Plenty of familiarity between Odom, Mizzou

Missouri quarterback Conor Bazelak should have a pretty good idea how to dissect the Arkansas defense on Saturday.

His old coach is the one running it.

Barry Odom didn't wander far after he was fired by as the head coach of the Tigers late last year, accepting a job as the defensive coordinator under new Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman. Now, the two budding SEC rivals — by proximity more than anything else — meet with the intriguing subplot of Odom trying to slow down Bazelak and the Tigers.

“The way I look at it this week is I'm not playing against him. I'm playing against the players that are going to be on the field,” said Bazleak, who was recruited by Odom to Missouri out of high school.…