This is it. The last game of the 2021 season. The first bowl game that the Missouri Tigers will be playing in since 2018 despite being eligible for a bowl in 2019 and 2020. The first bowl game for over half of this roster and the first bowl game for this Missouri football coaching staff.
And the opponent is the annoying, giant-killing, triple-option gurus of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Here’s what Army did during the regular season:
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The Black Knights outlasted a surprisingly excellent Western Kentucky squad in the second week of the year, had a baffling loss on the road at Ball State, and then lost consecutive games to P5 opponents in drastically different styles.