Oct. 14, 2003

Dallas, Texas - Missouri QB Brad Smith, Oklahoma CB Derrick Strait and Colorado kicker Mason Crosby have been named SBC Big 12 Conference Players of the Week for games of Oct. 11 in voting by a select panel of media covering the Big 12.

Smith of Youngstown, Ohio, Strait of Austin, Texas, and Crosby of Georgetown, Texas, are SBC Offensive, Defensive and Special Teams' winners, respectively.

The Missouri quarterback became the first Tigers' QB in 22 years to beat a Top 10 team as he led MU to a 41-24 upset of then-10th-ranked Nebraska in Columbia. It was Mizzou's first win over Nebraska since 1978 (breaking a string of 24 consecutive defeats to the Cornhuskers). The win also was MU's first over NU in Columbia since 1973 as Smith helped the Tigers pile up 452 yards of total offense against the nation's No. 1 defense prior to the game.

He had 303 yards of total offense and tied a school record by scoring four TDs (three rushing, one receiving). All his TD runs came in the fourth quarter as he rallied MU from a 24-14 deficit by running for scores of 39, one and 9 yards. His TD reception (the first of his career) was a 47-yarder on a throwback pass from former QB Darius Outlaw that put MU up by a 14-7 score. Smith passed for 180 yards (13-for-27) and added 123 more on the ground, to mark the eighth time in 18 career games that he has surpassed the century mark in both passing and rushing in the same game. He also became the first player to rush for 100 yards this season against a NU defense that came in allowing just 72.8 rushing yards per game.