
Fans don’t hate the Sooners as much as they used to… but it’s still an important game for Mizzou’s fanbase.
There hasn’t been much action on the Mizzou Football front over the last two weeks. You know. Because of the bye week?
We’ve spent a lot of that time debating where this season could potentially go for Mizzou and if it still matters without a CFP bid on the table. The rest of that time we’ve spent talking about the importance of the long-lost-now-found Oklahoma rivalry.
Nate Hurst argued this week that OU is, and always has been, the biggest game on the schedule this year. But I’m not sure everyone agrees. So we put it to you: How important is Mizzou’s rivalry with Oklahoma 13 years after the last meeting?
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You can see there’s been a bit of sentiment drift over the past decade-plus. A lot of Mizzou fans who grew up on the late aughts, where Mizzou was actually competitive with the Sooners, see the Crimson and Cream as a standard to beat. Those who grew up with the early days of the SEC… perhaps not so much. It’s good so see that the majority of y’all are still invested in this historically significant match up, but I can’t blame those of you who struggle to see its relevance.
We also tossed in a bonus question, as we always do. This one, and forgive my pivot to a basketball metaphor, was a layup.
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Like… obviously. No offense to, oh I don’t know, Sterling Webb. But Brady Cook could mean the difference between 7 and 10 wins for the Tigers this year.
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