After Missouri scored on a 45-yard touchdown pass from Drew Lock to Jalen Knox on its first possession game, the Tigers bizarrely attempted an onside kick. The ball from Tucker McCann failed to travel ten yards, and South Carolina scored three players later to tie the game.
The debate raged about whether it as a gutsy or silly play call. In the end, it turns out it wasn’t the play call at all.
“That was not — he mis-hit the ball,” Barry Odom told SEC Network reporter Kris Budden. “I know it looked like an onside, we were trying to bloop it down to the right side, mis-hit it and, obviously, bad situation.