COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Missouri Tigers came to the Southeastern Conference’s other Columbia as favorites for the first time this season. They played like it for the game’s first half Saturday at South Carolina.
Then the second half lived up to 2020’s pledge to make nothing easy.
On the field for their first game in three weeks and with a roster depleted by injuries COVID-19 contact tracing, the Tigers outlasted South Carolina 17-10 in a battle of attrition.
Players were missing. Coaches were missing. As always in the Year of COVID, the fans were missing. Just 13,603 were stationed around Williams-Brice Stadium.