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3 things Alabama football fans need to know about Missouri before Saturday
Alabama football has not seen this version of Missouri football.
In the Crimson Tide’s last meeting against the Tigers, a 38-19 win in Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 26, 2020, Missouri was a perennial .500 squad, one that was in the first season under head coach Eli Drinkwitz.
Four seasons later, Missouri is a contender near the top of the SEC, responding to an 11-win 2023 campaign which included a Cotton Bowl win against Ohio State with six wins in their first seven games of 2024, including a comeback win against Auburn Saturday afternoon.
No. 15 Alabama will face No. 17 Missouri at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The game will be broadcast on ABC.
Here are three things to know about the Tigers before their trip to Tuscaloosa Saturday.
Missouri faced injury struggles in Auburn win Saturday
For much of Missouri’s comeback win against Auburn Saturday, the Tigers were short handed.
Quarterback Brady Cook left Missouri’s 21-17 win after the opening series with an ankle injury, one that forced him to have a mid-game MRI done at a local hospital. After Drew Pyne took the reins of the offense at quarterback, Cook returned late in the third quarter and led two fourth-quarter touchdown drives to beat the Tigers.
Missouri was also without starting running back Nate Noel for much of Saturday with a foot injury. Noel, the sixth-ranked rusher in the SEC after transferring from Appalachian State, was limited to six carries for 32 yards.
Cook, Noel and the Missouri offense average 31.7 points and 422.4 yards per game.
Missouri has one of the best pass defenses in the SEC
Missouri has one of the better pass defenses in the SEC.
Led by defensive back Daylan Carnell and cornerback Dreyden Norwood, the Tigers have allowed 157.6 passing yards per game, second best in the SEC behind Texas. Missouri has allowed six passing touchdowns in seven games, but has also generated five interceptions.
Missouri has allowed the second-least number of pass attempts in the SEC through seven games, with opponents averaging over 23 attempts per game. Much of that has to do with a schedule that includes Buffalo, Vanderbilt, Boston College,Texas A&M and Massachusetts: the best of which is ranked No. 91 nationally in passing offense.
Jalen Milroe and the Crimson Tide have the No. 37 passing offense nationally, averaging 259.7 passing yards per game.
Alabama football gets first look at Missouri WR Luther Burden
With Saturday being Missouri’s first meeting with the Crimson Tide since 2020, the Crimson Tide will soon be introduced to Luther Burden, the former five-star who has generated the reputation as one of the best wide receivers in the SEC.
A 5-foot-11, 205-pound wide receiver, Burden was the No. 3 player overall in the 2022 recruiting class behind Jackson State-turned-Colorado defensive back/wide receiver Travis Hunter and Texas A&M-turned-Ole Miss defensive lineman Walter Nolen. And in 2023, Burden showed why, finishing with 1,212 receiving yards and nine touchdowns.
Through seven games, Burden has 447 receiving yards and six total touchdowns. But Burden does not have a touchdown catch since Sept. 21 against Vanderbilt.
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Mizzou is a 22.5-point favorite over Alabama State. The Tigers step back onto its home floor looking to reset after road losses to Notre Dame and Kansas. Alabama State has struggled mightily against high-major opponents.
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What our Post expert thinks about Missouri vs. Alabama State
Alabama State has already dropped its two power-conference tests by an average of 32.5 points, and its defensive profile hasn’t suggested much resistance.
The Hornets bring two of the SWAC’s top scorers in Asjon Anderson and Micah Simpson, they are giving up 81.4 points per game and allowing opponents to shoot 45.3 percent from the floor.
Missouri’s rebounding edge should matter — the Tigers pull nearly 40 boards per game while Alabama State is giving up 37.4 a night and just surrendered 18 offensive rebounds to UT Martin.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Road construction on Springfield’s northside is affecting access to the Southwest Missouri Humane Society.
MoDOT is realigning the intersection of Norton and Melville Road as part of the I-44 overpass project. The bridge work and intersection project are both impacting the animal shelter.
The shelter sits on Norton Road just west of where the work is happening. Visitors can only reach the shelter by taking the long way up West Bypass to Westgate Avenue, then onto Norton Road.
MoDOT says the intersection at Norton and Melville is supposed to be closed for two weeks. The bridge project, as a whole, is supposed to be completed by the end of the year.
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Organizers working to turn back Missouri’s congressional redistricting map spoke Tuesday about collecting signatures to put the effort to a vote by citizens.
People Not Politicians submitted more than 300,000 signatures Tuesday to the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office. The signatures hope to force a statewide vote on redistricting approved earlier this year by Missouri politicians.
KSHB 41 anchor Caitlin Knute spoke with one of the volunteers behind the effort.
Volunteer describes collecting signatures for petition on Missouri redistricting
“I think people in rural areas want to follow the Constitution, and I think it was pretty clear this was not done within the parameters of the Constitution,” volunteer Elizabeth Franklin said.
Redistricting typically occurs after a census every 10 years, but that wasn’t the case this year in Missouri. Critics on both sides of the aisle note that it splits Kansas City into three districts, lumping parts of the city in with much more rural areas.
A spokesperson for the Missouri Secretary of State’s office confirmed receipt of 691 boxes of signatures.
“The elections division will proceed with scanning, counting and sorting the sheets for verification by local election authorities,” the spokesperson said.
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