It’s about time.
The defending SEC East champions, currently in position to repeat, finally entered the College Football Playoff poll at No. 20 on Tuesday night.
Missouri (8-2, 5-1) won its seventh consecutive road SEC game Saturday, beating Texas A&M, 34-27, at Kyle Field.
The Tigers are two wins away from back-to-back SEC division titles, needing to beat Tennessee (5-5) and Arkansas (5-5) to avoid a tiebreaker with Georgia. If Mizzou gets back to Atlanta, it likely will have a chance to beat No. 1 Alabama or No. 4 Mississippi State, which surely would launch the Tigers into the Top 10 at 11-2.
Coach Gary Pinkel has done an outstanding job with one of the teams talked about least on a national scale despite flirting with the Associated Press Top 25 for much of the season.
It’s unreasonable to expect Missouri to compete for a national championship this year, but it will be hard for the country to ignore them for long if the wins keep piling up.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
