No. 19 Missouri Becomes Bowl Eligible after 21-17 Homecoming Victory over Auburn

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Regardless of taking part in via harm, Brady Prepare dinner led a pair of lengthy landing drives that helped No. 19 Missouri register the come-from-behind victory over Auburn, 21-17, earlier than a sellout crowd on Homecoming at Memorial Stadium/Faurot Subject on Saturday.

Prepare dinner, hobbled by an harm suffered on the sport’s first possession, missed almost all the first half and far of the third quarter earlier than rallying Mizzou (6-1, 2-1) to its eighth consecutive Homecoming victory. That stretch marked the longest consecutive for the college that invented the custom, and first victory over Auburn (2-5, 0-4) for the reason that 1973 Solar Bowl. Moreover with Saturday’s win, MU is bowl eligible for the fifth consecutive season.

Trailing 17-6, Prepare dinner returned to the sport with 31 second remaining within the third quarter and accomplished a Third-and-10 move over the center that Mookie Cooper took 78 yards to the Auburn two-yard line. It was the longest non-scoring move completion at Missouri in at the very least the final 60 years. On the primary play of the fourth quarter, Marcus Carroll barreled into the tip zone for a landing and Prepare dinner ran for a two-point conversion to convey MU inside 17-14.

The 2 groups exchanged 5 punts till Missouri took over at its personal five-yard line with 4:26 to play. Prepare dinner marched the Tigers 95 yards in 17 performs, changing a 4th-and-5 play with a 16-yard completion to Luther Burden III, and a Third-and-10 to Theo Wease Jr. On the 9, Jamal Roberts ran for 5 yards to the 4, then broke three tackles on his technique to the tip zone for the rating that put Mizzou up for good with simply 46 ticks remaining.

On Auburn’s remaining possession, Daylan Carnell, Dreyden Norwood and Tre’Vez Johnson every broke up a move and Johnny Walker Jr. sacked quarterback Payton Thorne.

Prepare dinner accomplished 11-of-22 passes for 194 yards. Burden III caught six passes for 49 yards and have become the twelfth Tiger to prime 2,000 profession receiving yards. He now has 167 receptions for two,027 yards.

With the rating tied 3-3 at halftime, Auburn took the second-half kickoff and rapidly scored on a 47-yard landing move from Thorne to Cam Coleman to take a 10-3 lead. Simply over a minute later, Burden III muffed a punt on the 15-yard line that bounded into the tip zone the place it was recovered for a landing by Auburn’s Antonio Kite to up the result in 17-3.

Backup quarterback Drew Pyne, who for his almost three quarters of play accomplished 10-of-21 passes for 78 yards, led a 44-yard drive on MU’s subsequent possession that ended with a 38-yard subject aim by Blake Craig to tug the deficit to inside 17-6. Auburn’s Cities McGough then missed a 30-yard subject aim earlier than Prepare dinner returned to ship his heroics.

Within the first quarter, Craig kicked a 51-yard subject aim, the fourth 50-plus subject aim of his younger profession, tying him with Jeff Jacke for third on the MU profession lists, and McGough countered with a 32-yarder for Auburn.

Missouri’s protection restricted Auburn to 286 complete yards, and simply 22 yards – 4 speeding and 18 passing, within the fourth quarter alone.

Security Marvin Burks Jr. and linebacker Corey Flagg Jr. every had 9 tackles, whereas linebacker Triston Newson added seven.

Earlier than at this time Auburn had been 150-1 during the last 20 years when main by 14-or-more factors within the second half.

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