That set up Mevis for a 38-yard field goal with 1:21 before halftime.įlorida got the ball first in the second half and gave MU a heavy dose of Etienne.

Schrader went to work again, taking a third-down option pitch from Cook and dashing 34 yards to the Florida 26. Late in the second quarter, a Mertz pass went off the hands of Arlis Boardingham and was intercepted by Jaylon Carlies at the Mizzou 37-yard line.

The SEC's leading rusher, Schrader has 1,272 yards this season which stands as the 6th-best rushing season in school history.įlorida's first-half score came on a eight-yard pass from Graham Mertz to Eugene Wilson III after Mertz had completed a 61-yard throw to Ricky Pearsall down to the MU 12-yard line. Missouri led 13-7 at halftime on two Mevis FGs and a 42-yard TD run by Cody Schrader, who had 123 rushing yards in the first two quarters and finished the game with 23 carries for 148 yards. On a third-and-three at the MU 44, he ran 27 yards for a first down, and after the Tigers' defense stopped the Gators on three straight plays, Trey Smack kicked a 35-yard field goal that gave Florida a 31-30 lead. The Gators forced Missouri to punt, and Brown got them moving again. Two plays later, Cook completed a short pass out to the right to Theo Wease Jr.who, behind blocks from Cooper and Burden, sprinted 77 yards down the field – MU's longest play of the season – for a touchdown that made the score 30-21 with 13:14 to play.īut Florida narrowed the MU lead to 30-28 with a 75-yard drive that was prolonged when the Gators converted a fourth-and-four at their own 31-yard line and ended with a Trevor Etienne nine-yard TD run. The back-and-forth affair featured eight lead changes - six in the second half. It looked like the Tigers had salted the game away earlier in the fourth quarter, when Florida backup quarterback Max Brown fumbled, and Kristian Williams recovered at the Missouri 19-yard line. Facing fourth-and-17 at the MU 33-yard line with 38 seconds left, Cook found Luther Burden III for 27 yards to the Florida 40, then Mekhi Miller for 11 to the 29, and Mookie Cooper for 16 to the 13.

Mevis' kick, the fourth of the game for the most prolific kicker in Mizzou history, capped a miraculous final drive engineered by quarterback Brady Cook in the game's final 1:36. – Harrison Mevis kicked a 30-yard field goal with five seconds to play to lift the #9 Missouri Tigers (9-2, 5-2) to a 33-31 victory over the Florida Gators (5-6, 3-5) on Senior Night before Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field's fifth consecutive sellout crowd.

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