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Mizzou's senior class isn't very big (just 15 in all, including only 5 senior starters) but they've already made a splash in the MU record books, as the win last Saturday against Iowa State gave them 37 wins in the last four years, and that has tied them with the 2008 senior class for the school record for most wins by a senior class in a four-year period.

 A win Saturday over Kansas would give them the record all to themselves.

   This class has been a very key group of players and leaders who have helped push Mizzou to new heights.

 They have been part of two Big 12 North Division championship teams, they've helped lead Mizzou to bowl games in each of the past four seasons overall (2005 Independence, 2006 Sun, 2008 Cotton, 2008 Alamo), and they were also part of the 2007 team which ascended to #1 in the BCS polls on Nov. 25th, 2007.

   Now that the 2009 team is bowl eligible, this senior class is on pace to join the 1981 senior class and the 2008 senior class as the only others in Tiger history to play in four bowl games in a four-year span (Mizzou played in bowls each year from 1978-81, and repeated that feat from 2005-08).

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