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Byline: Bill Coats
COLUMBIA, Mo._With a hard-to-swallow 31-24 loss to third-ranked Oklahoma on Saturday night, Missouri added another notch to its ungainly streak of failures against top-10 football teams. The Tigers haven't turned the trick since upending No. 9 Mississippi State in 1981 -- some 43 such contests ago.
Mizzou also has dropped its last 17 games against all ranked teams, dating to a 51-50, double-overtime victory at No. 12 Oklahoma State in 1997.
But this was certainly no cakewalk for OU_and this certainly wasn't the Mizzou of old. The Sooners got a major scare from a determined Tigers crew that regrouped in a big way, forging a 24-23 fourth-quarter edge after falling behind 23-7 earlier ...