you're Kansas and Missouri, and you don't know when you'll next get the chance to play in a game of this magnitude, it's understandable.

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Sas heads for the border (war).

It wasn't just the fans that were treating this like the unique event that it was, Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel was right there with them. If it were a game of poker, Pinkel was all in all night. From the perspective of a neutral observer, it was fantastic.

In the first quarter alone, Pinkel tried a fake field goal (it failed) and went for it on fourth and goal from the one (it worked). It was the biggest game of his career, and he was treating it like a game of Madden with his buddies. Going Big approves.

The one downside ofIn between watching Arkansas upset LSU and attending the Mizzou Pep Rally, Matt and I strapped in at the famous Arthur Bryant's to see whether their ribs lived up to the hype, or could even match what we got at Jack Stacks.

We walked into Arthur Bryant's just as the Arkansas-LSU game was ending. Everyone in the place was wearing either KU or Mizzou gear, and both sets of fans went nuts when LSU finally lost in triple overtime. I was happy because I like seeing underdogs win, plus I felt that LSU had been playing with fire all season long and it was about time they got burned.

The KU and Mizzou faithful were happy because they thought that it opened the door for either Kansas or Misssouri to