COLUMBIA, Mo. — The vibes could’ve been warmer and fuzzier than they were Tuesday around the Missouri football facility.

The No. 25 Tigers are ranked once again after starting the 2025 season outside The Associated Press Top 25. They’re 2-0, fresh off a double-digit win over archrival Kansas. Quarterback Beau Pribula and left guard Dominick Giudice both earned national award recognitions for their performances in Week 2. And Mizzou is favored to win its next game, 3 p.m. Saturday vs. Louisiana, by upwards of four touchdowns.

Yet MU coach Eli Drinkwitz came off as unsatisfied — even dissatisfied — with all of it during his weekly news conference.

Some of that was perhaps due to the first question he received coming from a student reporter who asked him about his self-professed dorkiness,

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