COLUMBIA, Mo. — The most memorable defensive play of Missouri’s 2020 football season — there weren’t many — not only punctuated Eli Drinkwitz’s first victory but gave Joshuah Bledsoe a signature moment for his college career.
Louisiana State ball, fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line, just a few seconds left in a one-score game. Those three feet of grass would determine which team of Tigers would walk off Faurot Field with a win.
Bledsoe, Mizzou’s senior free safety and three-year starter, was covering lethal slot receiver Terrace Marshall, who gave Bledsoe a hard shove off the snap, then watched his defender punch the ball away to clinch the victory.