Mizzou/Texas Post-Game Notes

Oct. 20, 2008

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Pre-Game

Senior WR Earl Goldsmith is wearing the honorary #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

The announced crowd of 98, 383 represents the 2nd-largest crowd to ever see a Missouri football game in person. The only other crowd larger than tonight's game was in 1975, when 104, 578 saw the Tigers play at Michigan…
TE Chase Coffman tied the MU career receptions record with his 2nd catch of the game, on a 6-yard gain from QB Chase Daniel. After the catch, Coffman stood tied with 2007 consensus 1st-Team All-American TE Martin Rucker, with 203 career receptions…
The Tigers trailed 14-0 at the end of the quarter, marking the first time in 2008 MU has been held scoreless in the opening 15 minutes of play. The last time MU was shutout in the 1st quarter was in game #2 of the 2007 season at Mississippi – a game the Tigers won 38-25…
Trailing 14-0, Mizzou appeared to have converted a 3rd-down out to near midfield, but had a costly penalty called against them, on offensive pass interference to change it from 1st-and-10 on the MU 46-yardline to 3rd-and-19 on its own 20-yardline…
Yards gained on 1st down set the tone for the quarter, as Mizzou gained a total of 3 yards on 4 1st-down plays in the 1st quarter (0.75 avg)., while Texas gained 87 yards on 11 1st-down snaps (7.9 avg)…
Because of the lack of success on 1st down, Mizzou's average distance to go on 3rd down in the quarter was 10.75 yards, while Texas' average distance on 3rd down was 4.0 yards…

2nd Quarter

DE Ziggy Hood got a sack of Texas QB Colt McCoy for a loss of 10 yards early in the quarter, for his 3rd sack of the season. It was career sack number 13.5 for the Amarillo, Texas native…
Coffman broke the receptions record with an 8-yard reception at the 9:07 mark, giving him an MU record 204 career receptions…
Mizzou apparently cut the deficit to 28-6 with just over 4 minutes left, when Daniel connected with WR Danario Alexander on a 4th-down TD pass in the left corner of the end zone. However, the play was reviewed and overturned, as replay officials felt there was inconclusive video evidence showing that Alexander's foot was out of bounds when he came down…
Mizzou avoided a 1st-half shutout as it drove 35 yards in just :41 seconds to get a 33-yard FG by PK Jeff Wolfert. That made the score 35-3 Texas at halftime…
Mizzou forced 2 Longhorn fumbles in the 1st half, but both were recovered by Texas. On one of those plays, DE Tommy Chavis forced a fumble on a strip of QB Colt McCoy deep in the Longhorn backfield, but the ball bounced right back to McCoy and he continued the play by throwing downfield for a 20-yard gain – a clear indication of the kind of night it was going to be for the Tigers…
Mizzou was just 1-of-6 on 3rd-down conversions for the half, while Texas was a perfect 7-of-7…

3rd Quarter

The Tigers got in the endzone at the 8:54 mark of the quarter on a 2-yard TD run by TB Derrick Washington, his 12th rushing TD of the season to make it 35-10. It marked the first rushing TD of the season against the Longhorn defense…
Daniel and Coffman hooked up for a 13-yard TD pass with 1:49 to go to cut the deficit to 42-17. The TD extended Coffman's MU career record to 24, and it was Daniel's 17th of the season and the 79th of his Tiger career…

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