Beyond the Box Score: DE-FENSE. DE-FENSE.

I don’t know if the defense has been “fixed”, per se, but man...the differences of the past two weeks and the first six games of the year are noticeable, yeah?

If it truly was just the fact that the players needed time to acclimate to Steve Wilks and his system then it certainly seems like the timer has stopped. Obviously this week proves a new challenge that the Tigers could easily fail, but at least against Georgia and South Carolina, this defense seems to have finally figured out the stuff that has bothered them since the beginning of the season.

And with one of the best running backs in school history, your Missouri Tigers have morphed into a late 90’s football team, reliant on a…