73rd Brut Sun Bowl Postgame Notes
12/29/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
Dec. 29, 2006
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Pre-Game
- Mizzou is 1-of-6 Big 12 Conference teams, and 1-of-45 schools nationally, to play in at least 3 bowl games over the last 4 seasons. The other Big 12 schools who have reached that standard include Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech (4 each in the last 4 years), Mizzou, Nebraska and Oklahoma State (3 each). Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Texas A&M each have 2 bowl appearances in the last 4 seasons, with Baylor having none...
1st Quarter
- Oregon State won the coin toss and deferred, giving Mizzou the opening kick for all 13 games this season...
- The Tigers took advantage quickly by marching 80 yards on 10 plays to go up 7-0 on Tony Temple's 7-yard TD run at the 11:30 mark. That marked the 9th time in 13 games that MU has scored on the game's opening possession in 2006, including 5 TDs and 4 FGs...
- QB Chase Daniel broke the MU single-season total offense record on the opening drive when he hit TE Chase Coffman for a long gain. Daniel finished the season with 3,906 yards of offense, breaking Brad Smith's mark of 3,605 set in 2005...
- On the same play, Mizzou broke the team single-season passing yardage record. MU finished with 3,590 passing yards, needing just 18 coming into the game to break the previous mark of 3,248 set by the 1990 Tiger squad...
- TB Tony Temple ended the 1st quarter with a 20-yard rush to bring his total to 48 yards on 5 carries. The 20-yard rush was his 12th of the year for 20 yards or more...
- The quarter ended with OSU holding a 14-7 lead. Total offense stood in favor of OSU by a 120-92 margin...
2nd Quarter
- Mizzou answered with a 10-play, 69-yard drive to pull to within 14-10 on a 30-yard FG by PK Jeff Wolfert at the 11:21 mark. The kick moved Wolfert to 18-of-20 on the season for FGs, which allowed him to break the single-season accuracy record (min. 20+ attempts) of .700 (14-of-20) set by Adam Crossett last year...
- Daniel hit WR Danario Alexander for a 74-yard TD pass (Alexander's 1st career TD) at the 8:43 mark to put MU up, 17-14. That equaled the longest pass of the season for MU, as Daniel connected with another true freshman, WR Jared Perry, for a 74-yard score in the regular-season finale against Kansas. It was a career-long reception for Alexander, whose previous long was 49-yarder at Nebraska earlier this year...
- The pass play was also the longest pass in MU bowl-game history, breaking the previous mark of 48 yards in 1972 Fiesta Bowl, when John Cherry connected with Chuck Link against Arizona State...
- That TD also gave Daniel his 31st TD responsible for this season (4 scored, 27 passed for), and that breaks the record he held coming into the game with Brad Smith, who had 30 TDs responsible for in 2003 (19 scored, 11 passed for). He finished with a 28th touchdown pass later in the game for 32 TDRF...
- DE Xzavie Jackson sacked OSU QB Matt Moore at the 5:42 mark and forced a fumble, which was recovered by fellow DE Stryker Sulak at the Beaver 44-yardline. It was Jackson's career sack number 16.5, which keeps him 7th on MU's career list...
- OSU got the ball back on their own forced fumble/QB sack, but the Tiger defense held on the ensuing Beaver drive, as Sulak sacked Moore to end the series, and MU ran out the clock to take a 17-14 halftime lead...
- MU held a 217-to-176 edge in total offense at halftime, outgaining the Beavers by a 125-to-56 margin...
- Daniel ended the half 8-of-14 passing for 192 yards and 1 TD...
3rd Quarter
- MU tried a surprise onside kick to open the half, and appeared to have recovered, but officials ruled that kicker Adam Crossett touched the ball before it traveled 10 yards. OSU took over at the MU 41-yardline and needed only 4 plays to reach the endzone to reclaim the lead at 21-17 - the 3rd lead change of the day to that point...
