Missouri Trounces Arkansas in Season Finale

to most rational people, there really wasn’t a good reason to spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving at Razorback Stadium to watch Arkansas finish a lost season on a whimper.

but that’s exactly what happened,Missouri picked up 322 of its 347 yards on the ground and trounced the Razorbacks 31-17 in the season finale.

Missouri was 4.5 point favorites coming into the game. Arkansas’ bowl hopes left a month ago, the chances at a good season long before that. The weather sat in the high 40s at kickoff with wind gusting over 15 miles an hour. By nightfall the weather was even worse.

Even with all the disastrous circumstances and a football team that hadn’t won in 84 days, 61,508 tickets were sold. There was plenty of black and gold mixed in with the red.

Mizzou fans definitely played their part in inflating the numbers, but for the ultimate Razorback faithful that still showed up when Arkansas had nothing to play for, the 30 seniors couldn’t be more grateful.

“For the fans to come out in that weather,especially for the season that we’ve had,that’s how you know,” senior defensive tackle Cam ball said. “This whole state of Arkansas, they just came together.

“It was so surreal to just see how many people actually came out and to support us thru it all and us not