Wake up!

Maybe it's appropriate that the Cotton Bowl is played at 10:30 AM on New Year's Day. It seems a lot of people need a wake up call, myself included. I'll admit it, when I heard that Mizzou was facing Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl my initial reaction was that the Razorbacks would emerge victorious. I thought Darren McFadden and Felix Jones would run wild, keeping the Tigers offense off the field just enough.

But what sense does that really make? About as much sense as Mizzou being in this game in the first place. This is an 11-2 Mizzou team that has only lost to Oklahoma playing against an Arkansas team that went 4-4 in the SEC. The fact that these two teams even meet in a bowl game shows you how skewered the system itself is. The Big 12 North Champs vs. the 6th place team in the SEC? And there's only a 3 point spread? Wake up!

Mizzou may give up a couple of long touchdown runs but there is no reason to believe Arkansas can stop them even a little. They've given up 36, 34, 31 and 48 points in their last 4 games and none of those offenses were as proficient as the Tigers. Their non-con includes victories against Troy, North Texas, Chattanooga and FIU. There's no other way to say it; The Hogs are frauds and they have no business in this game.

A lot of teams in the past have felt wronged by the BCS and then come out to lay an egg in their bowl game. That's the only way the Tigers lose this game. Assuming Gary Pinkel can outcoach an interim and an ill prepared Bobby Petrino.... Assuming Chase Daniel can throw more TDs than picks...Assuming Tony Temple and the rest of the Tigers don't continually put it on the turf... I don't see this game being in doubt in the second half.

The Big 12 North has been doubted all year long while the entire country goes on and on about the strength of the SEC....it's time for the Tigers to prove them wrong. Four years in a row now the Big 12 has sent a representative to the Cotton Bowl to battle the SEC, four in a row have come back losers, this year that changes...

Mizzou 51, Arkansas 31