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Missouri treated Cotton Bowl win vs. Ohio State like a championship. Is a Playoff bid next?

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Missouri treated Cotton Bowl win vs. Ohio State like a championship. Is a Playoff bid next?

ARLINGTON, Texas — Don’t tell Missouri that New Year’s Six games outside the College Football Playoff don’t matter. If you watched the No. 9 Tigers celebrate their 14-3 Cotton Bowl win against No. 7 Ohio State, it might as well have been a championship.Players made snow angels in the confetti. Every staff member got a photo with someone. Nobody wanted to leave the field. Mizzou fans, who sold out their 13,000 ticket allotment in less than 18 hours, packed in more than half of the 70,000 people in AT&T Stadium. It was the Tigers’ biggest bowl win since the Cotton Bowl to cap a top-five season a decade ago. An 11th win. A reason to celebrate a breakthrough season and an upward trajectory.“The way (the Cotton Bowl) treated us, it felt like the Super Bowl,” head coach Eli Drinkwitz said. ...

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