WAG - It's Practically Official!
Mizzou is going to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana.
If we accept our current birth. Some of the teams ranked higher are still wresting about where they'll end up. This will probably continue until the end of the Big 12 Championship Game to be held this Saturday. Odds are MU won't move, but I don't think they want to take their chances just in case a wild hand is dealt.
Regardless, of where we end up this is the first bowl appearance for MU since the 1998 Insight.com bowl.
We were ranked 6th overall in the Big 12 behind Nebraska (Alamo Bowl), Oklahoma State (Holiday Bowl), Kansas State (Cotton Bowl), Texas (Rose Bowl), and top ranked Oklahoma (the championship Sugar Bowl).
The Tigers will probably be matched up against the Arkansas Razorbacks, if they accept this game as well.
Kick off is set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 31.
New Years will probably be spent on a bus due to traffic.
That won’t be the first time (see 1999 Cotton Bowl Marching Band trip [and try not to get Prince’s 1999 stuck in your head]), but at least I should be able to see the whole game… as long as funding comes from the athletic department.
'Heres_hoping'
