Mizzou. Rah?

Missouri actually won a big game. Missouri is actually No. 1 in the country and is the most obvious National Championship contender in the country. Except as far as I can tell, no one expects them to beat Oklahoma.

They opened as an underdog in Vegas. And as this post at the Washington Post's Sports Bog point out, the odds makers say the Tigers are the sixth-best team in the country. (I didn't know how he picked those rankings, so I went through the archives - turns out a firm's oddsmakers actually do conduct a poll out in Vegas.) They also say Oklahoma is the third-best.

I give the Sooners two advantages: 1) they already beat Missouri, although it was at home and the game was competitive; 2) as I stated last week, I don't trust Missouri's sports teams in any context. Actually, I'd be fairly confident in the matchup against West Virginia, so the Tigers might wait until then to dash their fan-base's hopes.