- The Tigers roared right back by marching 71 yards on just 5 plays to reclaim a 24-21 lead, as TE Chase Coffman threw a 29-yard TD pass after a lateral to WR Tommy Saunders at the 11:14 mark. It was Coffman's 1st career pass and TD, and Saunders' 3rd career TD (2nd of the year). The 29-yard catch was the longest of Saunders' career, besting the previous long of 23 at Iowa State earlier this year...
- Mizzou broke the school record for total offense in a season on the above scoring drive. MU finished with 5,533 yards on the year, breaking the old mark of 5,245 set in 13 games by the 2003 Tiger squad.
- TB Tony Temple ripped off a 65-yard TD run at the 5:58 mark to put MU up 31-21. The run was a career-long for Temple, breaking the previous long of 59 he had on a TD run in 2005 against Troy. The run also put him over the 100-yard mark, as his updated totals moved to 14 carries for 120 yards and 2 TDs...
- PK Jeff Wolfert's 4th PAT of the day gave him 44 (of 44 attempts), which tied him for the most PATs made in a season. The previous mark was 44 set by Mike Matheny in 2003 (47 attempts). Wolfert broke the record on a Chase Coffman TD in the 4th quarter.
4th Quarter
- TB Tony Temple went over 1,000 yards for the season on a 47-yard run that set up the 17-yard Chase Daniel-to-Chase Coffman touchdown. Temple entered the game with 869 yards on the year, and finishes the season with 1,063 yards on 193 carries (5.5 ypc)...
- On an 8-yard run late in the fourth quarter, Temple broke the Sun Bowl single-game rushing record of 197 yards, set by Charles Alexander of LSU vs. Stanford in 1977. He lost four yards on his next rush to fall three yards behind the record.
- His 194 yards nevertheless broke the Mizzou all-time bowl record of 179 yards, previously held by Greg Cook vs. Alabama in the 1968 Gator Bowl.
Post-Game
- DE Xzavie Jackson was named the Jimmy Rogers, Jr., Most Valuable Lineman.
- PK Jeff Wolfert was named the John H. Folmer Most Valuable Special Teams Player. He converted all five of his PATs to tie a Mizzou bowl record set by Bill Sangster (1968 Gator Bowl vs. Alabama) and Adam Crossett (2005 Independence Bowl vs. South Carolina).
- Wolfert also made all 45 of his PAT attempts this season, making him the most accurate kicker in Mizzou history. The previous best was .971 (33-of-34) by Tim Gibbons in 1975.
- With his fourth 300-yard passing game of the season, Daniel broke the school record of three held by Jeff Handy in 1992 and Terry McMillan in 1969.
- The squad set a team record with 291 completions on the season, breaking the old mark of 277 set last year.
- The 291 first downs broke the previous mark of 274 in a 13-game 2003 season, and the 281 first downs in a 12-game 2005 season.
- Daniel set school marks for total season completions (287), breaking the 12-game mark of 237 set by Brad Smith last year.
- Mizzou set a Brut Sun Bowl record with 561 yards of total offense, breaking the mark of 530 set by Pitt vs. Texas A&M in 1989; with their average gain of 8.6 yards per play, they broke the mark of 7.3 by Alabama vs. Army in 1988. The total offense total also set a Mizzou bowl record, breaking the 504 yards in last year's Independence Bowl.
- Mizzou's 38 points tied a school bowl record set last year in the Independence Bowl win over South Carolina.
- Today's game marked the fifth time in Mizzou bowl history that the Tigers scored five touchdowns.
- MU's 359 passing yards broke last year's team single-game bowl record of 301 yards, and Daniel's 330 yards bested Brad Smith's 282-yard individual performance set last year.
- The three touchdown passes tied a school bowl record, set in Mizzou's last Sun Bowl appearance in 1973.
- Daniel's two TD passes ties a Mizzou bowl record held by John Cherry (1972 Fiesta vs. Arizona State) and Ray Smith (1973 Sun vs. Auburn).
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