Mizzou Beats Kansas: The Links

Recaps

• MUtigers.com: Tigers Trounce Jayhawks 24-10 in Border Showdown
  MUtigers.com: Mizzou/Kansas Post-Game Notes
• The Trib: Franklin snaps out of funk, feasts on Jayhawks
  The Trib (Dave Matter): Emptying the Notebook: Border Snore
  
• The Missourian: James Franklin overcomes struggles to lead Missouri to Border Showdown win
  The Missourian: Missouri-Kansas lacks usual drama
  The Missourian: Fans sound off about Border Showdown, Missouri leaving for SEC
  The Missourian: PHOTO GALLERY: Missouri beats Kansas 24-10 in last game as conference rivals
• KC Star: Franklin leads Missouri to 24-10 comeback win in Border War
  KC Star: KU falls apart in second half of Border War loss
  KC Star: Out of adversity, Franklin stands and delivers for Mizzou
• Post-Dispatch: Mizzou gets last laugh on KU, 24-10
  Post-Dispatch: MU's Franklin turns things around
• PowerMizzou: Leaving in style
  PowerMizzou: Sunday Grade Card
  PowerMizzou: PHOTOS: Inside the Border War
  PowerMizzou: PMTV-HD: Pinkel post-game
  PowerMizzou: PMTV-HD: T.J. Moe
• KBIA Sports Extra: Mizzou gets down to business in second half, beats Kansas in border war
• Fox Sports MW: Tigers rally past Jayhawks in Border War rivalry
• Lawrence Journal-World: So long: Kansas gives Missouri going-away gift in 24-10 Tigers' victory
  Lawrence Journal-World: Game balls and gassers: KU vs. Missouri

THROW IT TO THE FAT GUY

• The Trib: Game Notes

  Quarterback James Franklin has earned recognition for spreading the ball around to a wide array of receivers this season, and he found an unlikely target yesterday in left tackle Justin Britt.

  Though technically not a pass, Franklin threw laterally to Britt after faking a handoff to junior tailback Kendial Lawrence on a misdirection play early in the third quarter with Missouri facing second-and-13 from the Kansas 15. The 6-foot-5, 295-pound sophomore plowed forward for a 7-yard gain.

  Britt’s teammates and Pinkel were teasing him for not reaching the end zone.

  "I got in front of Travis Ruth and said, ‘Can you believe this guy didn’t score a touchdown?’ " Pinkel said. "So we were ripping him a little bit in the locker room. He said he wanted man-to-man because nobody was going to cover him then. He said the thing that screwed it up was the zone — zone coverage.

  "Like he really knows zone coverage and man-to-man. He’s an offensive lineman."

  Apparently one with a trusted set of hands.

  Pinkel said Missouri had the play in its game plan for at least four weeks, and he had made sure to warn the officials about it each time so they didn’t mistakenly flag the Tigers for throwing to an ineligible receiver. Yesterday was the first time they put it into practice.

  Britt was erroneously credited with a reception on the final stat sheet, meaning Franklin’s passing totals were inflated to 187 yards, not 180.

Bowls?

• KC Star: Mizzou after the game: Big 12 won't help Mizzou on bowl
  

Border War History And Future

• The Trib: Border War cease-fire was more of a misfire
  The Trib: Fambrough remembered before War
  
• The Missourian: Missouri's new SEC mates play nonconference rivalry games all the time
  The Missourian: Missouri vs. Kansas might be going away, maybe that's good
  
• Post-Dispatch (Bryan Burwell): In trying to spite Mizzou, KU hurts itself
  Post-Dispatch: A rivalry like no other
  Post-Dispatch: End of MU-KU rivalry isn't so bad after all
• KC Star: Jay Nixon says MU-KU Border War should continue
  KC Star: Neither side budging in Border Cold War
  KC Star: The Star's All-Border War team
• Lawrence Journal-World: First Fam, now MU: KU looking at void
  Lawrence Journal-World: Missouri's T.J. Moe wants Border War to continue