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1985: The Wagon De-Rails (Part Three)
For other seasons, go here. Part OnePart Two An inconsistent offense and a porous sieve of a defense. Not a good recipe for a first-year coach. After Mizzou's 0-5 start, Woody Widenhofer had no choice but to look to the future at a number of positions. The youth level was, by necessity, already...
1985: The Wagon De-Rails (Part Two)
For other seasons, go here. Part One There is no bigger sign of foreboding than losing at home to Northwestern. At least that was the case in the mid-1980s. Granted, the Wildcats appeared to have a bit of a feisty offense, and granted, the Mizzou offense had shown signs of life after a comatose...
1984: Bad Breaks, Key Mistakes, and a Tough Decision to Make (Part Three)
Part OnePart Two Where we last left the 1984 Tigers, they were holding on by a thread. Three last-second losses to good teams had left them with no margin for error. To qualify for a bowl, they would have to beat the two imminently beatable teams on the schedule--Iowa State and Kansas--at home...
1984: Bad Breaks, Key Mistakes, and a Tough Decision to Make (Part Two)
Part One It's bad enough starting 0-2. At 0-2, you have to finish 6-3 just to become bowl eligible, and with road games against the Big 8's top three teams--Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State--not to mention a huge home game against Notre Dame on the horizon, suddenly finding six wins was...
1984: Bad Breaks, Key Mistakes, and a Tough Decision to Make (Part One)
As fun as it may be to write about the great seasons in Mizzou history, the idea behind my Mizzou Football History book will be to make you care about all of the seasons, not just the really good ones you've read about before. I will likely bounce back and forth between good seasons and bad in...
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