Tale Of The Tape: Missouri Tigers

In some alternate universe this would be a league game and not some sort of one-off bowl game.

There was a very real time that Missouri and the Big Ten had some legs, at least on the surface. Sure, the addition of Missouri wouldn’t have done much for television households, a must under then-commissioner Jim Delany, but the natural fit of geography along with some unwritten rivalries would have made a lot of sense.

But, it didn’t happen, the Big Ten looked elsewhere and the Tigers of Missouri went to the SEC, a fit that is akin to…