It’s a brand new season for Beyond The Box Score and, as much as I am a stickler for consistent routines, allow me to break the usual pattern in this instance.
Missouri played an ok FCS team that was getting a hard restart on offense paired with a decent defense that was running something on Thursday night that they had not consistently run during the Bob Nielson era. In my team preview I had no specific statistical goals state for this matchup because, to me, this was as close to a guaranteed win as you could get with minimal effort.