'If everybody wants to make that a rival, fine. If they don't, I'm fine, too.'
It will be rivalry week throughout college football next week, but in Missouri, it already is before the Tigers travel to face the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday. However, in Oklahoma, it's still just another week with another football game.
Missouri continues to try to make the matchup between the Tigers and Sooners a rivalry -- and now so is the SEC -- but it's just not a game that excites and gets the blood boiling for OU fans, no matter the history throughout multiple conferences.