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| Indiana | Memorial Stadium / Faurot Field - Columbia, Mo. | Saturday / 3:00 p.m. CT |
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MIZZOU SET TO HOST INDIANA ON FAMILY WEEKEND
The No. 18 Missouri Tigers (3-0 overall) close out their 2014 non-conference season this Saturday as they play host to the Indiana Hoosiers (1-1) at Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field. Kickoff for the contest is set for 3 p.m. (central time), with the game being televised on the SEC Network.
The Tigers are coming off a 38-10 home win over UCF that saw a dominant second-half performance as Mizzou pulled away after leading at halftime by a slim 14-10 margin. The Tiger defense forced four second-half turnovers to key the surge, and sophomore QB Maty Mauk threw for four more touchdowns, giving him a nation's best 12 through three games.
Indiana comes into the game after suffering a heart-breaking last-second 45-42 loss at Bowling Green last week. In a thrilling back-and-forth game that saw 10 lead changes throughout the day, IU took a 42-39 lead with 2:04 remaining in the game, only to see BGSU drive for the winning TD with just :09 seconds left. The Hoosiers bring a high-powered offensive attack to Columbia, as they are averaging 574.0 yards per game, including running back Tevin Coleman, who comes in as the nation's leading rusher with an average of 218.5 yards a contest.
MIZZOU / INDIANA SERIES HISTORY
The Tigers and Hoosiers have met 11 times previously on the gridiron, and they've played to an interesting set of results over the years. Indiana enters Saturday's contest holding a 6-3-2 edge in the series, which began with a home-and-home in 1953 and 1954. The Tigers won both of those games (14-7 in Bloomington and 20-14 in Columbia), but it was all Hoosiers after that, as Indiana went 6-0-2 in an eight-game home-and-home series from 1985 to 1992. During that stretch, IU was 2-0-2 at Faurot Field, winning in consecutive years (36-17 in 1985 / 41-24 in 1986), while ties were the end result in the last two games played in CoMo (28-28 in 1988 / 27-27 in 1991).
Mizzou claimed a 45-28 win at Indiana last year in the Tigers' third game of the 2013 season, marking MU's first win over IU since the 1954 triumph.
LAST TIME VS. THE HOOSIERS
Mizzou improved to 3-0 on the 2013 season with a 45-28 win in Bloomington, breaking a string of four straight losses for MU in Bloomington (1987, 1989, 1990, 1992). The game featured two of the nation's top offenses, and the game lived up to its billing early as the teams traded consecutive scores for a 14-all tie midway through the 2nd quarter. After Mizzou QB James Franklin capped a drive with his own 1-yard TD run for a 21-14 lead, the key play of the game happened when MU's DE Kony Ealy leaped high to knock down an attempted pass at the line of scrimmage, only to have the ball stick in his mitts for an interception. The athletic Ealy raced the other way untouched 49 yards for a touchdown and a 28-14 lead that seemed to give the Tigers all the momentum they needed to pull away.
And pull away they did, as Mizzou scored the next 10 points after halftime (for a 24-0 run in all) to take a commanding 38-14 lead early in the 4th quarter. The Hoosiers would get a pair of 4th-quarter scores sandwiched around a 45-yard TD run by MU's Russell Hansbrough (who ended the night with 104 rushing yards) to account for the final score, but the outcome was never really that much in doubt after Ealy's big pick-six play.
Mizzou rolled to a whopping 673 yards of total offense (including 343 passing and 280 rushing) - the most ever at IU's Memorial Stadium for an opponent, while Indiana amassed 475 yards of their own in the losing effort
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