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Regular Season Grade Card

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For our season grade card, we added up the grades from each week at each position throughout the regular season. This is not a hindsight grade for the year. It’s a cumulative grade using the marks we handed out the day after each game.

At each position, we've given you the first half GPA, the second half GPA and the cumulative.

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Here is the grading scale:

A+ 4.33 points

A 4

A- 3.67

B+ 3.33 points

B 3

B- 2.67

C+ 2.33 points

C 2

C- 1.67

D+ 1.33 points

D 1

D- 0.67

F+ 0.33 points

F 0

F- -0.33

Offensive Grade Card
Position 1st half GPA 2nd half GPA Overall GPA

Quarterback

2.11

3.39

2.75

Running Back

2.44

3.17

2.81

Wide Receiver

1.88

3.39

2.64

Tight End

1.88

3.67

2.78

Offensive Line

2.11

3.28

2.70

REVIEW: The grades might look a little bit low, particularly at tight end and quarterback. But you have to remember the first half of the season still happened. Only QB, RB and offensive line had a grade point average of C or better at that point, and two of them barely reached that threshold. Every offensive position had at least one failing grade in the first six and wide receiver, tight end and offensive line had two.

In total, running back was Missouri's top offensive position by our grades, which was probably accurate. Tight end and quarterback were next and Missouri could have first-team all-league performers at both. Offensive line was right behind with the wide receivers following.

Cumulative Offensive GPA

First Half: 2.08

Second Half: 3.38

Overall: 2.74

Defensive Grade Card
Position 1st Half GPA 2nd Half GPA Overall GPA

Defensive Line

1.0

3.5

2.25

Linebacker

1.17

3.22

2.19

Secondary

0.67

2.67

1.67

REVIEW: The biggest swing between the two halves of the season was the defensive line. The Tigers went from a D to a solid B+/A- there. Linebacker made nearly as dramatic an improvement. And the secondary got much better, but was still clearly the weakness.

Overall, this works out as you would expect. In the first half of the season, Missouri's defense was a D-. In the second half it was a B. For the season, it was almost exactly middle of the road.

Cumulative Defensive GPA

1st Half: 0.95

2nd Half: 3.13

Overall: 2.01

Special Teams/Coaching Grade Card
Position 1st Half GPA 2nd Half GPA Overall GPA

Special Teams

1.17

3.22

2.20

Coaching

1.17

4.0

2.58

REVIEW: The special teams was dinged with our only F- grade of the year for the performance against South Carolina. The group was a D- or worse for three games in the first six and never better than a C. But in the second half, it got an A or a B in five of the six games.

Coaching was a drastic swing, but maybe not as drastic as we would have thought. The 1.17 GPA in the first half is actually higher than many would have given Barry Odom and his staff. But they earned an A in each of the season's last six games to bring the overall GPA up to a B- for the season.

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