Senior day wasn’t quite what Barry Odom had imagined. The Missouri coach spent $138,000 on tickets to try and fill Memorial Stadium for Missouri’s final home game of the 2018 season, but rainy conditions...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Aside from the play that he’ll remember above all others in his college career, there’s one other moment Ronnell Perkins wants to talk about. “I was supposed to read the tight...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Derek Dooley walked out of the tunnel to a familiar sight. Six years ago, Dooley came out of the tunnel of Neyland Stadium as head coach of Tennessee facing Missouri. Dooley fell...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The bane of Missouri’s existence in the 2018 season has been an element so bizarre that it was hard to take seriously as a legitimate Achilles heel. David Blough, Michael Scarnecchia,...

Missouri was strolling from south to north after the clock hit zero in the third quarter on Saturday. It was something of a brief calm in the middle of a storm. The defensive performance up to that point...

Larry Rountree III jogged off the sideline. In the midst of a game-winning 99-yard touchdown drive, Rountree was handing duties off to his running mate for the afternoon, Damarea Crockett. After Rountree...

Perception can be a cruel and often random tool in measuring a coach’s performance, a scale left to the radically fluctuating opinions of fans and media and the eyes of whatever other beholders care...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – There was nothing to say except “I love you,” so that’s what Emanuel Hall told his mom when he found her in stands for a post-game hug. Hall’s mom, Shannon Simmons, didn’t...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Emanuel Hall was “knocked out” and didn’t get up for three or four seconds. Kevin Pendleton was helping a fallen referee back to his feet. Barry Odom was immediately listening...

The script seemed flipped for Missouri’s (4-4, 0-4 SEC) main units in Saturday’s 15-14 loss to Kentucky (7-1, 5-1 SEC). The Tiger defense, although giving up a game-winning touchdown on the final...

Missouri’s 2018 football season has featured elemental and perhaps biblical intervention, moved through the cruel and beyond the unusual. Somewhere along the way, it landed within the realm of the ironic. Because...