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Missouri faces Southeast Missouri State on Saturday, and as a reminder of the possible dangers related to playing an FCS opponent, Tigers Coach Eli Drinkwitz had a list of the seven FCS teams that have beaten FBS teams this season posted in every player’s locker.

Most shockingly, Jacksonville (Ala.) State won 20-17 at Florida State last week on a 59-yard touchdown pass on the game’s final play. East Tennessee State won 23-3 at Vanderbilt to open the season.

One of the more infamous FCS upsets of an FBS team happened in 1992 — back then the divisions were called I-AA and I-A — when The Citadel beat Arkansas 10-3 in Fayetteville.

Drinkwitz was 9 years old at the time and living in Alma.

“I remember how big of a shock and disappointment it was to the state of Arkansas and to the proud program, and the changes that immediately happened because of that,” Drinkwitz said.

Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles fired Jack Crowe as coach the day after the game — which was the Razorbacks’ first since joining the SEC — and promoted defensive coordinator Joe Kines to interim coach.

Crowe later was on the winning end of an FCS upset when his Jacksonville State team won 49-48 in double overtime at Ole Miss in 2010. Houston Nutt, the Little Rock native and former Razorbacks coach, was coaching the Rebels.

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