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Missouri Football: Five games the Tigers should schedule

By Eric Quackenbush

Oct 22, 2016; Columbia, MO, USA; Missouri Tigers head coach Barry Odom and the starters run onto the field before the game against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders at Faurot Field. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 22, 2016; Columbia, MO, USA; Missouri Tigers head coach Barry Odom and the starters run onto the field before the game against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders at Faurot Field. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Nebraska Cornhuskers mascot entertains fans prior to the game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Nebraska Cornhuskers mascot entertains fans prior to the game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /

Kansas

kansas would have been the easy choice here, and believe me, I want to see Missouri just beat the stuffing out of the Jayhawks as much as anyone else who wears the back and gold, but Nebraska would at least present a challenge to Mizzou.

Once again, the Huskers own Missouri in the series for the foreseeable future, with a record of 65-36-3. The last game that the Tigers won was in 2008, under head coach Gary Pinkel. Mizzou topped Nebraska, 52-17. The Huskers went on to beat Mizzou two-in-a-row after that year, but they have not rescheduled.

In a rematch, I would take the Tigers to win over Nebraska, inching Missouri’s win tally ever so slightly closer to Nebraska’s.

Interestingly, Missouri won the first two contests between the schools, in 1893 and 1894.

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