Mizzou can win SEC and BCS title
by Pauleb_Mizzou on Feb 4, 2012 2:42 AM CST
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Cool opinionated article with facts to back it up on why Mizzou can win the SEC, BCS national title. It is a long read but definately worth it for a MIzzou fan. Check it out.
Why Missouri Will Win The SEC East, SEC, and BCS National Title in 2012. (I am Sorry, Somehow Tebow Makes His Way Into This Article)
As the basketball team starts to take the spotlight and hopes of their own National Title and Big 12 title before they leave the conference, it is all said and done for the football team in the Big 12. Recruiting day put a lot of smiles on folks faces as DGB, the nations top recruit, stayed home. Right afterwards fans flooded message boards and twitter about the factor Mizzou is now an elite team. Of course, as fans we are going to say that no matter what and the media probably still wants to beg to differ. But let's look at this at a realistic stand point. Is DGB going to bring us home a national title? Well it sure in the hell isn't going to hurt. If anything DGB is just going to make it a bit easier. Missouri had a good shot at winning the SEC before this happened and I am going to break it down game by game for you.Read more click here........
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I think that it is wildly optimistic.
I think that going to Texas and Oklahoma – with the familiarity between the teams – was hard enough for Mizzou to come away victorious. Going to South Carolina and Florida, not to mention an “away” game in the SEC Title (if it gets that far) and a game at Tennessee…I’m looking for somewhere between 7-5 (pessimistically) to 9-3 (optimistically) – which should garner us a bit more than the Independence Bowl or Poinsettia Bowl that the Big 12 would offer.
Oh yeah I do get that...
The biggest thing I hope people get from this is not the fact I am saying SEC is not good but that we have a chance to be really good and better than most think. Now the predictions of the National title and undefeated year is a stretch but a stretch that is still possible. If you notice in all my predictions I talk about how we lose the game also
This is the kind of thing that people will remember down the road.
Florida and South Carolina harder games than Alabama? Tennessee harder than UGA? Averaging 30ish points against SEC defenses? Somebody might have a date with reality in the fall. Or, put another away, it’s not the fall that kills you as much as a the sudden stop at the bottom.
Missouri is a welcome addition to the conference, and presents some serious challenges. But perhaps this is a little kinda moderately pretty seriously over the top optimistic.
Best of luck to you getting ready for football season. Congrats on a solid recruiting class.
This is supposed to be highly optimistic....
In all honesty yes this article is very optimistic….that was the point. It is meant as no disrespect to any SEC team…In all honesty does Mizzou go undefeated (or win the conference etc) as easily as the article states…no. Anyone wants to comment the page itself can at mizzounash@gmail.com The point was to show how Mizzou could pull off the SEC. It was meant to be over the top. Will the scenarios really happen? We will all have to wait and see. This was supposed to be very very biased to Mizzou and opinionated.
by Pauleb_Mizzou on Feb 4, 2012 3:39 PM CST up reply actions
Great Post
If it happens I’ll remember you said it first.
MIZ-DGB
by mu-chief-stl.cards fan on Feb 4, 2012 6:04 PM CST reply actions
I think we'll do better than most "haters" think.
Granted, the “haters” think we’ll never win another football game ever. They’re wrong.
There are no easy games in the SEC, and no easy venues (one could argue that Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington is, but in reality it’s not).
I still think our contemporaries this year—if we were already in the SEC—were Auburn and Florida: we were about on equal footing as AU, better than UF. What bowls did they go to this year? Both went to something a lot better than the Independence Bowl.
Our season will probably be decided before we play Bama: our main divisional games are in September against UGA & USCar. But we can’t become complacent afterward those like a typical MU team of the last several years (excluding ’11) that falls off towards the end of the year.
Now, time to go read the article… :)
Now that I've read it....
….it’s not entirely unreasonable. It has to be premised with us not getting caught in a trap game and us bringing our A game to most games and avoid costly injuries. There are a few where we can play our B game and get away with it, but the month of November we have to put it all on the table since we’ll be away from home the whole month (unless we get a cream-puff before the “steak game” with aTm).
Interesting read.
If everything goes absolutely right
I think our ceiling is 9 wins next year. I think we can run our non-con. I don’t think we beat Alabama or Florida. Georgia and S. Carolina will be very tough games to win, but I suspect the Georgia game will have an Oklahoma Homecoming-like atmosphere, so who knows what can happen. Until A&M can prove their talent superiority, I’ll assume Mizzou wins. Not much faith in Tennessee. Vandy can be a giant killer next year, but Mizzou should be favored. Kentucky is KU with the letters inverted. BCS bowl or SEC Championship game is very unlikely, but I would expect Mizzou to bowl.
"You have to remember, basketball to the University of Miami is like football to the University of Kansas." - Kim English
by Gaknar on Feb 6, 2012 10:25 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
And not in Shreveport!
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" – Teets
yeah I expect a 7-5 or 8-4 season for us next year
If we get some breaks in the tough matchups you mentioned, it’s not unreasonable that we compete for the East title… but that’s a BIG if.
I think our ceiling is probably a Cotton Bowl berth in 2012-13
I believe in the The Black & Gold Standard
People keep mentioning the Cotton Bowl...
Have they come out and said that they’ll make it a point to start picking teams from the East?
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It's great to be an optimist...
