... history, the Missouri football program enters 2009 with an unsettling amount of uncertainty.

After posting a second straight season with 10 or more wins for the first time ever, and sending an unprecedented six players to the NFL, the Tigers now have to deal with the byproduct that comes with achieving landmark success.

Only Utah, USC, and Oklahoma have won more games than Missouri over the past two seasons, so it goes without saying that the task at hand for 2009 is sustaining that level of excellence, all the while dismissing the notions of the doubters who insist the Tigers' 22 victories over 2007-08 were the centerpiece of a passing fancy.