Mizzou grad student here... Stay away from this game. Our team is so hot and cold, it's a crapshoot on who will show up. I'll be playing Mizzou ML because we need the win and our best game was this last week vs Texas A&M, but I would not be surprised at all if Tennessee takes us down 27-14. Our D is great though. Super underrated. Play the Under if anything.
Me and my friend have had this discussion about Mizzou so much. He is so optimistic and keeps saying we can go to the playoff, I think there's no way. We are #19 right now (AP, not CFP poll), win vs Tennessee might move us up about 2 spots, win against Arkansas another 2 spots. That's #15 heading into the SEC Champ game. MAYBE a bunch of teams ahead of us lose but there's no way we are higher than #12.
So say we do get there, #12, and somehow beat Bama or whoever it is in the SEC Championship with us. This is already a long shot, but if we do beat them, I have no idea what will happen. We can't leapfrog all those teams (TCU/Baylor, Ohio State, Mich State, Georgia, Ole Miss, etc.) and get in. On the other hand, to put in Bama who just got beat by Missouri in, over Missouri, it's going to be crazy.
What would be right in my eyes? Bama still goes, Mizzou stays out. They will have better wins and better schedule than us overall.
But good God, think of ESPN and the sporting world if Mizzou wins the SEC Champ (which honestly isn't out of the realm of possibility... we win our next 3 games. Not impossible). The whole football playoff and SEC team rankings are just thrown everywhere. I hope for it just because it's going to be amazing and hilarious to watch. No matter what happens in this scenario, 0, 1, 2 SEC teams make it, the nation is going to be furious, all because of Mizzou