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Eliah Drinkwitz’s Missouri Tigers have the fewest wins and most losses in SEC

Although all three of Missouri’s SEC losses on the year are bye seven points or less, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Narrow defeats in 2021 contributed massively to Scott Frost’s early termination at Nebraska in 2022. With 3-3 Vanderbilt coming to CoMo on Saturday afternoon, another tough home loss for Eliah Drinkwitz’s Missouri Tigers would be devastating.

Even though he has built up some momentum on the recruiting trail, Mizzou cannot start SEC play at 0-4. Perhaps more importantly, Vanderbilt is not absolutely horrendous this season. Clark Lea’s Commodores are going to beat someone, and it just might be Mizzou. As strange as it may sound, Missouri has the fewest wins (two) and the most losses (four) of any team in the SEC this season.

If Missouri goes 0-for in the SEC, the Tigers will need to hit the reset button with their head coach.

There is no way around it, this is not going to end well for Kirk Ferentz at Iowa…

They may be playing on Big Noon Saturday this week, but that will be another L coming in hot for Kirk Ferentz’s Iowa Hawkeyes. The Hawks’ elite defense and special teams might keep them in the game for a quarter or two, but there is basically a less-than-zero chance No. 2 Ohio State goes No. 2 in The Horseshoe, not even with native Golden Domer Superman son Brady Quinn in attendance.

While the Hawkeyes still have a decent shot at finishing with a winning record, Iowa’s Stone Age nepotism offense needed to bite the dust yesterday. Most of the players on the 2022 Hawkeyes squad were not even conceived yet when Ferentz took over for the iconic Hayden Fry. Although most of their parents partied like it’s 1999 … in 1999, Iowa needs to ditch its Y2K dial-up internet.

Black Friday has the chance to be the final game of Ferentz’s illustrious coaching career at Iowa.