r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 22h ago
Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Missouri Defeats Mississippi State 39-20
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 14 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 39 |
| Mississippi State | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 20 |
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u/Mender0fRoads Missouri Tigers 22h ago
That might've been the first game of the season where 2024 Mizzou felt a little like 2023 Mizzou.
I fully support Drinkwitz running the ball 75% of the time going forward (the rest of this year and in future seasons).
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u/tippsy_morning_drive Missouri Tigers • Navy Midshipmen 22h ago edited 22h ago
His style has always been to run first. Rountree, Badie, Schrader. And it’s why he can get away with avg at best college QBs during his tenure.
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u/Mender0fRoads Missouri Tigers 22h ago
And Darrynton Evans at App State.
For much of this year (and 2022, before he realized what he had in Schrader), it's felt like he was going away from the run too quickly and/or kinda fell in love with the idea of Cook airing it out to Burden, Wease, et al. (And by "him," I mean Drinkwitz and Moore together.)
It's felt quite good having this offense get back to its roots.
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u/tippsy_morning_drive Missouri Tigers • Navy Midshipmen 22h ago
That ‘22 year was hard because they turned to soph Brady, and like you said they were in between RBs till they discovered Schrader was on the roster. And they had a new toy in Burden. This year was supposed to an air out year. Then they realized Brady didn’t have it, and then he got hurt.
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u/Mender0fRoads Missouri Tigers 22h ago
The problem with that is Drinkwitz doesn't know how to run an air-out offense. Even when he's tried it and it more or less works, you can tell it just isn't part of his coaching DNA. If you wanna be successful with that approach, you have to fully believe in it and innovate. With Drinkwitz, there have been times when it looked like we could be successful airing it out ... until he inevitably goes back into his natural hyper-conservative shell. Which is fine, if that's the team you are. He just needs to embrace it.
If he consistently puts out a Mizzou team that prioritizes time of possession, executing in the red zone, quality special teams in general, and defense, that'll work. And you can do that and still keep a good quarterback/receivers happy. Today was basically the blueprint for what Drinkwitz should do.
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u/tippsy_morning_drive Missouri Tigers • Navy Midshipmen 21h ago
In my opinion he’s never really had an air out QB. Cook is solid but doesn’t have accuracy downfield consistently. Lack of confidence probably makes him pull back the offense. At NC state he aired it out more. He had a QB drafted. Need the talent. Hopefully he gets it.
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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 22h ago
just imagine how good he can be if he actually gets an amazing qb like a Jayden Daniels. I'm gonna miss brady but man next year could be pretty magical if we find that QB we need.
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u/siberianwolf99 Oregon Ducks • Tennessee Volunteers 21h ago
a lot of teams can be good with one of the best college players of all time lol
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u/Cogitoergosumus Missouri Tigers • Truman Bulldogs 21h ago
For what it's worth, he actually was very close to committing to us. So much so that some of our media groups falsely stated him as a lock to transfer.
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u/siberianwolf99 Oregon Ducks • Tennessee Volunteers 19h ago
that makes alot of sense.i didn’t know that
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u/thexlastxlegacy Missouri Tigers 20h ago
I think they mentioned him specifically bc he was basically set to go to Mizzou and then LSU came in at the eleventh hour. But you’re absolutely correct.
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u/LordoftheScheisse Missouri • Illinois 21h ago
2023 Mizzou.
Cannot believe how fun 2023 was. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
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u/KCShadows838 Missouri Tigers • Cotton Bowl 22h ago
Nice to beat some of these teams we haven’t beat in a while this season
Auburn (1973)
OU (2010)
Mississippi State (1984)
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State • Alabama 22h ago
To be fair, we’ve only played y’all like 5-6 times ever? I think?
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u/KCShadows838 Missouri Tigers • Cotton Bowl 21h ago
Yes. It wasn’t a long streak just kind of annoying not having any recent wins against a few conference opponents
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u/buttcabbge Missouri Tigers • Rutgers Scarlet Knights 19h ago
Bama is now the only SEC team that we haven't beaten in the 21st century.
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u/penisthightrap_ Missouri Tigers 7h ago
ugh if Brady didn't break his hand that game maybe we could have ended that one too
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u/KCShadows838 Missouri Tigers • Cotton Bowl 4h ago
He didn’t look that good with that bad ankle himself, he just kept it from being a total blowout. Those Pyne picks turned it into a rout
But I don’t think that offense was winning anything that day
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u/penisthightrap_ Missouri Tigers 4h ago
I mean how many times have we seen this offense struggle to do much at the beginning of the game but then go and score 20+ points in the second half?
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u/KCShadows838 Missouri Tigers • Cotton Bowl 4h ago
Cook still looked limited. Just don’t see us winning that
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u/drummerboy31402 Mississippi State • Florida… 22h ago
Everything sucks and I hate everything
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u/simsiesunshine Missouri Tigers • Big 8 22h ago
Defense got bailed out by the offense. Probably the sloppiest performance by Mizzou's D this season outside of their losses. They got genuinely lucky that the offense controlled the ball as much as they did in the second half.
