Every Monday morning, I’ll start the week with my Ten Thoughts. The idea here is simple: I write what’s on my mind. The vast majority of it is going to be Mizzou-related. During football season, that will dominate, in basketball season it will be more of a hoops flavor, but we’ll try to cover everything in this space every week. Now and then you’ll get some personal news or non-Mizzou sports related stuff. On to this week’s thoughts.
1) Was it really as bad as we thought it was? Well, yes and no. The game on Saturday? Every bit as bad. Like throw the film in the garbage can, light it on fire and scatter the ashes in Stephens Lake bad. The performance on the field was awful. There’s not one thing Missouri should take from that game and feel good about it. I didn’t know Missouri had that type of performance in it. It was as if each and every position group was playing its worst and trying to one up each other. The good news is, I legitimately don’t think Missouri can play any worse.
The better news? Everything that happened after Texas A&M was done sending Mizzou back home with its tail between its legs. Alabama lost, Tennessee lost, Michigan lost again, USC lost again. There is one SEC team without a loss. There are nine power conference teams without a loss and two of them play each other this weekend. I know it’s hard to see it from here, but everything you started this season hoping for is absolutely on the table and will be for at least another two weeks. I said on Saturday’s postgame show (by the way, we’re nearing 8,000 views on YouTube which is about double what we normally get, plus another couple thousand podcast listens; don’t tell me hate watching/listening/reading isn’t real) that I wasn’t interested in talking about the College Football Playoff and really I’m not. I don’t think there’s much point in it. Not because it’s impossible for Missouri to get there, but more because it’s so far off and requires so many things to go right between now and then. There are going to be a ton of upsets we don’t see coming and right now I have no idea if Missouri is actually capable of playing like a playoff team in 2024 or whether it just got lumped in with those teams because it would have gotten there in 2023…