It had been a little less than five years since No. 23 Missouri and Oklahoma State faced off on a football field.
In the 2014 Cotton Bowl, the then-No. 8 Tigers knocked off the then-No. 13 Cowboys, 41-31, in the teams’ first meeting since Missouri left the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. On Monday, the two former foes took the field once again as they squared off in the Autozone Liberty Bowl.
The 2018 edition of the decades-old rivalry was much more of a grind-it-out affair than past iterations. When the dust settled though, it was Oklahoma State that emerged with a 38-33 victory in Memphis.