The Missouri Tigers hit two birds with one stone Saturday night, as they not only defeated an SEC rival in the win over the Florida Gators at home but also clinched bowl eligibility with that victory. But the cherry on top for Mizzou was not even the completed 2-point conversion by the Tigers in overtime that gave them the win, but the troll job head coach Eli Drinkwitz pulled off in the postgame presser.
MIC DROP from #Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz after beating Florida in OT! 😂
"May the force be with you." pic.twitter.com/cVw9CcvXK0
— Andrew Kauffman (@A_Kauff) November 21, 2021
If you need further context on this, here's Dave Matter of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reminding everyone what forced Drinkwitz to do all that in the presser.
Article Continues BelowIn case you forgot, here's how Dan Mullen showed up for last year's Mizzou postgame presser pic.twitter.com/0UD9I3Zy45
— Dave Matter (@Dave_Matter) November 21, 2021
Missouri entered Saturday's game coming off a 31-29 home win over the South Carolina Gamecocks, which followed the Tigers' devastating 43-6 loss in Athens to the Georgia Bulldogs. Although they aren't going to finish the season anywhere near the top of the SEC East division, the Tigers can take heart from the fact that they have just avenged their 2020 loss to Florida in Gainesville. At the same time, it must feel so sweet for Drinkwitz to have managed to steer Missouri into its second bowl-eligibility season in just two years as head coach of the program.
Missouri rounds out its regular-season schedule next Saturday with a road game against the Arkansas Razorbacks.