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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Anybody that's involved in a rivalry game like this, they can say they treat it like any other ballgame, but you don't. They'll run faster, they'll jump higher, and they'll make plays in that ballgame that they wouldn't make in any other ballgame."
Former Mizzou basketball coach Norm Steward
FACT OF THE DAY
There are two "official" records for the football rivalry, with each side claiming a different total, both in favor of Mizzou.
Missouri: 57-54-9
Kansas: 56-55-9
www.sports-reference.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Why wasn't the Border War football game played in 1918?
A: The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic — www.columbiatribune.com
THE MORNING BREW Season seems empty without Border Showdown rivalry
For the first time since 1918 and the second time since the rivalry's conception in 1891, the Kansas and Missouri football teams did not play a against each other.
The oldest college sports rivalry west of the Mississippi River, the Border Showdown drew the attention of both school's fan bases and was an important game on the schedule every year.
Missouri's move to the SEC at the beginning of this year ended the rivalry. There are currently no scheduled games between the two teams in the future.
After watching an incredible Saturday of college football filled with exciting matchups such as the Bedlam game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and Notre Dame against USC, I realized that there was one thing missing: the Border Showdown. As I was watching Johnny Football and Texas A&M take it to Missouri, I began to wonder how the Jayhawks would matchup against the boys from Missouri this year.
Both Missouri and Kansas have had seasons that have showed promise and disappointment. The Tigers took Florida down to the wire, losing 14-7 in Gainesville, Fla. The Jayhawks looked like Big 12 contenders, or something close to them, during the first half of the Kansas State game. Kansas also played Big 12 opponents Texas Christian, Oklahoma State, Texas and
some more insightful than others. After a couple Twitter arguments/conversations and the subsequent loss of at least five followers, I had garnered a decent amount of information to make a general prediction for the game.
Texas Tech very close as well.
At the same time, each team has had its moments looking like "The Replacements." With the inconsistency both teams showed, who wins the game is the team that shows up.
If I were a betting man, I'd take Missouri straight up. They've simply found a way to win more football games than Kansas this year. But rivalry games aren't that simple. With the history these two teams have, any fan knows that anything can happen. There's a reason football games aren't played on paper
- see Kansas State vs. Baylor two weekends ago. Kansas certainly has the guns to go against Missouri and win, seeing as Missouri is in the bottom half of most major offensive and defensive categories this year.
It would have been entertaining to see how this year's matchup would have played out. Unfortunately, we're left playing "what if" games thinking about it. The money driven move to the SEC by Missouri derailed one of the best rivalries in all of sports. With Missouri's hoops team beginning to rise to national
prominence, and the definite improvement of KU football, the rivalry would be heading towards a golden age. Instead, fans miss out on a series of great games in various sports each year, and writers like me are left somber over our laptops thinking about what could have been.
Edited by Andrew Ruszczyk
This week in athletics
Tuesday No events scheduled
Wednesday
Women's Basketball
Grambling State
7:00 p.m.
Lawrence
Thursday No events scheduled
Friday
Volleyball Cleveland State 6:30 p.m. Lawrence
Men's Basketball
Oregon State
7:00 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Saturday
Football
West Virginia
1:30 p.m.
Morgantown, W. Va.
Sunday
FOOTALL
Women's Basketball
Minnesota
2:00 p.m.
Lawrence
Monday
Williams Education Fund Kansas City Roundtball Luncheon 11:30 a.m. Kansas City Downtown Marriott
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Judging by the results in 2012, the league is stronger than ever.
Season proves Big 12 is still strong despite losing teams
The health of the Big 12 has been a topic of debate since Nebraska and Colorado kicked off a fourteam exodus a few years back.
No Big 12 team was able to survive through Thanksgiving with a shot at the national title. But nine of the 10 teams, including newcomers West Virginia and TCU, are already bowl eligible.
The league's 90 percent success rate is by far the best in the country — and that's with an extra league
game for each school and a week left to play.
No. 7 Kansas State can win the league title with a victory at No. 23 Texas on Saturday, while No. 12 Oklahoma needs a victory by the Longhorns and to beat TCU to win the Big 12.
Everyone except Kansas will be playing beyond this weekend.
"I would say it's probably as strong and there's probably as much parity as I've seen," said Kansas State coach Bill Synder, who has coached in the Big 12 for all but three years of its existence. "You've seen the conference kind of fall out
of the national spotlight gradually over the season. But at the end of the day, it's because you're playing such tremendously talented football teams week in and week out. Having a nine-game schedule like that is quite difficult."
Perhaps the biggest reason why the league is so deep is because West Virginia and TCU have fit seamlessly into the league in place of Missouri and No. 10 Texas A&M, now in the SEC.
The Mountaineers and Horned Frogs have discovered that things are a lot tougher in the Big 12 than their old homes.
West Virginia won the Big East's BCS berth in its final season there and hung 70 points on Clemson in winning the Orange Bowl. But after a 5-0 start in 2012, the depth of the Big 12 began taking a toll. West Virginia (6-5, 3-5) needed a late TD to beat Iowa State 31-24 and simply reach bowl eligibility.
"It's a tough league, and each and every week the same thing happens. It doesn't matter who's playing who. It's going to be a battle." West Virginia coach Dana Holgersen said.
TCU went unbeaten in its final season in the Mountain West in 2011. The Horned Frogs have
taken their lumps in the Big 12, but they're coming off their biggest win yet as a member of the league.
TCU (7-4-4-4) fell flat in its home opener, losing 37-23 to Iowa State in quarterback Trevone Boykin's debut. The Horned Frogs also dropped a wild, triple-overtime affair to Texas Tech, 56-53, and lost to Kansas State at home.
But the Frogs, in place of A&M as Texas's Thanksgiving night opponent, thumped the Longhorns 20-13 for their first win over a ranked opponent this season.
"The thing that everybody said, wed hear on the recruiting trail before we joined the Big 12 was, 'Well, they win ballgames. But they don't play good competition every week. And now, we've been in every ballgame and we've won our share of ballgames," TCU coach Gary Patterson said. "We've got to raise our level of athletic ability at a lot of positions. But I think our kids play hard."
Texas Tech will also return to the postseason after a brief dip in 2011. Despite losing four of their final five regular season games, the Red Raiders are 7-5 after winning just five games last season.
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