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Missouri's bowl destination, opponent revealed
It’s finally official.
The Missouri Tigers are heading to play in the Liberty Bowl against old Big 12 rival Oklahoma State Cowboys.
OSU finished 6-6 with wins over ranked Texas and ranked West Virginia in 2018, while Missouri finished the season on a hot streak. The Tigers finished ranked No. 23 in the College Football Playoff rankings.
This game should be a fun shootout.
The Tigers’ official Twitter account announced the news Sunday afternoon:
LIBERTY BOWL 🔔#Mizzou is headed to Memphis for a game with an old rival in the @AZOLibertyBowl 👀
🔗 https://t.co/jS0yoD93YL
🎟️ https://t.co/slOWNMEL8q#MIZ #ShowMe 🐯🏈 pic.twitter.com/NLK9FHHBwj— Mizzou Football (@MizzouFootball) December 2, 2018
Mizzou’s last 3 of 4 bowl opponents have been from the Big 12. ’18 OSU, ’17 Texas, ’14 Minn, ’13 OSU.
I’m tired of the B-12. They’re not an automatic rival. Sheesh.
I am too. I wanna beat up on a mid level PAC12 or ACC team
SMH.
Get ’em Tigers!
Missouri deserves a better opponent than a 6-6 OSU team.
Weird resume too. Lost to Oklahoma by only 1 point. Beat Texas and WVU. Lost most all the rest, especially the road games. Just the poorest pick for Mizzou again this year — because someone thinks the old farts still have a Johnson for the Big-12 and can’t move on.
Im fed up with this crap. STOP FORCING US TO PLAY THE BIG12! It’s boring, we’re over it.
That’s our fault. The games we blew, the plays we blew. If we play better before November one year we would draw better bowl
Bu!! sh!t. A trend is a trend. 8-4 is 8-4. All things equal, and if teams don’t play one another, determination is based upon common opponent outcomes as a general practice. For example, Mizzou beat Florida which beat MSU. MSU did not beat anyone who beat Mizzou. And so on.
But I blame out pansy-a$$ AD for not fighting for it. He’s too busy procto-ing the alumni, who can’t move on from the B-12.
And thanks for opening an account just to make that comment.
VK, is that you? Rarely do you become unglued in disdain, especially with a fellow Tiger fan. But hey, it stinks we didn’t get a more prestigious bowl. Let’s just hope we get quality practice reps and put up a good fight. MIZ
Mizzou All Day, yeah, you’re right. I’m over it. I was hoping we were turning the corner on the disrespect thing. I apologise for getting upset about it. I’m glad we are in a bowl and hope the kids do great, of course.
Yea a lot of us are not “thrilled” that its a big 12 opponent, but lets not forget we lost to a big 12 team last year. The way I look at it is the 2019 season starts now. If we win, it will be sure to help us get those last few needed recruits for next year and its also can bleed momentum into the next year. Next years schedule is very favorable to us with the right QB (Kelly Bryant). All in all…..just win
Good conference, good member or the conference, not cheaters, they had a much better season than their record shows, Gundy is good coach. Neighbor of Missouri, natural rival. Memphis is only an 8 hour drive from where I Iive and not more than a 10 hour drive from anybody in Missouri.
5.5 hours from here in CoMO. Not thrilled about our opponent. Not a very interesting team since we played them in conference for half a century, as well as in one of our most recent bowls. We also won’t get much credit if we beat them, as they are a 6-6 team. Plus they could very likely beat us, and we stand to look pretty bad losing to a 6-6 team.
The bowl itself is fine. The Liberty is actually one of the oldest bowls, having been played for about 60 years.
some good points, but, Missouri can get credit for beating a team that beat Texas, and beat West Virginia, and will automatically tie or exceed Oklahoma’s slimmest of margins over the Pokes. Also OKS beat Boise State when they were ranked 25th. And if that’s not enough, a win would give us 29 points to taunt the Les Miles’s Jay-chickens with.
The only bowl this is better than is no bowl. I’ll support the tigers, but I am totally deflated with this matchup.
Drew Lock should sit out and prepare for the combine. Why the hell should he risk getting hurt to beat a 6-6 big12 turd? We are #23 with 3 quality losses, and we get crapped on by the SEC. I almost hope no Mizzou fans show up to the game so they’ll finally get the message that we don’t want what they think we want.
Unfortunately the idea of no fans showing up is exactly why we’re in Memphis and not Florida or at least Nashville.
mutigersbball, I respectfully disagree. I live 2 hours south of Tampa. The big money does not come from from Mizzou folks, although that is great. The reason it’s in Florida is it’s a winter destination for midwesterners on this side of the state. So they need walk-ins most. Tickets are sold as incentives at workplaces, given as prises, and so on — just like tickets everywhere.
Florida bowls are presigue bowls aligned in a tiered fashion. If Rutgers or Kansas had an 8 to 10 win season, they would be in Florida, regardless of their fanbase. Mizzou’s 8 wins is no different than MSU’s or TAMU’s. But they got the Florida bowls. Why?
The close-by travel logic is flawed too. Starkville is only 3.75 hours south of Memphis. It’s all hooey. But it’s done and I support the team. I’m preaching to the choir.
I think it’s a good match because we’re old rivals, OSU is actually beatable for MU coaches (maybe), we need a bowl win, travel is not an issue, we still recruit Big 12 hunting grounds. Next year, when we’re 10-2, we can play ND or Washington :) MU 38 – OSU 24.