Mizzou/K-State Post-Game Notes
11/14/2009 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 14, 2009
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- With the win, Mizzou moves to 6-4 (2-4 in the Big 12) and has made itself bowl-eligible for a school-record fifth consecutive year. That breaks the previous record of four straight set by the 1978-81 Tiger squads. Mizzou's current string started after the 2005 regular season with its second Independence Bowl appearance in three years, and the Tigers have subsequently appeared in the Sun, Cotton and Alamo Bowls.
- Senior Danario Alexander's 10-catch, 200-yard outing marks the first time in Mizzou history that a receiver has had back-to-back 200-yard receiving games. He's also tied a Jeremy Maclin record with three-straight 100-yard receiving games.
1st Quarter
- OFFENSIVE STARTERS (2009 Starts/Career Starts) - RG Kurtis Gregory (10th / 38th), C Tim Barnes (10th / 24th), LT Elvis Fisher (10th / 24th), RT Dan Hoch (10th / 10th), LG Austin Wuebbels (10th / 10th), WR Jared Perry (10th / 26th), WR Danario Alexander (10th / 13th), TB Derrick Washington (10th / 24th), QB Blaine Gabbert (10th / 10th), WR Wes Kemp (10th / 10th), WR Jerrell Jackson (4th / 4th)...
- DEFENSIVE STARTERS - LB Sean Weatherspoon (10th / 38th), CB Carl Gettis (10th / 34th), NOSE Jaron Baston (10th / 24th), CB Kevin Rutland (10th / 10th), LB Andrew Gachkar (10th / 10th), DT Dominique Hamilton (9th / 9th), S Jasper Simmons (9th / 9th), DE Aldon Smith (9th / 9th), DE Brian Coulter (7th / 8th), S Jarrell Harrison (5th / 5th), LB Will Ebner (4th / 4th)...
- Mizzou got the opening kick and put together a nice drive before having to settle for a 23-yard Grant Ressel field goal to take a 3-0 lead with 10:13 to play. It marked the 2nd-longest scoring drive of the season for the Tigers, in terms of time of possession, trailing only the 12-play, 81-yard TD drive that consumed 5:46 against Texas on Oct. 24th...
- The score marked the 3rd straight game that MU had put points on the board on its game-opening possession, following TD drives to begin last week against Baylor and the previous week at Colorado...
- Penalties were killer for the Tigers in the 1st quarter, as Mizzou was flagged 4 times for 51 yards, compared to a clean slate by Kansas State. Mizzou overcame a 15-yard chop block penalty on its opening drive to move downfield for a field goal, but a hold on its kickoff return after K-State tied the game at 3-apiece set MU deep in its own territory, at its own 7-yardline. After being forced to punt, MU was then guilty of kick-catch interference, which set up K-State on the MU 40-yardline. The hits kept on coming as MU was flagged for a 15-yard penalty for helmet-to-helmet contact after apparently forcing a stop on 3rd-and-10 at the MU 29-yardline. That penalty kept the K-State drive alive...
- K-State's 1st quarter possessions began on its own 45-yardline and the MU 40-yardline, while MU's 2 drives started on its own 20-yardline and 7-yardline.
2nd Quarter
- Mizzou got a huge play to begin the quarter when Zaviar Gooden forced a fumble inside the MU 1-yardline that rolled forward through the endzone for a touchback to give the Tigers the ball back at is 20-yardline. It was the first forced fumble of Gooden's career...
- Mizzou benefited from K-State's 1st penalty of the game to keep a drive alive on defensive pass interference on what was an incompletion on 3rd-and-long from its own 37-yardline. One play after the penalty, QB Blaine Gabbert hooked up with WR Danario Alexander on a 54-yard TD pass to give Mizzou a 10-3 lead at the 12:07 mark. It was Gabbert's 18th TD pass of the season, and Alexander's 9th receiving score of the year, which is tied for 4th-most on the MU single-season receiving TD chart (see the sidebar on page 15 of MU game notes for details)...
- It marked the 10th completion of 30 yards or more on the season between Gabbert and Alexander...
- The TD came after the K-State turnover, and it marked the first time MU has scored a TD following an opponent turnover since the Nevada game on Sept. 25th...
- After K-State drove for a field goal to make it 10-6, the Tigers put together an impressive 92-yard, 10-play drive to make it 17-6 Tigers with just 0:20 seconds left before halftime. The TD came on a 16-yard strike from Gabbert to Alexander, so update their season TD totals to 19 for Gabbert and 10 for Alexander, the latter of which is now tied for #2 on the MU single-season chart...
- Mizzou held a total offense advantage of 259-to-128 at halftime.
3rd Quarter
- After K-State got a pair of field goals to pull to within 17-9, Mizzou struck quick, as Gabbert hit Alexander on a quick in, and Alexander made one move and got to the sideline, and went untouched 80 yards for another score to make it 24-12. Update the TD numbers to 20 for Gabbert and 11 for Alexander, which is now 2nd-most in MU single-season history, behind only the 13 by Jeremy Maclin in 2008...
- The catch upped Alexander's game totals to 9 receptions for 192 yards and 3 TDs. The 3 TDs ties the MU single-game TD reception mark of 3, achieved 4 times previously. The other 3-TD games in Tiger history were by Victor Bailey against Kansas in 1991, Dwayne Blakley against Western Michigan in 1999, Chase Coffman against Colorado in 2007 and Jeremy Maclin against Nevada in 2008...
- Gabbert and Alexander now have 11 pass plays together of 30 yards or more this season...
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