2007 was a noteworthy year for the Texas Bowl, as it was the only year a team from Texas has participated in this Houston classic with a deep history spanning four years. That year, TCU defeated Houston 20-13 in the only game (of the three so far) that wasn’t a complete blowout. So yeah, Texas Bowl. Good times. Let’s meet the 2009 participants.

Missouri

The Missouri Tigers were expected to suck hard after losing Chase Daniel, Jeremy Maclin, and pretty much everybody except Derrick Washington from the 2008 offense. I took Illinois in week 1 of my pick’em league and was shocked as Missouri not only won the game, but did so a lot more comfortably than any of Daniel’s squads did (2009 ended up being a surprising year for both of those teams, in very different ways). Read the rest of this entry →