Missouri Tigers (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) The Tigers return many key pieces from a 12-2 team that finished fourth in the final AP poll. Mizzou should be a title contender again this season, at both the Big 12 and national levels, as long as QB Chase Daniel (4,306 passing yards, 33 TDs last season) remains healthy. Daniel, a Southlake Carroll graduate, is the Tigers’ emotional leader and a Heisman Trophy candidate. The defense returns ...
Illini and Tigers tangle in St. Louis (The Kansas City Star) In what may prove to be the best game of college football's opening weekend, the sixth-ranked Missouri Tigers of the Big 12 Conference and the 20th-ranked Illinois Fighting Illini of the Big Ten meet in St. Louis.
Tigers’ football opener will pit pair of state-ranked clubs (Waynesville Daily Guide) The Waynesville High School football team will celebrate the opening of the 2008 season by taking on a state-ranked foe. The defending Missouri Class 5 state champion Tigers, of the Ozark Conference, are tied for fifth in the Class 5 state poll.
Illini will have hands full with Missouri speedster (The State Journal-Register) CHAMPAIGN — For a scouting report on Missouri sophomore receiver-returner Jeremy Maclin, let’s go to Illinois junior cornerback Vontae Davis. Davis first met Maclin in the season opener a year ago, when Maclin’s career got off to a fast start with two touchdowns in the Tigers’ 40-34 victory. By season’s end, Maclin’s 2,776 all-purpose yards set an NCAA record for a freshman and stood ...
Maclin, Daniel form dynamic duo for Missouri (Daily Illini) COLUMBIA, Mo. - This time last year, Jeremy Maclin was a backup wide receiver at Missouri. Highly touted, definitely, but still a redshirt freshman coming off major knee surgery. That was about the last time the Tigers' do-it-all threat wasn't a major headache for defensive coordinators.
Future Missouri, Illinois QBs go head-to-head on ESPN (USA Today) After Missouri and Illinois face off Saturday, their QBs of the future go head-to-head at Sunday in a nationally televised game.
Confident air is apparent for Chase Daniel, Missouri Tigers (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) By MIKE JONES The long bus ride out of Oklahoma's Memorial Stadium back to the airport in Oklahoma City after the Sooners' 41-31 comeback victory last October remains fresh in quarterback Chase Daniel's mind. "I will remember this all my life," he said. "There was no panic, no holding their heads down for anyone on the team. And that being Missouri, you're not used to seeing that. "Once I saw ...
Illini and Tigers tangle in St. Louis (CBS 47 Jacksonville) In what may prove to be the best game of college football's opening weekend, the sixth-ranked Missouri Tigers of the Big 12 Conference and the 20th-ranked Illinois Fighting Illini of...
Maclin, Daniel form dynamic duo for Tigers (WQAD Moline) COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - This time last year, Jeremy Maclin was a backup wide receiver at Missouri, a redshirt freshman coming off major knee surgery. That was about the last time the Tigers' do-it-all threat wasn't a major headache for defensive coordinators.
Missouri releases basketball schedule (The Kansas City Star) COLUMBIA | Trying to get back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2003 season, Missouri men’s basketball will play a 2008 schedule that includes at least 10 teams that made the tournament last season.
