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12.06.2008 4:58 pm

Welcome to the Big 12 Championship

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Just over two hours from kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium for Mizzou vs. Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game. It’s cold and windy. The field seems to have recovered well after being messy in the Mizzou-Kansas game last week.

The parking lots are…

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12.05.2008 10:36 am

Two more Big 12 teams set for bowls; still Fiesta or Alamo for Missouri

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Two Big 12 bowls became official today at the Gator got the go-ahead to invite Nebraska and the Insight will make it official with Kansas.

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe had wanted the league to wait until after the Missouri-Oklahoma game…

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11.25.2008 3:33 pm

Missouri’s bowl projections

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It is starting to look more and more that the Tigers could wind up in either San Diego or Jacksonville if they don’t win the Big 12 championship game to earn the automatic bid to the Fiesta Bowl.

A lot could…

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11.19.2008 4:19 pm

Is Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl mix?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One item in the fine-print of the Cotton Bowl’s agreement to match a Big 12 team with an SEC team allows the bowl to pick Notre Dame once in the next two years instead of an SEC team.

While most speculation…

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11.18.2008 12:23 pm

Big 12 bowl outlook

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Notre Dame’s win over Navy kept the Irish as the first choice for the Gator Bowl which means the Jacksonville game won’t be part of the Big 12 equation this year if they select the Irish. It looks like the…

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11.12.2008 2:09 pm

How Notre Dame vs. Navy impacts Big 12, Missouri bowls

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A key game to watch this weekend is Notre Dame at Navy because of the implications it could have on the Gator Bowl and the domino effect to the Big 12 and Missouri for post-season play.

The Gator Bowl is in…

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11.04.2008 3:16 pm

Chase Daniel and this week’s Heisman race

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A look around the country at the various Heisman polls:

Chase Daniel is out of the top five for the first time this season in the Rocky Mountain News poll. It’s the hangover effect from the consecutive losses to Oklahoma State and…

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10.31.2008 11:51 pm

Did Tigers lose focus?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Associated Press has an interesting story on how Mizzou has tried to regain focus after losses to Oklahoma State and Texas. The Tigers took the first step with the win over Colorado. Saturday it’s Baylor.

Read between the lines of…

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10.27.2008 3:13 pm

Will Pinkel or Christensen be a Washington candidate?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Now that the University of Washington has made it official that Tyrone Willingham will not be returning as head football coach, the speculation will begin if MU head coach Gary Pinkel or his assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Dave Christensen are…

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10.26.2008 12:33 pm

Sagarin ranks MU 14th as well

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Jeff Sagarin computer rankings, one of the six used in determing the BCS standings, are out for this week and has the Tigers 14th in his ELO-Chess formulation that doesn’t take into consideration margin of victory.

When the BCS numbers…

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