When I — Deputy Manager Josh Matejka, for those looking to assign cosmic blame — tweeted the following poll during Missouri’s 42-10 rout of Troy, I promise I wasn’t trying to invoke some unspoken (and nonexistent) curse that lies upon the whole of Missouri sports. I did not make some Faustian deal with some Jawhawk-loving devil.
That being said, it sort of feels like I was gripping a monkey’s paw, doesn’t it?
On Monday afternoon, the SEC announced Garrett as the conference’s Co-Defensive Player of the Week. It’s the second time this year Garrett has earned the honor.