Missouri needs to rebound and it needs to start trending upward quickly if it wants to still be considered a playoff team. The Tigers got lucky last week that there was a lot of other chaos around college football to dull the national sting of the beatdown they got from Texas A&M, but they did drop 12 spots in the AP poll to 21. Umass (1-5) enters having lost its past two games and with only a comeback win against Central Connecticut State to keep the ‘W’ column in its record from being a 0.