COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the first time in the last two seasons, Missouri lost a one-score football game.
The Tigers had won their last eight through all sorts of plays: 61-yard field goals, scoop-and-scores, late-game defensive stands.
“I think it’s just all three phases of the game needing to work together to find ways to win and being dialed in what you’re doing in those phases and not letting the moment be too big for you,” MU coach Eli Drinkwitz said of what’s needed for those wins.
That recipe was evidently lacking Saturday evening, when defensive breakdowns and missed offensive opportunities haunted No.