I hope it doesn't come to that described in the title. But Missouri's performance against Texas in football on Saturday night was less than stellar, to be nice. You know your team performed poorly when your primary beat writer refers to your performance as genuflecting.
Third-ranked Texas is very good and most likely will wind up in the BCS National Championship Game. Quarterback Colt McCoy is a born winner. The defense is the best Missouri will face this year. But there’s no need to genuflect at the sight of burnt orange, as the Tigers have done the last two years.
Do we suck again? It doesn't look good right now as the Tigers sit at 0-3. I don't think anyone gave Missouri a real shot to win this game except for those with Tiger-striped glasses, but their performance in the whole Texas game was nothing short of horrific.
And it's not only the Texas game. The Tigers have played the last 9 quarters scared. It all started with a 56 yard pass by Nebraska's Zac Lee, the offensively-challenged Nebraska, the Nebraska team that has scored 10 fewer points against their other Big XII opponents than they got in one quarter against Missouri. That one play has put Missouri into a definite nose dive that doesn't appear to have levelled off.
Missouri has arguably already passed its most difficult stretch of the season. But to expect to win against any of the remaining Big XII games, except for (maybe) Baylor, is bit of a stretch. It's going to take the coaching job of a lifetime to keep this team from having a losing Big XII season and to keep from fulfilling Phil Steele's prophecy of a 5th-place divisional finish.