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Lock, Albert O Help @MizzouFootball to 65-33 Homecoming Win Over Memphis
10/20/2018 6:15:00 PM | Football
48-point first half, led by Lock and Albert Okwuegbunam, powers Mizzou to 62nd Homecoming victory
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Football scored 48 points in the first half and rolled to a 65-33 Homecoming victory over Memphis Saturday afternoon (Oct. 20) at Memorial Stadium. Mizzou improves to 4-3 on the season and 62-40-5 in Homecoming games. Mizzou has won 12 of its last 17 Homecoming games and two in a row. Memphis falls to 4-4 on the year.
Senior QB Drew Lock turned in the sixth-best single-game QB rating in school history (226.2) as he threw for 350 yards on 23-of-29 passing with four TDs, his 11th career game with four scores. Many of those yards went to sophomore TE Albert Okwuegbunam as he tallied a career-high 159 yards on just six catches with three of them going for scores, matching his career-high.
TURNING POINT
The turning point in Saturday's game came in the second quarter. After Memphis scored 17 consecutive points to a trim a 21-0 Mizzou lead to just four, head coach Barry Odom rolled the dice. Facing a fourth-and-one from their own 34-yard line, the Tigers turned to their senior QB on a rollout. He placed a perfect throw to Memphis native Johnathon Johnson for an eight-yard game to move the chains.
On the very next play, Mizzou ran the run-pass-option to perfection and Lock found sophomore TE Albert Okwuegbunam for a 58-yard TD to shift momentum back towards the Tigers. On the ensuing Memphis drive, sophomore CB Adam Sparks hauled in his third career interception on the first play of the drive. Mizzou then scored on the first play of its ensuing drive on a 44-yard strike from Lock to Knox and Mizzou controlled the game from there.
TOP TIGERS
- Senior QB Drew Lock went 23-for-29 for 350 yards and moved into seventh place in SEC history with 10,674 career yards. He tallied his 11th career game with four or more TDs in the win. Lock's 226.2 rating Saturday is the sixth best in Mizzou history
- Sophomore TE Albert Okwuegbunam posted a career-high 159 yards on six catches with a career-high three touchdowns. He had three catches for 108 yards and two scores in the first half alone. His multi-TD performance gives him five such performances his career, tying him for the most ever by a Mizzou tight end with All-American and Mackey Award Winner Chase Coffman (2005-08). For context, Coffman tallied his fifth career multi-TD game in his 51st career game. Okwuegbunam needed just 20.
- Freshman WR Jalen Knox tallied his second career 100-yard receiving game, making him the first true freshman with multiple 100-yard games since Dimetrios Mason in 2016.
- Junior captain LB Cale Garrett posted 11 tackles Saturday, giving him back-to-back games with 10 or more tackles for the second time in his career.
- Senior LB Terez Hall tallied his second game this season with multiple tackles for loss as he posted 2.0 in the game. He now has 5.0 tackles for loss over the last three games. Hall posted 11 total tackles, his sixth career game with 10+ tackles and second this season.
- CBs Christian Holmes and Adam Sparks each tallied interceptions Saturday, both leading to Mizzou touchdowns. Holmes' was a 42-yard pick six.
NOTES
- Mizzou improves to 62-40-5 in Homecoming games all-time.
- Mizzou now leads the all-time series with Memphis, 3-1, and has won the last two meetings. Mizzou is 2-1 all-time in games played in Columbia.
- Mizzou has now forced a turnover in 15 straight regular season games dating back to last season. Mizzou tallied its first game with multiple turnovers forced this season on Saturday.
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UP NEXT
Mizzou will continue its homestand next Saturday as it welcomes No. 14 Kentucky to Memorial Stadium on Oct. 27. The game will air at 3 p.m. on SEC Network. For all the latest on Mizzou Football, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on social media (Mizzou Football on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).