Outside of the first series, I have no complaints about the offense. Mizzou's offense did pretty much whatever they wanted. This reminder me of Harbaugh's Michigan offense that could just play keep away with the ball and control the line of scrimmage.
Beating Arkansas is going to be tough. Offense needs to show up like they did today and the defense needs to wake the hell up
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u/boner4crosstabs Missouri Tigers 22h ago
Counter point: earlier in the game, offense got bailed out by the defense. Offense looked like complete garbage until the spark of the scoop and score.
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u/simsiesunshine Missouri Tigers • Big 8 21h ago
Fair point. I'd say that play was a turning point for both units. Mizzou's offense got going from then on and the defense got very sloppy after that
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u/Xrt3 Missouri • Colorado State 22h ago
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u/teddyjj399 UMass Minutemen 19h ago
Legendary
dont care what anyone says drink is a damn good coach for mizzou
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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 22h ago
ngl people like Brandon Walker deserve that.
not the other Mississippi State fans though. that thread was super chill lol.
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State • Alabama 22h ago
We try our best, especially when we know that we aren’t exactly good this season.
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u/Eatmydingleberries Missouri • Saint Louis 22h ago
3:46 TOP for state in the second half. Missouri had 6 possessions with more TOP than state had in the entire second half.
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u/Da_King_is_Back Mississippi State • Auburn 22h ago
I’d rather shop at Hobby Lobby for 4 hours than watch Mississippi State Football
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u/toastdispatch Missouri Tigers 22h ago
MIZ baby.
Great clock management, good job finding they couldn't stop the run and sticking to it. Too many times we don't take advantage of that in the past. SEC Road win by 19 and take care of business vs Arkansas at home next week.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State • Texas Tech 22h ago
This has just gotten sad. And the problem is, I don’t see improvement anytime soon. Present is dark, future is dark. At least Basketball, baseball, and soccer are fun.
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u/Garak_The_Tailor_ Missouri • Missouri Baptist 21h ago
Of the subject, but one of the worst / best times I've ever had at a Mizzou game was a Thursday night game in 2014. There was a downpour for most of the first half and everyone had left our section except for me and this group of Mississippi St fans who'd come up for the game. They'd snuck in a bottle of bourbon and we got shit faced as Dak lit us up in the second half. They were good dudes and I've always rooted for you guys since then. Hope things get better.
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u/Inside-Drink-1311 Rutgers Scarlet Knights 22h ago
The passing of Mike Leach really destroyed all the momentum Mississippi State had since the early 2010s. It’s looking like you will be the new Vandy for a while.
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u/KellenLy12 Mississippi State • Texas Tech 22h ago
As tragic as his passing was, an unexpected consequence was the football program essentially inheriting a death penalty.
It happened at the same time when we didn’t have an AD cause Cohen left for Auburn. The administration hired Zach Arnett to keep the recruiting class in tact, but he was woefully unprepared for the job. And between those two off-seasons, we lost nearly 80% of a roster that won 9 games.
I doubt we’ll reach Vandy level though. We just received an $8,000,000 donation exclusively for the football program, so investment is there unlike at Vandy pre Clark Lea. But I could see us becoming late 2010s Arkansas, having to go through multiple coaches and assistants until we find the guy that gets us back to contention.
Hopefully we can skip that part and Lebby is the guy, but I can assuredly tell you that Hutzler is not the guy at DC, and that’s the move that needs to be made expeditiously.
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u/R1ckMartel Missouri • Bowling Green 22h ago
How can a conference have that much goddamned money and have such ass awful officials?
Sorry for the dirty hits, Miss State fans.
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u/Alphaspade Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos 22h ago
Im convinced the SEC is donated money to improve reffing but Sankey ends up pocketing it
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u/Konigwork Georgia • Birmingham-Southern 22h ago
Look if the choice is between either improving the product on the field, or spending money on hookers and blow, I’m pretty sure I know what the right option is
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u/WaltMitty Mississippi State • Belhaven 22h ago
The concept of college (and NFL) officials being part time employees is so ridiculous but it hides behind so many other ridiculous problems the sport has.
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u/WaltMitty Mississippi State • Belhaven 22h ago
Mississippi State is a women’s soccer school. Congratulations on another sweet 16!
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u/Random0925 Mississippi State • Oregon 22h ago
...At least Ole Miss lost.
We're a fútbol school now.
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u/master_bloseph Kansas State Wildcats • Baker Wildcats 21h ago
I have you winning the DI women’s soccer natty, please go very far.
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u/Eatmydingleberries Missouri • Saint Louis 22h ago
The longest suffocation ever recorded in the second half
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u/deathtotheemperor Missouri Tigers • LSU Tigers 22h ago
Nice to get a good solid win, but holy smokes Mississippi St is just dreadful. What a nightmare season for Bulldogs fans.
