The drought of bowl wins continued as the Missouri Tigers, who lost 27-17 in the Gasparilla Bowl to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, haven’t won a bowl game since 2014.
With the Tigers now entering the offseason and looking forward to the 2023 season, there is reason to be optimistic, but they need to improve in many areas if they want to compete in the SEC next season.
Perhaps most notably, rather than one side of the ball playing well and the other not playing well, as we saw against Wake Forest, we must find the ability to play complementary football. must.
Against Wake Forest, the Tigers attacked and played well. Yes, they could have scored more, but despite going 1-for-4 on fourth down, they managed to score 17 points for 344 total yards of offense.
However, the defense allowed 27 points for 386 total yards, surpassing the season average of holding opponents to 25 points on 337.1 offensive yards per game.
Simply put, it’s not common for a team to win many games playing only one side of the ball well. fans have reason to be optimistic about moving forward.
However, if they can’t do both consistently in the same game, the Tigers remain a middling SEC team that can’t quite get over the hump.
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