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COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Saturday鈥檚 game between Missouri and Texas A&M is the rare matchup between Southeastern Conference-designated annual opponents in which neither fanbase has much trash to talk.

Saturday鈥檚 11 a.m. kickoff between the Tigers and Aggies marks the third year in a row they鈥檝e played each other, and they鈥檒l meet for the next three seasons as well after the SEC matched up its two 2012 additions from the Big 12 as annual opponents.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Missouri once again faces the unpleasant task of game-planning for Eli Drinkwitz鈥檚 favorite quarterback.

That鈥檚 a joke, or at least it鈥檚 a joke-able topic now for Drinkwitz.

A week after one of the biggest wins in Eli Drinwitz's tenure as coach, Mizzou stays home and faces another difficult test from a Texas A&M team that may be a bit better than it appears at first glance.

Mizzou (4-1 overall, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) routed then-No. 8 Florida on Saturday in Columbia, which moved the Tigers up to No. 14 in the latest Associated Press poll, the program's best ranking in two years.

Any person claiming they knew Missouri would dominate football games with the passing game this season absolutely qualifies as a pathological liar. Don鈥檛 trust that person. Don鈥檛 believe a word that rolls off their tongue.

Even the most hopeful and delusional Mizzou followers couldn鈥檛 foresee the transformation before the season began, but it鈥檚 clear now that the team goes as quarterback Austin Simmons goes. The past two games should鈥檝e solidified that in everyone鈥檚 mind.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� A transfer guard seeking the ability to play for Missouri men鈥檚 basketball this season has sued the NCAA in Boone County in an attempt to receive a fifth year of eligibility.

An attorney representing C.J. Gunn, who played four seasons of collegiate basketball at Indiana and DePaul, filed his lawsuit Tuesday. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, at which point a judge is expected to consider whether to award Gunn a temporary restraining order that would make him eligible to play.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� What a difference a week can make for the feeling around a college football team. There's much more positivity now around the Missouri Tigers after beating Florida than there was in the wake of the Mississippi State defeat.

This week's batch of reader questions tackle defensive injuries, Austin Simmons' play style and the growing chance of Ahmad Hardy missing the entire season.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� Johnnie "DJ" Jones, the Missouri freshman football player who has been hospitalized in Florida awaiting a heart transplant, received the transplant during a successful procedure Wednesday night.

Jones, 18, is recovering after the surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Mizzou coach Eli Drinkwitz on Thursday announced that the transplant procedure had taken place.聽

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� What if the identity of Missouri鈥檚 run game is no longer the outside zone?

For essentially all of Eli Drinkwitz鈥檚 tenure as the Tigers鈥� coach, the outside zone has been the MU offense鈥檚 schematic sustenance. It鈥檚 been one of the givens with the systems run here, whether called by Drinkwitz or someone else.

One wants to believe Mizzou鈥檚 receivers would鈥檝e visited their quarterback鈥檚 hometown even if he was from Miami, Missouri.

As it happens to be, Austin Simmons hails from Miami, Florida.

Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham caused a stir this summer by speaking out against transgender women participating in women's sports.

Now she seems to have expanded her message beyond sports 鈥� without saying a word.

COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥� If the saying that what goes around comes around applies to the Southeastern Conference, then the Missouri Tigers need to be on high alert this week.

Mizzou welcomed Florida to Columbia with humble pie on Saturday but is now at risk of being force-fed the same dish by Texas A&M this weekend.