no road SEC game should be considered easy.

Posted on: September 26, 2023 at 11:26:06 CT

I think the fact that Mizzou didn't get caught in the trap game that was Memphis is a good sign that they're focused on what they need to do. There's still a ton of room for improvement, but it's clearly the best Drink-led Mizzou team so far.

Fans can focus on whatever the **** we want.

This is the same Vandy QB that started the game against us last year and went 13/30 for 115 yards, 0 TD and 1 INT before being benched for Mike Wright, who was 8/14 with 47 yards and 0 TD before a miracle 80-yard TD catch and run late in the 4th to make the game so ridiculously close.

Mike Wright plays for Mississippi State now. AJ Swann is their QB. He completes barely above 50% of his passes, has thrown 11 TDs and 7 INTs. Their backup might be better again, Ken Seals; he's 7/11 for 96 yards with 2 TD and 0 INT, but I would bet he did that against Alabama A&M. They're not a threat to pass.

Their running backs are useless. Leading rusher is getting only 4.5 per carry (about 2 yards per carry less than Schrader), and he has 236 yards on the season with 40 of them coming on 1 carry. Outside of that long, he is 51 for 196. Drops his ypc by almost 0.75. So they're not a threat to run.

They've scored 167 points this year in 5 games. 69 of those points, so just over 41%, have come in the 4th quarter. Law of averages of course would say you expect to score 25% of your points in a given quarter, so scoring 41% in the 4th quarter means you're probably picking up points in garbage time.

Vanderbilt is not a threat.

Can Mizzou lose this game? Aboslutely. We're Mizzou, it's what we do.

But Vanderbilt historically sucks, and this team doesn't look like it's breaking that lineage.

38-13 Mizzou.