No. 4 Missouri thwarts Kansas' perfect season, closes in on BCS title-game spot

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Chase Daniel and his Missouri teammates will have almost no time at all to savor the biggest victory in school history. A tantalizing chance for an even grander prize lies just over the horizon for a team that wasn't even ranked until late September. After beating No. 2 Kansas 36-28 Saturday night and ruining the Jayhawks' perfect season, the fourth-ranked Tigers (No. 3 AP) are Big 12 North champions and off to San Antonio for a date with No. 10 Oklahoma in the conference title game. Best the Sooners, and they're in the BCS national championship game, something that seemed unthinkable in September for a team that hasn't won even a conference title in 38 years. "Hopefully, we're No. 1 in the nation," said Daniel, the junior quarterback who threw for 361 yards and three touchdowns. "But all that stuff doesn't matter.