For those of us that grew up in Columbia, MO and rarely had a terribly “winning” season, this has been rather interesting. Case in point, my mother had to ask Dad what a “#6 ranking” meant… “Is that in the Big 12,” she asked? “Nope…that’s in the nation.”
Not that I’m a terribly big football fan or anything…but…
…good job, Tigers. I look forward to next week’s game!
(…of course, this is all made sweeter by simple virtue that they beat the undefeated KU to make this happen…w00t!)
Edit: Here’s an article in USA Today (Mom sent it to me…) by a sports columnist about the Tigers’ season, and game against Kansas. Says it all, really…
gee thanx for making me look brilliant!!
I think it’s more of a “it’s really bad when you’ve lived in Columbia for 20 years, and/or central Missouri all your life, and you don’t know what national ranking is because your local team is never anywhere near it” sort of thing… Can’t fault you on that one! 😛