MU Football

Forget the officially licensed apparel — for this year’s Border Showdown, T-shirt makers supporting both schools are pulling out all the rhetorical ammo they can

With pundits weighing numerous hypothetical scenarios, one thing is certain: Missouri’s chance to win the national title will end if Kansas wins Saturday. But what about West Virginia, MU’s latest rival in the Bowl Championship Series?

In the past, the Border Showdown has not carried Big 12 Conference and national championship implications. But that will be on the line when the No. 3 Missouri and No. 2 Kansas football teams meet on Saturday in Kansas City.

Next Saturday’s ‘Game of the Century’ between No. 3 Kansas and No. 5 Missouri begins a three-team playoff with a national-title berth at stake.

Jeremy Maclin’s touchdown return on a Kansas State kickoff was the Tigers first since 1982.

Fans are turning to the Web in a last-ditch effort to score tickets.

The ESPN The Magazine Gridiron Blowout 2007 stopped in Manhattan, Kan., on Saturday, allowing tailgaters a chance to see the coveted award.

Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel and teammate Martin Rucker, both candidates for prestigious post-season awards, now have their own web sites.

When the No. 2 Oregon football team fell Thursday night at Arizona, Missouri, No. 5 in the BCS, cleared another obstacle in the hunt for a national title.

With undefeated Kansas looming for the Missouri football team, what it has to accomplish on Saturday at Kansas State goes unspoken.

Not many Heisman voters outside the Midwest know much about Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel

During the week leading up to the Texas A&M game, teammates and coaches supported Missouri running back Tony Temple as he dealt with his grandma’s death to cancer.

After an injury to Pig Brown, his friend and teammate William Moore is succeeding at being the same emotional and physical prescence as Brown.

If the undefeated Jayhawks football team wins its final three games — including against the Tigers Nov. 24 — it will probably will play in the BCS National Championship Game.

Parkway West High School quarterback Blaine Gabbert, ranked third in a recruiting Web site’s 2008 class, told MU coach Gary Pinkel after Saturday’s victory over Texas A&M that he’d join the Tigers.

MU could earn an invitation to a BCS bowl game by winning against Kansas State, Kansas, and in the Big 12 Championship game. The invitation would be the first for the Tigers since the Bowl Championship Seriesbegan.

MU quarterback Chase Daniel earned his place as a legitimate Heisman candidate after leading the Tigers to their ninth win of the season Saturday against Texas A&M.

The win gives the Tigers, who were up by just five points heading into the fourth quarter, a fifth Big 12 Conference win for the first time under Gary Pinkel.

After completing one of his best games for Missouri, senior running back Tony Temple was quickly in a car traveling to Kansas City for his grandmother’s funeral.