Beau Pribula sees the irony in his pregame message.

“My main message to the team this week was to bounce back when we face adversity,” Pribula said. “And that was kind of a self-inflicted wound on my behalf. It was really me that put us in that situation.”

He has a point. The Missouri football quarterback’s first-quarter fumble, which Kansas picked and ran home, put all the momentum in the Jayhawks’ hands. KU scored 21 unanswered points, with that scoop-and-score touchdown at the heart of a gruesome mid-first quarter lull for the home team in the first Border War in 14 years.

But he also was part of another pregame message — one that defined a 42-31 win for Mizzou on Saturday over its bitter, centuries-old rival in a game that meant more to the people in Columbia than perhaps any oth

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