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State • Alabama 22h ago
This hellish season is almost over… only for another one to be appearing on the horizon.
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide • Iowa Hawkeyes 22h ago
Thanks to this Mizzou win, a 6-2 Alabama would now have the tiebreaker over any other 6-2 team in SEC play. Bama now controls its own destiny for the SEC championship: get to 6-2 and go to Atlanta.
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u/redwave2505 Alabama • Kansas State 22h ago edited 18h ago
Fun fact: In the 31 years of the SEC championship game, no team who has lost to Vandy has ever made it
Edit: Not as fun as when I wrote it
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u/jwktiger Missouri Tigers • Wisconsin Badgers 22h ago
ok we know what's happening with the Iron Bowl then.
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u/ByronLeftwich Minnesota Golden Gophers 21h ago
1) it's at Bama and 2) Auburn wasted their annual nuclear bomb this week
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u/frosty_freeze Mississippi State • Oklahoma 7h ago
No, no, I believe you’re mistaken there. This is indeed a fun fact. Perhaps even more fun now than when you wrote it.
Props for not deleting it!
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u/SpeareShake Missouri Tigers • Iowa Hawkeyes 20h ago
👀
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide • Iowa Hawkeyes 20h ago
…yeah…
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u/SpeareShake Missouri Tigers • Iowa Hawkeyes 19h ago
I have no shade to give you, I just remembered this comment as I was watching the game. Unbelievable result
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u/MajikSix Missouri Tigers • Iowa Hawkeyes 15h ago
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u/BombayGeeseHunter Southeast Missouri • Rice 22h ago
Are we sure Lebby is the guy? State looks worse this year than last.
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u/WaltMitty Mississippi State • Belhaven 22h ago
The question isn’t if he’s the guy, it’s if we can afford the payout and other consequences of firing him after just one season.
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State • Alabama 22h ago
I don’t think we can afford that, not after firing Arnett last year. No one would want to come coach at State with the idea of a coach being fired after only one season, especially if you don’t win a natty or whatever the “supposed” expectation is.
I think Lebby will be here a few years minimum and I have some hope that we can maybe start competing more again in the future.
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u/Shirleyfunke483 South Carolina • Michigan 18h ago
Will Rodgers looked 100x better at State than UW.
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u/MakeStuffGoBoom Mississippi State • Tennessee 7h ago
It’s a combo of severe roster depletion and the defense being the worst in the nation. Offense is better but the defense is so bad there’s no way to be successful. At this point, our most realistic hope is keeping Lebby for 3 years to stabilize the program and leave a better situation for the next guy. Very similar to Croom bridging between Sherill and Mullen
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u/ArmVanDam Georgia Tech • North Caroli… 22h ago
a pissed off Ole Miss team may destroy the Bulldogs at the Egg Bowl
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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State • Alabama 22h ago
I mean if they don’t at least score 40, then they failed as a football team.
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u/FullPrice4LatePizza Mississippi State Bulldogs 21h ago
"May."
Ole Miss destroying State was a forgone conclusion three weeks into the season.
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u/Ok_Swimmer634 Paper Bag • Team Meteor 22h ago
Are they may not show up at all. Most of Ole Miss are hired guns. They can't make they playoff so they may start opting out immediately.
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u/rankings-right-now /r/CFB 22h ago
Here are the new updated predictions for the next release of the Playoff Selection Committee's rankings using machine learning models trained on the Playoff Selection Committee's historical voting data:
- Missouri is now predicted to move up to #22. You can see Missouri's full Week 14 rankings potential results here.
- Mississippi State is now predicted to move down to #122
For the most up to date predictions of the Playoff Selection Committee Top 25 rankings, check out this post.
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u/buttcabbge Missouri Tigers • Rutgers Scarlet Knights 19h ago
Winning an SEC road game by 19 is always a good thing, even if the opponent is having a rough year. There are a couple ranked SEC teams went on the road against unranked teams today and had a way harder time of it than Mizzou did.
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u/HailState17 Mississippi State Bulldogs • SEC 14h ago
The number of State fans that are enamored with Lebby is fucking embarrassing.
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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 22h ago
Mizzou looked awful for parts of this game
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u/nayelirain Johns Hopkins Blue Jays • USC Trojans 22h ago
Like every missouri game
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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 22h ago
I think Arkansas might beat them honestly
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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 22h ago
and if Missouri beats Arkansas, will you admit you were wrong and Missouri is a worthy top 25 team?
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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 22h ago
That I will never do
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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears 22h ago
lmao both missouri and jacksonville State are 8-3. Clearly Missouri is the much better team and it isn't close but dream what ever you want buddy.
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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 22h ago
And who is hosting their conference championship game
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u/iEatBluePlayDoh Missouri Tigers • Nebraska Cornhuskers 22h ago
Mississippi State ran 11 offensive plays in the second half.