Mizzou’s QB competition is an opportunity for Eli Drinkwitz

It’s been a long time since Mizzou fans had to worry who would be behind center headed into the season. It’s been even longer since they had to worry about that and a new head coach.

But this is the situation that Mizzou finds itself in headed into the already unpredictable 2020 college football season. The program has been in an unusually fortunate position over the past decade or so when it came to assuredness at QB. Perhaps the most conflicted Tiger fans have had to feel in the past decade was in 2013, when James Franklin and Maty Mauk traded off helming arguably the best Tiger offense of the 2010s.

It’s not as if a majority of the faces running Eli Drinkwitz’s offense are brand new to the…