Some facts about the 2009 Missouri Tigers:
FOUNDED: 1839
ENROLLMENT: 28,000
LOCATED: Columbia, Mo.
COACH: Gary Pinkel, eight seasons at Missouri, 18 seasons overall
2007 RECORD: 10-4, (5-3, 1st Big 12 North)
LAST BOWL: 2009 Alamo Bowl, beat Northwestern 30-23 in OT
STADIUM: Faurot Field (68,349)
RETURNING STARTERS: 9 (5 offense, 4 defense)
KEY PLAYERS: LB Sean Weatherspoon, RB Derrick Washington, DL Jacquies Smith, DL Jaron Baston, DB Carl Gettis.
KEY RECRUITS: DT Sheldon Richardson, QB Blaine Dalton, RB Kendial Lawrence, DB T.J. Moe.
KEY DEPARTURES: WR-KR Jeremy Maclin, QB Chase Daniel, TE Chase Coffman, DL Ziggy Hood, OL Colin Brown.
COACHSPEAK: “Right now Blaine Gabbert is clearly No. 1. We’ll see how that goes. Anytime you have a transition quarterback, everybody sits back and goes ‘Wow, what’s going to happen?’ Hopefully, we can replace him with a high-level guy.”—Pinkel on the departure of QB Chase Daniel.
2009 SCHEDULE:
Sept. 5— Illinois in St. Louis
Sept. 12—Bowling Green
Sept. 19—Furman
Sept. 25—at Nevada-Reno
Oct. 8—Nebraska
Oct. 17—at Oklahoma State
Oct. 24—Texas
Oct. 31—at Colorado
Nov. 7—Baylor
Nov. 21—Iowa State
Nov. 28—Kansas in Kansas City