…and we welcome Missouri to the SEC, which we expect to be a mutually beneficial arrangement for both parties. However, while we can all appreciate the excitement you manifested in this post, getting wins against Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida would be unlikely. You’re talking four teams that all had top 10 defenses in the country last season—and although Bama loses a lot of talent, they just reload every year, and the other three teams return almost all of their starters on D. Georgia not only returns 10 of 11 defensive starters from the #3 defense in the country, which allowed only 268 ypg in 2011; the team also returns a three-year starter (and All-SEC second-teamer) at QB, all of its receivers and running backs, and signed two of the nation’s best RBs out of high school this season to give the running game some depth. South Carolina lost Alshon Jeffery, but returns Marcus Lattimore and most of its defense. And Missouri’s defense lost most of its defensive line from a D that gave up a whopping 382 yards and 24 points per game last season (good for 61st in the nation in 2011).
Sorry, but a national title? I don’t see an SEC East title for this team. Georgia will win that early contest going away (after the emotions all blow away, talent takes over—and defense wins championships), by a score of something like 42-28, and South Carolina, Alabama and Florida all look like losses for the Tigers to me. My prediction is an 8-4 regular season with a decent bowl game as a reward—and a freshman All-American at wide receiver.
Welcome to the league, gentlemen! We’re glad to have you aboard!
Glad to be in....
I am sure glad we are in the SEC…I look forward to it… I know Mizzou has a big shot at this and to me until they are defeated on the field they will go undefeated. Look forward to 9/8
by Pauleb_Mizzou on Feb 9, 2012 7:37 PM CST up reply actions
An 8-4 season
Would be a high water mark. Georgia won’t be contending for the SEC nor national titles with Richt, anyway, though.
by Obi_Ugochukwu on Feb 10, 2012 2:12 PM CST up reply actions
Unbelievably delusional
Mizzou will be lucky to get 8 SEC wins combined their first three or four seasons, not to mention all in one year. You guys contended maybe ONE year in the Big XII, and never made a BCS bowl, and you think it will happen in the SEC when Florida, Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, and even Arkansas and South Carolina are looming above you? Absolutely unreal. I’m sorry, but Mizzou will never, ever win a national title in football in the SEC. The amount of stars that would have to align — with every other program having a down season and Mizzou having their best ever — make this just a Tiger pipe dream.
while I totally agree that the linked blog's articles is far too optimistic
however, I think you don’t give Mizzou near enough credit.
…and I’ll just leave it at that
I believe in the The Black & Gold Standard
Do you really think so?
Look, you’re not in the Big XII anymore. The SEC is an entirely different animal. A national title and SEC title, those are out of the question. Don’t even dream of it. You never won a single Big XII title, and the Big XII only had Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, teams that SEC squads regularly owned. So now that you’re in the SEC, with 6 programs that are legitimately national elites, you think it will somehow get BETTER?
I just don’t buy it. Hope springs eternal before any sports season, but you at least have to temper it. I see Mizzou fans prediction an 8-4 season as a LOW mark, and that’s just mind-blowingly unbelievable to me. You think you’ll waltz into any new conference, let alone the SEC, with the football tradition that Mizzou has an win 4 or 5 games right off the bat?
by Obi_Ugochukwu on Feb 10, 2012 4:50 PM CST up reply actions
your patronizing aside..
..we’ll see what happens moving forward, and I’m excited for see how the Tigers react to new challenges in all sports.
I believe in the The Black & Gold Standard
just so you know,
the rest of your brethren that has ventured over here has wished us luck and were complimentary of the mizzou football program. i’m guessing you’re not the most popular person amongst them.
Genesis 1:1
by threadkiller on Feb 10, 2012 5:13 PM CST up reply actions
never mind, noob troll alert. figures.
Genesis 1:1
by threadkiller on Feb 10, 2012 5:15 PM CST up reply actions
I'm not a troll
I’m just being realistic. Do you really believe Mizzou will step into the SEC and dominate when there is literally no precedent for that in your history, and it hasn’t happened to the other (relative) newcomers to the SEC, Arkansas and South Carolina? It took 20 years for each of them to get to 10 and 11 win seasons, and you think Mizzou will hop in and dominate?
Good luck.
by Obi_Ugochukwu on Feb 11, 2012 9:25 AM CST up reply actions
Looking at where you post
It seems it would do you well to actually follow a team and be a fan rather than try and belittle others
"I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches" -Josey Wales
I don't think most of us expect Mizzou to "hop in and dominate"
I can’t really see us winning 10 games next season. I think 7-5 or 8-4 will probably be the case, and would be pleasantly very surprised to see more than 8 wins.
As an aside, I think it’s quite trollish to join a site simply in order to berate a fan-post (not even an actual article on the blog).
I believe in the The Black & Gold Standard
I'm just going to remember your "8 wins in 3 or 4 seasons" prediction.
"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan
Rocky Balboa once told me, "Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are."
Mizzou come one
We need to stop thinking we cant come in and dominate. It takes an attitude as a fan base to say hey we will win and win it all. We have a great team next year and honestly the SEC has had trouble trying to control quarterbacks who can run. I am pretty sure a lot of people never thought Florida in Tebows Junior year would have won it all and score 40+ points on these SEC defenses. Look at the out of conference records for these SEC teams and most importantly the SCORES. I am convinced the SEC defense is not as great as everyone thinks but the offenses are just a lot worse than everyone thinks. Mizzou will tear it up and we need to stop thinking the glass is half empty. THE freggin glass is FULL until someone takes a sip and we lose. As a fan base we need to stop being so modest because their fans do not think highly of us.The only ones who will support us is us…NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
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