Closing the gap.
Get ready to hear different iterations of that three-word phrase about 10 million times from July to December.
All right, maybe that's overexaggerating. But we'll check back to see how accurate my estimate was when the calendar flips to 2022.
That's the mantra we started to hear at the end of 2020 from Missouri head football coach Eli Drinkwitz about the situation for the Tigers.
From his view, and many others, the next step of progress for Missouri is to improve on its No. 3 finish in the Southeastern Conference's East Division standings.