COLUMBIA, Mo. — When Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing picked the turf out of his facemask following the safety that punctuated Missouri’s iconic 2007 win over the Jayhawks, present-day MU wideout Donovan Olugbode was not yet than 5 months old.
He wasn’t even 5 years old for the last Border War meeting in 2011.
Safety Jalen Catalon and right tackle Keagen Trost, Mizzou’s oldest players, were 6 years old for that 2007 showdown and 10 for the last game between the Tigers and Jayhawks.
Ten current Mizzou players weren’t even alive the last time the two rivals met in Columbia, during the 2006 season.
Missouri and Kansas haven’t played each other in nearly 14 years. For the 18- to 24-year-olds on the MU roster — and all of those enrolled at the University of Missouri as undergraduate students