In those days, the wire services crowned champs after the
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regular seasons, but before the bowl games. That's why Mizzou finished 4/5 in 1960.
From the Orange Bowl web site:
Missouri held Navy Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award winner Joe Bellino to just four yards rushing and came away a 21-14 winner on a day of big plays. Missouri avenged a 1960 Orange Bowl loss and would have finished the season as national champion had it not been for a regular season-ending loss to (k)ansas. kansas used an ineligible player in Bert Cohen who they illegally recruited and were warned by the conference. Cohen was the difference in that game.