The season is getting close.

Missouri football players put their pads on Saturday and held their second scrimmage of the preseason. Most of the practice, other than the QBs, was live tackling, meaning it was as close to real football as we’ve seen all fall.

A select group of local beat writers and media members, including the Tribune, were invited to attend the scrimmage, which was technically also Tigers ’ 11th practice of preseason camp. It was not a traditional scrimmage, but instead a mixture of situational drills that pitted the ones, twos and threes from both offense and defense against one another. More: Go behind the scenes of a Missouri football scrimmage: QB race, OL updates

Both quarterbacks competing for the starting job, Beau Pribula and Sam Horn, led multiple red-zo

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