The Sixth Man's Game of the Week--September 9, 2006

For his game of the week, the Sixth Man is going with Missouri at home -9 1/2 against Ole Miss. Mississippi's QB, Schaeffer, the transfer from Tennessee, is a shifty, scrambling QB that can make plays with his feet but doesn't really make them with his arm. He reminds one a bit of former Missouri QB, Brad Smith. However, Schaeffer is no Brad Smith, instead he is more of a Brad Smith "lite" and the majority of these Missouri players practiced against the real Brad Smith for two years. Schaeffer only had 97 yards passing against Memphis last week and 86 of them went to one guy, McCluster. MU will shut down one guy. Also, Ole Miss gave up 374 yards at home to Memphis last week and MU's well balanced offense racked up yards by the truckload in their rout. MU has a much better offense than Memphis and should have no problem gaining more than 450 yards of total offense. One more factor is that Gary Pinkel, Missouri's head coach, no matter how questionable he is at times, will not let his team forget last years loss to New Mexico at home in an eerily similar situation. That game will be used as motivation and a reminder that if they let up, any team can beat them at home. Bottom line is that Missouri is a veteran ballclub and Ole Miss is too young to win in Columbia and too young to even make it close...Missouri 31, Ole Miss 13.

***The Sixth Man's Game of the Week***
MISSOURI -9 1/2 (**)