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Don’t call the coroner on Mizzou’s season just yet.
Missouri football starting quarterback Brady Cook’s status for the Tigers’ next game still seems to be in the arena of reasonable doubt, but the QB’s season, per his head coach, is not.
MU coach Eli Drinkwitz provided an update on Cook’s health during the SEC Football Coaches Teleconference on Wednesday, saying he “absolutely” expects Cook to return and play again this year. But Drinkwitz stopped short of providing any updates for the quarterback’s participation against Oklahoma, citing keeping a “competitive advantage.”
The team is staying quiet on Cook’s status for the Sooners after the quarterback sustained an injury to his throwing hand/wrist — a second availability-altering affliction in as many games — that kept the three-year starter out of most of MU’s shutout loss at Alabama on Saturday.
The cards hardly fell in Cook’s favor through October. Leading up to the Tuscaloosa trip, a high-ankle sprain put his participation in peril up until the coin toss. Then, in the second quarter, he left the field. Cook went for an X-ray in Alabama’s facilities. He returned to the sideline without a helmet.
Mizzou never looked the same.
Will it look like itself any time in November?
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Missouri, after hosting OU, travels to a plucky South Carolina and a dismal Mississippi State before returning home for its regular-season finale against Arkansas.
The College Football Playoff is all but a lost cause. Mizzou, ranked at No. 23 in the latest coaches poll and No. 25 in the AP poll, has two 30+-point blowouts in the two road contests that could have provided a résumé…
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Author : Columbia Daily Tribune
Publish date : 2024-10-30 22:49:04
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