Missouri football coach Barry Odom will to have to wait a couple weeks to cash in on one of his unique contract clauses. Starting this season, Odom earns a $5,000 bonus any week his Tigers are nationally ranked in one of the major polls. The Tigers aren’t eligible for the Coaches Poll this season — or at least until their NCAA sanctions are overturned, if that happens this fall — but the 62 voters who make up the Associated Press Top 25 are free to vote for Odom’s team. A handful had the Tigers on their ballot for the AP preseason poll but not enough to squeak into the top 25.
Clemson, Alabama top AP poll but Mizzou just misses cut
