... I could have better spent my Saturday afternoon.

It was the perfect late spring, er, I mean early autumn, day. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. Faurot Field was soaked in mid-afternoon sunshine. Tailgaters littered every crevice of the Missouri campus.

And the unseasonably beautiful conditions in Columbia had more than 65,000 at Memorial Stadium feeling it.

The setting for my first game since leaving MU as a graduate some seven years ago couldn't be beat.

The mood seemed so jovial and carefree. And when kickoff between Missouri and the hapless Baylor Bears commenced shortly after 1 p.m., an easy Tigers win seemed all but imminent.

Nearly four hours, infinite official reviews, and an early November sunburn later...

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