Week 2 delivered the kind of college football mess that keeps people glued to their phones all weekend, and Kansas-Missouri sat right at the center of it.
Kansas’ pregame hype video before the Mizzou game set the tone immediately, leaning hard into the rivalry with a “we are good, you are bad” message and a throwback to the Civil War differences. The reaction didn’t stop at the screen. Missouri’s coaches and players clearly took issue with it, and things got heated after the game.
Fans flipping off players and players flipping off fans is nothing new, but the Missouri players still came off looking bad in the moment. Even then, the cameras only showed one angle of what was happening.
Then Eli Drinkwitz took the whole thing to another level. After the game, he jumped on X and started trolling KU and its fans.
One post was a direct reaction to Jack Settleman saying they were going to tear down the goalposts if they won. Drinkwitz wrote, “I thought @jacksettleman & @Melvingordon25 were taking the goalpost!?!?
@snapbacksports guess nobody gonna help them!?!?” and followed it with another jab: “Hey Jack!?
How’d that hype video end!? Cause I’d didn’t see yall take the goalpost!?
Was that supposed to happen?? #MIZ #WINNERSWIN”
He wasn’t finished there. Another clip showed Drinkwitz saying, “I gotta make sure we don’t have anything stupid happen here,” before the camera cut to Mizzou players banging on a KU drum. Drinkwitz then yelled, “GO GET THAT CRAP CLEARED UP!”
There was also a tense scene after the game that looked close to turning into a major brawl between KU and MU players. One clip showed Missouri players holding the state flag at midfield while coaches tried to separate everyone and get players back to the locker room before things escalated further. Another look at the scrum showed a drum with an MU logo on one side and a KU logo on the other.
Drinkwitz also addressed the rivalry directly afterward. He said, “I was embarrassed for them (Kansas), that's why I tried to embarrass them at the end.” He added, “This is a football game, nothing bigger than that.”
The final touchdown in the game came on fourth down, and Missouri cashed in. That score helped seal the win and triggered all the postgame chaos.
Not everyone was thrilled with how Missouri handled itself, and at least one Missouri media personality was unhappy with Drinkwitz and his players. But the whole thing also fit the personality of a rivalry game that already had plenty of fuel before kickoff.
Elsewhere, the weekend had its own strange moments. There was a neat tradition in one game that stood out, even if the matchup itself was mostly boring.
Texas, meanwhile, came through with a comeback win over Ohio State, scoring a touchdown with under a minute left. Ohio State, in this view, blew it.
Arch Manning was described as just okay.
In Manhattan, a lightning delay during the K-State/Washington State game led to a bizarre scene when a young Washington State fan ran onto the field. He was eventually caught.
The biggest upset of the day came in Stillwater, where unranked Oklahoma State beat No. 3 Oregon 39-31.
The celebration was immediate, though the athletic department line about not condoning taking down the goalposts drew pushback. The idea that schools can pay quarterbacks five million dollars a year but can’t replace goalposts after a huge win didn’t sit right, and the expected Big 12 fine of $50,000 for storming the field was called ridiculous.
There was also a mention of Michigan’s win over Oklahoma, which helped the wallet as much as anything else.
And yes, the week ended with a request for feedback on the format, with the promise to keep it going if there was enough interest.
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