Mizzou/Nebraska Post-Game Notes

Oct. 5, 2008

Pre-Game

Senior DE Stryker Sulak is wearing the honorary No. 25 jersey tonight in honor of Aaron O'Neal, who wore the number before passing away in the summer of 2005 after a summer conditioning workout in Columbia. O'Neal would have been a senior in 2008, and each game the rest of the season, a senior starter is chosen to wear the number in his honor…

1st Quarter

Mizzou took a 7-0 lead on the third play of the game on a Chase Daniel to Jeremy Maclin 58-yard TD pass with 14:01 left. It marked the fifth time in five games this year that Mizzou has scored on its opening possession of the game…
The 58-yarder marked Mizzou's longest scoring play at Nebraska since an MU-record-long 98-yard TD pass from Pete Woods to Joe Stewart in 1976, a 34-24 Mizzou win…
The TD pass was the 75th of Daniel's career (an MU record), against 24 career interceptions. It was the 14th career receiving TD for Maclin, and that moves him into a tie for fourth on the MU career chart with former great Mel Gray, who had 14 receiving TDs from 1968-70…
Nebraska answered with a 60-yard TD drive, and became the first opponent to score against Mizzou's defense on its opening possession of the game this season…
Mizzou answered back with an 80-yard TD drive capped by TB Derrick Washington's 9th rushing score of the season, and his 10th overall. Washington entered tonight's game leading the Big 12 Conference, and ranking third nationally in scoring (13.5 ppg)…
The quarter ended with MU holding a 14-7 lead, marking the first time since 2002 that Mizzou led in Lincoln after one quarter (led 10-7, lost 24-13). The seven-point margin marked Mizzou's largest in Lincoln since MU led 7-0 after one quarter in 1962, on the way to a Tiger 16-7 win…

2nd Quarter

Jeff Wolfert opened scoring in the quarter as he connected on a 48-yard FG with 10:54 left to make it 17-7 Tigers. Wolfert improved 27-of-27 in FGs in Big 12 play for his career. He entered the game perfect in his career on all kicks in Big 12 games, a combined 90-for-90 - 26-of-26 on FGs, and 64-of-64 on PATs…
Senior TB Jimmy Jackson capped a 75-yard drive with a one-yard TD plunge at the 4:08 mark, making it 24-7 Tigers. It was the 12th career rushing TD for Jackson, and his second of 2008…
The Tigers made it 30-7 at 2:59 when senior LB Brock Christopher intercepted his third career pass (first of 2008) and returned it 17 yards for a TD for his first career score…
Wolfert's perfect Big 12 streak came to an end at the halftime gun, although the miss did come from 59 yards away…
The 31 points scored at halftime marks only the sixth time MU has scored 30 points or more in Lincoln in a game, and the 31 is the most ever scored in the first half by the Tigers in the first half at Nebraska (the previous high was 23 in 1976)…
The other five occasions MU has scored 30 points or more at Nebraska came in 1948 (Missouri 33-6); 1950 (Nebraska 40-34); 1958 (Missouri 31-0); 1976 (Missouri 34-24); and 1978 (Missouri 35-31)…

3rd Quarter

Daniel connected with Washington on a seven-yard TD pass with 7:16 left to make it 38-10. That is Washington's third career receiving TD and second of this season…
Washington tacked on another TD, on a 43-yard scamper with 2:24 left, this marks the fifth time in five games in 2008 that Washington has had two rushing TDs…
Daniel and Danario Alexander hooked up on a 26-yard TD after the Tiger defense forced a fumble to make it 52-10…

4th Quarter

Senior quarterback Chase Patton entered the game with just over 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter, while freshman Blaine Gabbert entered with five minutes left in the game. The showing was Patton's and Gabbert's third appearance of the season.

Post-Game

Missouri's 52-10 victory marked the Tigers first win in Lincoln since 1978. A 30-year span that included 15 straight losses to the Cornhuskers in the confines of Memorial Stadium. Missouri last won in Lincoln, 35-31, in 1978.
With Missouri's win, it marked the first time in 34 years that the Tigers won back-to-back contests against Nebraska. Missouri locked up a 13-12 win in 1973 in Columbia and followed with a 21-10 victory in Lincoln in 1974.
By putting up 52 points on the scoreboard, the Saturday evening game marked the most points Missouri has ever scored against Nebraska, the previous high, 35, recorded in Missouri's 1978 win in Lincoln.
The 35 point margin of victory is Missouri's largest margin of victory in Lincoln and ties the second largest margin of victory recorded over the Huskers in any location. In 1947, the Tigers won the game by 41 points (47-6 in Columbia, Mo). Last season, 2007, Missouri held off Nebraska by 35 points in Columbia.
Missouri has now won eight of its last 10 Big 12 games dating back to the start of the 2007 campaign.

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