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At this point, Pyne has higher chance of improving week to week over past performances.

South Carolina is much better than their record.

It’s not a good reflection on him to do so.

I wonder if Cook was really injured all year. That would help explain his decline from last year.

South Carolina is a darn good team. They've improved continually throughout this season.

I agree. I find it more embarrassing to be defending being ranked based on the play this year. We're supposed to be the "Show Me" state, not the "What if" state.

I would say we are OK and far from great. Likely to finish lower end of the SEC if offense doesn't get better.

If we are to look at past play this season in predicting the final record, I have no reason to think Mizzou wins another game. They have not improved and they've lost their starting QB. While their backup may play better than the starter, I have nothing to base that on based on play so far.

It wouldn't have been as much a problem if nobody heard it and they kept playing. But some of the Missouri players heard it and stopped playing.

I'd prefer they don't go to a bowl this year. I was off with my prediction of 7 loses, but I'll still stick with loses on the remaining 4. They just don't deserve it. Defense is good when the coach mixes it up, but coaches haven't prepared the offense for this season.

Nobody was begging Drink to bench Cook for Pyne. The issue goes further to player development and play calling. At this point, they aren't going to be able to pull any of the QB's off the bench to save the season. Cook is even missing the throws he use to make in high school even though he does protect the ball better than he use to. I was talking about up to 7 loses on the season back when Mizzou was undefeated. Since they won against Auburn, I'm now thinking 6 loses. The defense is great, but if you leave them on the field all the time, they're still going to get blown out eventually. It's a shame because they have a great receiving group and had a good opportunity this year.

Didn't matter. Cook wasn't going to win it.

I did give it 24 hours. My first comment was several weeks ago. That’s more than 24 hours.

Doesn't matter. As I said a few weeks ago, Mizzou could be looking at 7 losses this season. They needed this wake up call but it may be too late. Team does not look prepared this season. Don't know why they kept doing the same thing on defense and offense. Weigman becomes a great QB if you don't ever put pressure on him, just like most QBs would. Brady Cook telegraphed where he was throwing and even then wasn't very accurate. A lot of missed blocks on the offensive line of Mizzou too. Drink continues to get good recruits, but he's not getting the most out of them on the field. Not sure what he needs in order to get there.

Pavia was alright. Mizzou kept him under control most of the game. If Mizzou offense had done decently, Mizzou defense wouldn't have been on the field as long.

It doesn't matter who's ahead between LSU and Mizzou in this article. They both had their issues. Mizzou escaped on a missed field goal against Vanderbilt and LSU escaped with a bad call by the officials against SC. But they both won and that's going to matter the most at the end of the year if they can improve and keep winning.

Give me a couple more games and all the polls and power rankings will mean a lot more.

I agree. I'm not too concerned with A&M's offense, just Mizzou's offense and A&M's defense. Cook may have not delivered much the past two games, but he only has one meaningless interception this year. Him and all the ball handlers are going to have to make sure they hold onto the ball. That being said, watch it be a high scoring matchup and surprise everyone.

Texas A&M and Mizzou may be decided in the turnovers. If it’s even, Mizzou has the disadvantage with field goals. That being said, Mizzou had an extra week to prepare and figure out how to fix their offensive woes. Texas A&M hasn’t. But A&M has been more battle tested.

The Sluka situation happens all the time in corporate world where the companies promise one thing then deliver something else. Have to read the contract before you sign. When I was first out of Mizzou, I was offered a good bonus for a job. They sent me a contract and I didn't sign it immediately. I was looking it over and got a call from the company asking me if the reason I hadn't signed it was because the bonus wasn't written into it. Then they said, "would it make a difference?" I told them, "You tell me first if I got the bonus then I'll tell you if it makes a difference". They then told me they'd get me a new contract to me. One new coworker fell for it and didn't get the bonus. I messed up with IBM later on in my career. I didn't go over my quota letter closely enough in time (was a week late to catch it) and got paid on a group performance instead of my own and missed out on $300k that year for going 650% over my quota. Now I always read everything immediately.

For all the experience Mizzou brought back on offense, they look like an inexperienced group. They might drop a few more next week even without playing.

You waited until the 4th quarter to say “I’d be surprised if you don’t. You guys are legit this year.”.

Wasn't impressed with Mizzou today. If they don't improve on this game, they're looking at 7 loses on the season.

Everyone except Leach.

This usually isn’t the case with Missouri being so highly ranked when 17 other teams are also undefeated. And despite the overall opinion that polls don’t matter this early in the season, we know they do slightly affect final position at the end of the year and officiating bias.

What they're saying is Mizzou's route to a National Championship is the same in the regular season as last year. Just win out and they'll be considered for the playoffs.

If I were an NFL coach, I wouldn’t want Sanders on the team with that attitude. It’ll hurt his chances of being drafted.

Alabama, Texas, Georgia are the elite teams this year in the SEC until the others can prove it by knocking them off. Dominating showing by Alabama today just like the years under Saban.

As an engineer alumni from Mizzou, I wouldn't say it's a "big" engineering school. But it's about average for the main state university. Rolla (Missouri S&T) is the university in Missouri that focuses mainly on Engineering.

Blowout wins against teams like Buffalo are not great indications of whether teams are elite or not. The best indicator is how well a team did the year before if that team has stayed mostly intact like at Missouri.