You know the story by now. Mizzou faces a ranked opponent with high hopes only to be sent crashing back to reality once the game starts. As one media expert pointed out “Between Texas A&M and Mizzou one was ready for the rigors of SEC football and Mizzou wasn’t.” One former Big 12 team is in the hunt for a BCS bowl while the other’s season is over.
Here is what the media is saying about Mizzou’s latest loss and the state of it’s football program:
Johnny Manziel shines as Texas A&M rolls over Mizzou | ESPN
The Aggies (10-2, 6-2 SEC) scored touchdowns on their first six drives to build a 42-7 halftime lead and coast to their first 10-win season since 1998.
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The win snaps A&M’s three-game losing streak to Missouri (5-7, 2-6 SEC), and will keep the Tigers from becoming bowl eligible for the first time since 2004.
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“We don’t act like this is just real unusual that they scored some points (on us)” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. “It’s not.”
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“The last three years I’ve been here we always went to a bowl game,” Lawrence said. “So this is tough to end this way.”
Pinkel not ready to address the future | STL Today
Eliminating any remaining room for interpretation of the state of Mizzou’s football program at the end of its first season in the Southeastern Conference, No. 9 Texas A&M pulverized MU 59-29 on Saturday before 87,222 at Kyle Field.
The lopsided loss assured MU (5-7 overall, 2-6 SEC) of its first losing season since 2004 and called into question coach Gary Pinkel’s recent assertion that the “infrastructure” and “dynamics” of Mizzou football aren’t comparable to that year and that MU is on a sound foundation.
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Instead, Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel will be left spending his time determining how best to re-energize a team that is just 11-12 against FBS foes the last two years.
No. 9 Texas A&M Smashes Mizzou 59-29 | Fox 4 News
In a battle between the SEC’s two newest members, the ninth-ranked Texas A&M Aggies crushed the Missouri Tigers 59-29 at Kyle Field on Saturday night.
Texas A&M (10-2, 6-2 SEC) racked up 645 total yards of offense in what proved to be a lopsided contest from jump street. The Aggies took a 21-0 lead on a 38-yard touchdown run by senior running back Christine Michael with 3:20 left in the first quarter.
Texas A&M freshman quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate, Johnny Manziel, picked Missouri (5-7, 2-6 SEC) apart throughout most of the game. Manziel threw three consecutive TD passes in the second quarter to give the Aggies a 42-0 lead.
Aggies end Mizzou’s season | Connect Mid Missouri
The Aggies (10-2, 6-2 SEC) scored touchdowns on their first six drives to build a 42-7 halftime lead and coast to their first 10-win season since 1998.
About the only drama in this one came when Manziel, the Heisman Trophy hopeful, was shaken up on a tackle at the end of a run in the first quarter.
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Missouri (5-7, 2-6) won’t make a bowl game in its first SEC season.
Mizzou bowl hopes bounced in blowout | STL Today
Eliminating any remaining room for interpretation of the state of Mizzou’s football program at the end of its first season in the Southeastern Conference, No. 9 Texas A&M pulverized MU 59-29 on Saturday before 87,222 at Kyle Field.
The lopsided loss assured MU (5-7 overall, 2-6 SEC) of its first losing season since 2004 and called into question coach Gary Pinkel’s recent assertion that the “infrastructure” and “dynamics” of Mizzou football aren’t comparable to that year and that MU is on a sound foundation.
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Mizzou entered the day with a slight hope of earning a bowl berth even in defeat because of a dearth of bowl-eligible teams that could have meant consideration even with a 5-7 record.
But by game time, the number of teams eligible for the 70 bowl spots had gone from 62 to 69 on Saturday, Wright Waters, executive director of the Football Bowl Association, said by phone from Alabama.
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A&M, also in its first season in the SEC, is 10-2 and 6-2 and hoping to earn an at-large bid to a BCS bowl.
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With Manziel throwing for 249 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 48 yards in the first half, he broke Cam Newton’s single-season Southeastern Conference total offense record of 4,327 yards.
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“Their offense is obviously remarkably potent,” Pinkel said, noting his own offense’s issues and adding, “It was kind of the perfect storm the wrong way.”
Manziel & A&M Manhandle Mizzou 59-29 | Fox 2 Now
