Trailing 24-20 about a minute left in the game, defender Blaine Gabbert found wide receiver TJ Moe in a trilateral format. Aztec tacklers converged to stop playing for a 5-yard gain, but a quick stutter on Mo and block the receiver Jerrell Jackson has sent 2 dives in one another.
As they struggled, Moe was not there. Sophomore put Missouri up 27-24 with a 68-yard touchdown and the Tigers’ defense stopped SDSU on his drive.
“We were a little out of sync most of the game,” said Moe. “But we finally hit the one there in the end.”
Missouri controlled the game until the middle of the fourth quarter. Towed 20.14 about 11 minutes left in the game, SDSU was supported by its 7-yard line.
Her drive looked hopeless.
Just Aztec running back Ronnie Hillman on his second down run up the middle. Freshman was arrested on the line for what seems, no gain, he disappeared into a pile, but he does not fall apart.
About half a moment later and Hillman appeared in the open field, racing to the end zone. Missouri defensive back Kevin Rutland chased him down at the 20-yard line tigers “, but he could not make a shoestring decide.
Hillman completed the 93-yard touchdown run and gave SDSU its first lead at 21-20 games.
On the next drive Gabbert led tigers in Aztec territory, but threw the interception on third and 17 from the 41-yard line.
Missouri held the Aztecs to the ball on the next drive, resulting in score 24-20 with 1:58 left.
Take 2 for Gabbert? Same result.
He picked up again, this time a 37-yard line of Missouri, but the Tigers defense came on the field and forced the San Diego 3-and-out, creating a winner Mo.
“They never bent,” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said of his players. “They just all assume that they have not had a chance. The defense of our opportunity to have a chance to win.”
As lightning flashed in all directions above the Stadium for most of the game, which Missouri did on the field is pretty boring.
Tigers finished the game with 440 yards of offense, but only 5 of 16 on third down conversions and turned the ball three times.
“When you’re not playing well and you win the game, there are things to learn,” said Pinkel.
In the first half, Missouri was in the end zone on first and final drives. What happened between them is not so good.
Gabbert led Tigers to methodical and efficient opening drive. They went 80 yards in 9 plays, and Associate Tailback De’Vion Moore capped it with a 17-yard touchdown run.
Aztecs corresponds Missouri with 78-Yard Drive own, but they were unable to reach the end zone again until their final possession of the half.
Ball Grant Ressel gave Missouri 10-7 lead at the end of the first quarter, and made it 17-7 with Gabbert 11-yard touchdown run with a minute remaining in the half.
But before Missouri can go to the locker room from the time Hillman broke a 75-yard touchdown.
Missouri opened its lead from a slightly different view of Russell in the third quarter, bringing the score 20-7. The Aztecs did not score again until the fourth quarter, when Hillman broke a 93-yard run.
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