23

Oklahoma
OKL

5-5, 1-5

30

Winner

Missouri
MIZ

7-2, 3-2

23

30

Winner

Score per quarter

Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	F
OKL Oklahoma	0	9	0	14	23
MIZ Missouri	0	3	7	20	30

Game overview: Football | 11/9/2024 10:41:00 PM

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Zion Young produced the biggest defensive play of a game full of defensive highlights, returning a fumble 17 yards for a touchdown with 30 seconds to play, giving the University of Missouri a 30-23 victory over Oklahoma in front of a sellout crowd at Faurot Field.

With the score at 23-23 and Oklahoma (5-5, 1-5) operating from its own 25-yard line, Triston Newson sacked Sooner quarterback Jackson Arnold and forced the fumble that was picked up by Young and returned for the go-ahead TD. It was the last defensive score by the Tigers (7-2, 3-2) to decide a game since then Jim Whitaker returned an interception 60 yards for a TD with three minutes remaining in a 21-14 win over Illinois in 1966.

Young’s heroics capped off a wild final three minutes of play in which the two teams combined for four touchdowns. First, Oklahoma used some blindside action to tie the score at 16-16. On 3rd and 4 at the MU 18, Arnold turned a back pass right to running back Taylor Tatum, who threw a pass back left to Arnold, who took it down the left sideline for an 18-yard touchdown with 3:18 left to play.

Shortly afterwards, Jamal Robertswho was Missouri’s leading rusher with 13 carries for 54 yards, fumbling and OU’s Billy Bowman Jr. returned it 43 yards for a touchdown that gave the Sooners a 23-16 lead.

But Mizzou rallied in the final two minutes. Quarterback Drew Pyne Things started to make a diagonal pass across the middle Theo Wease Jr. for a completion of 28 yards. A 33-yarder down the left sideline Luther Burden III on a third-and-16 kept the drive alive a short time later, and Pyne then hit Wease Jr. in the back corner of the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown. Kicker Blake Craig completed the drive to tie the score at 23-23 with 1:03 to play.

That’s when Young’s fumbled return sealed the win.

Pyne completed 14 of 27 passes for 143 yards and three touchdowns and gained 15 yards on the ground. Under his leadership, the offense converted 11 of 19 third downs. Burden III caught five passes for 55 yards and Wease Jr. finished with four for 70 yards with two touchdowns.

The win was Missouri’s ninth straight at home and just the Tigers’ eighth in the MU-OU series since World War II.

Missouri’s defense held Oklahoma to 257 yards and recovered four Sooner fumbles. It marked the fourth time the Tigers have recovered three or more fumbles against an SEC opponent, with MU undefeated in those games.

There were a lot of defensive heroes: linebacker Corey Flagg Jr. had 14 tackles, and his running mate Newson added 10 with a sack, two and a half tackles for loss, and forced a fumble. Safety Daylan Carnell had four tackles, one pass breakup and two forced fumbles in the game. In addition to his touchdown, Young added a quarterback rush and a pass breakup to his totals.

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The Tigers travel next week to face South Carolina on Saturday, November 16. Game time at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina is 3:15 PM CT and the game will be broadcast on the SEC Network. The two teams play for the Mayor’s Cup.

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