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Let's talk about the Missouri Tigers.

Drod Hamilton joins us from PowerMazoo.com.

That's the rival site that covers the Tigers up there.

And Drard, there's no getting around the fact

that maybe one of the biggest surprises

in college football last year was the Missouri Tigers, a team that I think

was predicted towards the middle of the pack, maybe even the bottom of the SEC East.

Instead, they were a top 10 team for most of the year.

Ten wins in the regular season.

They go to the Cotton Bowl, they beat Ohio State.

All that's great, and now it leads to expectations.

Is this a team that's ready to handle big expectations in 2024?

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, like you said, it was a strong

2023 campaign. Think after you add in the Cotton Bowl victory, I think they had four ranked victories

you know versus top 25 teams.

So last year their motto, you know something approved, something for that they always are saying that and kind of towards the end of the regular season last year and then

Stretching through you know spring ball that finished up a couple weeks ago,

and I'm pretty sure they'll go through the rest of the season is kind of like, why stop now?

That's their new thing, you know, they did all that work and they've got some momentum going but why you know stop at 11

wins why stop at the cotton bowl they're looking at that 12 team playoff in and

they've got the pieces to do it. They retained a lot of their coaching staff, you know, outside of defensive coordinator, Blake Baker and Edge coach Kevin Peoples, but they got it in a couple good one good coaches replaced them them so when you add in so much

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