Skip to Main Content
The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Liberty Bowl: Final pregame thoughts and predictions from The Maneater staff

Liberty Bowl: Final pregame thoughts and predictions from The Maneater staff

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Missouri’s month off is finally over. It’s Liberty Bowl Day. Missouri (8-4) kicks off against Oklahoma State (6-6) in the 60th Liberty Bowl at 2:45 p.m. CST Monday in Memphis. Here...

Liberty Bowl Preview: Okwuegbunam out, MU secondary ready for Oklahoma State challenge

Liberty Bowl Preview: Okwuegbunam out, MU secondary ready for Oklahoma State challenge

Andy Kimball December 31, 2018

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – When Missouri faces off against Oklahoma State on Monday, it will be faced with a team that has endured more ups and downs than the Tigers have this season. The Cowboys pulled off upsets...

Rainy day at the Liberty Bowl? MU’s Odom is prepared

Rainy day at the Liberty Bowl? MU’s Odom is prepared

Bennett Durando December 30, 2018

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Spectators will be wishing that the rain, rain goes away in Memphis ahead of the Liberty Bowl between Missouri (8-4) and Oklahoma State (6-6) on Dec. 31 at 2:30 p.m. CST. But the weather...

If these five plays had gone differently, Missouri would be 11-1

If these five plays had gone differently, Missouri would be 11-1

Bennett Durando December 30, 2018

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Give credit where it’s due: Missouri’s 2018 season has indisputably been a success. In three years under Barry Odom, the Tigers have gone from 4-8 to 7-6 to 8-4, pending Monday’s...

Missouri football adds 22 new recruits after first day of early signing period

Missouri football adds 22 new recruits after first day of early signing period

Max Baker December 21, 2018

Christmas came early this year for coach Barry Odom and the Tigers, who saw a number of recruits sign their letter of intent on the first National Signing Day for the class of 2019. Before Wednesday,...

Future looks bright for Missouri volleyball after surprising success in 2018

Future looks bright for Missouri volleyball after surprising success in 2018

Ben Ramirez December 15, 2018

It was meant to be a rebuilding year. But at season’s end, Missouri volleyball had made its fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, losing to No. 6 Nebraska in the second round. Missouri (24-8,...

MU defensive end Tre Williams arrested on suspicion of domestic assault

MU defensive end Tre Williams arrested on suspicion of domestic assault

Bennett Durando December 10, 2018

Missouri defensive end Tre Williams was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of second-degree domestic assault, multiple sources confirmed. He has been suspended indefinitely from the MU football team. Williams,...

Notebook: Odom talks contract, Kelly Bryant, bowl game prep

Notebook: Odom talks contract, Kelly Bryant, bowl game prep

Bennett Durando December 8, 2018

Missouri may have 23 days until it plays football again in the Liberty Bowl against Oklahoma State, but the past week has been as eventful as a college football program can have during such a long break. The...

Column: Odom’s raise earned, but it came too soon

Column: Odom’s raise earned, but it came too soon

Adam Cole December 6, 2018

Barry Odom looked like a new man in 2018. Moving forward, he’ll be paid like one. The UM System Board of Curators voted unanimously on Wednesday to extend the Missouri football coach’s contract. The...

Missouri extends Odom through 2024

Missouri extends Odom through 2024

Bennett Durando December 5, 2018

The University of Missouri has made its faith in football coach Barry Odom clear. The UM System Board of Curators voted unanimously to give Odom a two-year contract extension through the 2024 season in...

Commentary: Landing Bryant a culmination and beginning for Odom

Commentary: Landing Bryant a culmination and beginning for Odom

Adam Cole December 4, 2018

Kelly Bryant could have chosen to go anywhere. If he had the talent to play at Clemson – to lead Clemson to the College Football Playoff – he had the country in his hands. And he chose Missouri. Bryant...

Prized transfer Kelly Bryant chooses Missouri

Prized transfer Kelly Bryant chooses Missouri

Bennett Durando December 4, 2018

Missouri football’s gold standard in 2018 may have been even greater than its final 8-4 record, but future ceilings and floors remained unclear and dimensionless without an answer regarding one critical...