you have to hype the rivalry, AND THAT’S WHY THEY MAKE EVERY TEAM PLAY A RIVALY GAME EVERY MONOTONOUS YEAR, WHILE THE REST OF THE DIVISION REMAINS UNKNOWNS TO FANS THAT WANT TO SEE THEM PLAY.
It stinks, the KU rivalry was destructive and ugly. As far as i’m concerned if the league drags us back into a pig poop fight ugly game every year it will end up costing the league a LOT of ticket sales and concessions and TV ratings, starting with mine.
Are you reading this Drinkwitz and Sterk? Because I can go watch National contenders Northwest Missouri State and Univ. of Central Missouri football and not drive any farther. And if I get a flat tire and get stuck in Columbia I can go watch Nationally ranked top 10 NCAA Wrestling every dang year at Mizzou. N O R I V A L R Y W I T H A R K A N S A S. Vote to dump the cross division set game. Let those programs that like it, schedule it as a non-conference result.
But Arky is always 2-10, so…
2 times is “always”? Pick up a dictionary and look up “always”.
Your welcome. I must say, a few Mizzou fans seem to have a problem with exaggeration and/or distortion of the facts.
Weird PR stunt especially considering how poor the football and basketball seasons are this year.
couldve been a 3-9 team if only they could ever beat Mizzou…
I hope they do all that pre-game because it will be a blowout by halftime and spoil their monster victory celebration. Not everyday you beat a juggernaut Chad Morris Arkansas team. Maybe they’ll do some Club Dub afterward.
Nice blow out. Lol
exactly! hee hee
Never bet against a “Rally for Rhyan” game!
really Mizzou. Celebrating being a 2-10 team. This might be worse than UCF’s self proclaimed NC or tennese’s chamipions of life. God lord. This is what desperate looks like
Please refer to champions ofvlife as butch jones and not Tennessee’s. we hated it as much as anyone, probably moreso.
I don’t get the want to get a rivalry going that doesn’t exist. Btw who was Arkansas permanent Sec east opponent before Missouri and AnM joined conference?
South Carolina since both schools joined the league together in 1991.
It got your attention, so it worked.
Personally I like it. There actually is some rivalry here in the queen city of all the Ozarks. Including down there where if you find a straight stretch of road anywhere it was most likely an accident. And if you remember Peeler vs Day & lee mayberry. They got all the press until peeler went there and school them. And of course at that time we had a transfer from there. A top player named Bryon Irvin , and my next door neighbor kid ended up playing there. Gary peanut Adams. And mo at would play Arkansas in bball too.
Should say Missouri State also
How cute
I still remember when the SEC made Mizzou and Arkansas play the rivalry every year and Arky fans kept popping off at the mouths how they were gonna dominate Mizzou for years to come. Arky fans were insulted at making Arky play such an inferior team. Since then Mizzou is 5-1 against Arky. As a matter of fact, I do believe that Arky has a 19 game conference losing streak. Yikes.