GAME WEEK – #10 Texas at #19 Missouri

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Texas opens as a 3.5-point favorite against Missouri​

The Longhorns head to Columbia for the first time since 2011.

The No. 10 Texas Longhorns have seemingly reversed their downward momentum, rattling off a pair of wins to keep their postseason hopes alive, but head out for a pair of tough road games that will make or break the season. That two-step starts with thep program’s first trip to Columbia since 2015 to face the resurgent #19 Missouri Tigers as 3.5-point favorites according to FanDuel.
The 11 a.m. kickoff will air on ESPN.

Missouri has been up-and-down through the start of SEC play, with a lopsided win over the Arkansas Razorbacks moving them to 3-2 in conference play. Their four-score win over Arkansas marked the return of running back Ahmad Hardy, who missed the first seven games while rehabbing from being hit by a stray bullet during the offseason.

Jamal Roberts picked up the slack in his absence, racking up 1,035 yards and nine touchdowns through eight games — averaging 125 yards per contest to start the year. Adding Hardy, who rushed for more than 1,600 yards a year ago, back to that backfield should give the Tigers a huge boost to an already humming offense.
Missouri turned the ball over to quarterback Austin Simmons to start the year and didn’t look back after the quarterback transferred in from Ole Miss.

Simmons was pegged to be the Rebels’ starter a year ago before an injury cost him the job, losing out to an emerging Trinidad Chambliss. The former top-60 recruit has looked the part in most games this year, but needed just 179 yards to top the Razorbacks on Saturday.

Texas leads the all-time series 18–9–1. This is the first meeting between the programs as SEC opponents and the first time Texas has played in Columbia since 2011.

Texas is coming off a dominant 31-3 home win over Mississippi State to move to 10th in the AP Poll. Missouri is ranked No. 19 and recently coasted to a lopsided win over Arkansas.

This is the first of a grueling three-game November road trip for the Longhorns as they push for a College Football Playoff spot.

 

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Weather forecast for the Mizzou game gives us our first "cool" game. Predicted high of 54, low of 36.

 

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LB Rasheem Biles named Co-Defensive Player of the Week, and DL Maraad Watson was named Defensive Lineman of the Week by the SEC.

 

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Smothers has a torn MCL and is out for the rest of the season.

 

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After looking at the stats above for Biles, I looked up Lance Jackson’s and they didn’t even come close to the impact he is having on the game in every game I have seen. He has a lot more hurries and pressures than he is getting credit for by whomever is keeping the stats!!