<table> </table> C OLUMBIA | Brock Christopher is not hard to fathom. His singular wish heading into Missouri&#8217;s game on Saturday before Nebraska&#8217;s 294th consecutive sellout was this:</p><p>&#8220;I look forward to getting booed,&#8221; Christopher said.</p><p>Hey, Christopher is a linebacker. A former fullback, too, at Kearney High School.</p><p>&#8220;There are a lot of the same type of things,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Except one has the ball.&#8221;</p><p>Sean Weatherspoon cackles when he hears Christopher issue such a deadpan explanation. Weatherspoon, after all, is the animated one among Missouri&#8217;s three starting linebackers. Luke Lambert is intense, and so obviously young.</p><p>Christopher is the great stone face that, if you look at it out of the corner of your eye, you swear wears the hint of a smile that says he knows something you don&#8217;t.</p><p>As when Weatherspoon rode the pogo-stick of his emotions celebrating Christopher&#8217;s 17-yard interception return for a touchdown in No. 3 Mizzou&#8217;s 52-17 victory at Nebraska on Saturday night.</p><p>&#8220;I was so excited for him,&#8221; Weatherspoon said. &#8220;He just grinned. I think he was laughing at me. You know when he&#8217;s enjoying himself.&#8221;</p><p>The pick of Joe Ganz, and Christopher&#8217;s charge up the sideline to the TD broke Nebraska&#8217;s will.</p><p>&#8220;I think that kind of took the wind out of their sails,&#8221; Christopher said. &#8220;Especially the crowd. Early in the third quarter people were starting to get up out of their seats and leaving.</p><p>&#8220;That was good to see.&#8221;</p><p>See, there it is. Christopher is having a perfectly pleasant conversation with you, and then he slips in the knife.</p><p>There was a lot of smack talk on the field at Nebraska early on. It faded quickly for the Huskers.</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s not much to say when you&#8217;re getting smoked,&#8221; Christopher said.</p><p>MU coach Gary Pinkel likes the flint in Christopher&#8217;s demeanor.</p><p>&#8220;All linebackers are a little different to start with,&#8221; Pinkel joked. &#8220;And that&#8217;s OK. That&#8217;s an attitude. We want players to have that attitude. It allows you to compete and kind of embrace what&#8217;s happening.</p><p>&#8220;The first couple of years I was here it was very difficult to get our players to think that way.&#8221;</p><p>Christopher is Missouri&#8217;s leading active career tackler with 254 halfway through his senior year. He&#8217;s had three interceptions in a career that began with action as a true freshman.</p><p>Christopher will play in his 44th game as a Tiger against No. 17 Oklahoma State on Saturday night in Columbia.</p><p>But he&#8217;s likely long to remember game No. 43, at Nebraska, and especially the first pick-six of Christopher&#8217;s college career.</p><p>&#8220;My mom was saying, before the start of the season, &#8216;You need to get one of those,&#8217; &#8221; said Maureen Christopher&#8217;s son.</p><p>Ganz apparently never saw Christopher lurking in a passing lane as the Nebraska quarterback rolled right under pressure.</p><p>&#8220;I was just off in no-man&#8217;s land, playing zone,&#8221; Christopher said. &#8220;He threw it right to me.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going, &#8216;Don&#8217;t drop it! Don&#8217;t drop it!&#8217; Then, &#8216;Just get in the end zone!&#8217; &#8221;</p><p>The other members of the Missouri defense mobbed Christopher. Safety William Moore came flying in over the top, though Christopher didn&#8217;t realize who it was until he saw a picture of it on the front page of <em>The Star</em> on Sunday.</p><p>Christopher just stood there, forming that enigmatic smile around the mouthpiece he worried between his teeth.</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a quiet guy, but on the field he just changes into somebody else,&#8221; said MU defensive lineman Ziggy Hood. &#8220;He&#8217;s just as good a linebacker as Sean Weatherspoon.</p><p>&#8220;And he&#8217;s one of the best linebackers in the country right now.&#8221;