@MizzouFootball Pitches Senior Day Shutout, Beats Arkansas 38-0

Friday, November 23

Columbia, Mo.

1:30 p.m.

University of Missouri

8-4 , 4-4

Arkansas

2-10 , 0-8

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@MizzouFootball Pitches Senior Day Shutout, Beats Arkansas 38-0

11/23/2018 5:04:00 PM | Football

Box Score Post Game Notes

Two second quarter TOs lead to TDs; Mizzou tallies eight regular season wins for 17th time in program history

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Football finished the regular season 8-4 (4-4 SEC) after earning a dominant, 38-0, win over SEC West rival Arkansas Friday afternoon on a rain-soaked Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium.

On senior day, a day when the program's 19 seniors were honored while playing their final home game, it was Mizzou's defense that was dominant from start to finish. The Tigers posted 8.0 tackles for loss, including a season-high 5.0 sacks, 4.0 of which came in the first half. Mizzou limited the Razorbacks to 187 total yards, including just 52 on the ground. It was Mizzou's first shutout over an FBS team since Nov. 28, 2010, against Iowa State.

Mizzou senior QB Drew Lock, playing in his final home game, went 16-for-25 for 221 yards and two TDs while rushing for two more scores. He exited the game in the fourth quarter to a standing-ovation from the crowd.

Mizzou has finished the regular season 8-4, marking the 17^th time in program history that Mizzou has finished with eight wins in the regular season. Head coach Barry Odom is the first Mizzou head coach to win at least seven games in two of his first three seasons since Warren Powers (1978-80).

TURNING POINT

Mizzou broke the game open in the second quarter, highlighted by a pair of key defensive plays. Senior Terez Hall picked off Arkansas QB Ty Storey to set Mizzou up at the Razorback 35-yard line. The offense turned that into a three-yard TD run by Lock, extending Mizzou's lead to 14-0. On Arkansas' next possession, Jordan Elliott tallied his second sack of the afternoon, forcing a Storey fumble, which caromed into the end zone before Akial Byers jumped on it for a score as Mizzou took a three-score lead.

Mizzou took a 28-0 lead into the half, which was Arkansas' largest halftime deficit since 2014 (38-6 to No. 10 Georgia) and largest to an unranked team since 2000 (42-14 vs. Tennessee). Mizzou came out in the second half and scored on its first possession, a 67-yard strike from Lock to Emanuel Hall, and the Tigers ran away with the game from there.

TOP TIGERS

Mizzou RS sophomore DT Jordan Elliott tallied his first career sacks Friday, finishing the game with 3.0 sacks and a forced fumble that was recovered in the end zone for a Mizzou TD by DE Akial Byers.
Elliott's 3.0 sacks were the most in a single game since Marcel Frazier did it against Arkansas back in 2016.
Senior LB Terez Hall posted an interception and a sack as part of a dominant Mizzou defensive outing.
Senior QB Drew Lock went 16-for-25 for 221 yards and a two TDs while rushing for two more TDs on the ground.
Sophomore RB Larry Rountree III rushed for 119 yards on 29 carries, eclipsing the 1,000-yard mark.
Senior WR Emanuel Hall caught six passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns.
Freshman DE Trajan Jeffcoat tallied his first career sack.

NOTES

Mizzou now leads the all-time series with Arkansas, 7-3, and has won three straight in the series, including four of five meetings since Mizzou joined the SEC. Mizzou head coach Barry Odom has not lost to Arkansas, Mizzou's permanent cross-divisional rival, since becoming Mizzou's head coach.
Mizzou now has a 10-2 record in 12 November games played under third-year head coach Barry Odom. Mizzou has won nine straight November games dating back to 2016's season finale vs. Arkansas, a 28-24 win.
Mizzou is 19-5 in November games dating back to November.
Mizzou has won four of its last five regular season finales, dating back to 2013. The only loss during that span came in 2015 at Arkansas.
Mizzou finishes the regular season 8-4 overall, marking just the 12^th time since 1960 and first time under Coach Odom. It is just the 17^thtime in 128 football seasons that Mizzou has finished with eight regular season wins.
Barry Odom is the first Mizzou head coach to win at least seven games in two of his first three seasons since Warren Powers, who did so in each of his first three seasons in 1978-80.
In each of the last two seasons, Mizzou started 0-4 in league play and rallied to finish with a 4-4 mark in SEC games. Prior to the last two seasons, that had never happened in the SEC's history.
Mizzou has won at least seven games in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2013-14 when it won back-to-back SEC East titles.

UP NEXT

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