Wow. The Cotton Bowl. How exciting.

I'm jumping up and down. Somewhere. Not here.

Here I'm sucked of all emotion.

Here I am with the same feeling I had at the end of last season.

If only LSU or USC or SOMEBODY somewhere had kept Mizzou from being ranked #1 or #2 or #3.

Then I would be happier now. Pleased with my Tigers rise to a New Years bowl. Maybe if I was able to make the short drive down to the Orange Bowl. I guess I still could, burning Jayhawks at the stake for some pregame entertainment.

We get to play an Arkansas team with nothing left to play for. The beat LSU. What else is there for them this year?

Last year my good friend hogfan and I would be going back and forth about how each other's team was about to get their butts kicked.

This year hogfan has stopped blogging, which came rather abruptly earlier this year. Makes me wonder.

Anyway.

I also find it ironic that this time last year I was posting very obnoxious musings on the Sun Bowl. Mizzou played in the Sun Bowl and I was NOT happy about it.

I live in Tampa and all I hear is how great it is for South Florida to be playing in the Sun Bowl. Woohoo, the Sun Bowl. Guess they don't remember being ranked #2.

The sorrow of being humiliated by OU twice in a year.

Not next year. Next year when we see them in the Big 12 Championship, because let's face it there's no one else better in the Big 12, next year we will beat them. We'll be better on defense. We'll be better on offense. 

Better on offense? Oh, yes.

Plus, next year we don't have to go to Norman. And playing OU once is better than playing them twice.

Mizzou has two tough games next year. Two. Illinois and Texas.

 We have no SOS next year, so we have to run the table. Lose those two and it's back to the goddamned Cotton Bowl.