Do we still need to talk about Tennessee? No? Cool!

Let’s get to some odds and ends re: Mizzou Football that have nothing to do with Tennessee, because who wants to talk about that game any more?

• Mizzou is currently a 19-point favorite in this weekend’s game over North Texas with an over/under set at 68. Mizzou is 0-5 ATS this season, and it doesn’t seem likely they’ll be able to keep an under while their defense struggles this badly.
• Texas A&M and Mizzou will kickoff at, you guessed it, 11 am CT!

Gotta make sure that Vandy-South Carolina game gets the 3 o’clock slot!

• Happy belated birthday, Kris Abrams-Draine (who coincidentally made this week’s MV3!)

Yesterday at Rock M

• In which Aaron examines the relationship between defensive scheme, execution and how the Mizzou coaching staff is and isn’t responsible for both
• In which we picked an MV3 because we couldn’t just skip the content!
• In which the AP Top 25 poll doesn’t include Mizzou (what?!)
• In which Nate and BK spend a lot of time talking about the future of the Mizzou coaching staff, including whether or not Steve Wilks will be here after 2021

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• J’Den Cox can add another medal to his already overflowing trophy case! The Mizzou great officially took home the bronze medal at the World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway!
• The Queen’s Gambit but at Mizzou and without the substance abuse? I’d be down!

[Begim Tokhirjonova] came to MU in 2019 from her native Uzbekistan, joining the fledgling chess team. Coach Cristian Chirila recruited her. She’s at MU on a chess scholarship

Tokhirjonova has been playing chess competitively since age 5 and became a chess Woman Grandmaster at 16. In 2009, she won triple gold at the Asian Girls Championship, earning gold medals in Classical, Rapid and Blitz.

“I’m always proud of that,” she said.

She won bronze at the World Youth Championship in her category. She won the Asian Girls Championship in 2015 in her category. She won the 2018 Uzbekistan Women Chess Championship. She played for Uzbekistan in two Women’s Chess Olympiads in 2016 and 2018.

• This week’s rendition of Show Me Your Stripes focuses on the human third-down conversion, senior Barrett Banister.

• Mizzou Baseball fans, get excited. The coaching staff has seemingly reeled in a great recruiting class in 2021.

• Wondering about that crazy headless dog that danced at half time on Saturday? The Columbia Tribune has the deets.
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