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The 25th ranked Mizzou Tigers were ferocious at Faurot Field, scoring 35 straight points to defeat the number eight Florida Gators 45-17 on Saturday, Oct. 3, claiming their first regular season win over a top ten ranked opponent in 13 seasons.<\/p>\n
Florida would score first on a 20-yard field goal, responded in kind on Mizzou\u2019s first drive with a Blake Craig boot from 32 yards. The Tigers would take the lead on their next possession when Austin Simmons connected with Donovan Olugbode from 47 yards. After the Gators tied the game back up, Mizzou let loose their homecoming fireworks to take the lead for good with Simmons\u2019 over-the-shoulder catch in the back of the endzone with just over two minutes before halftime.\u00a0 The Tigers would get one more possession before the break, where Craig would score another field goal from 50 yards.<\/p>\n
The second half was all Mizzou, as the defense was able to contain a Florida offense that stunned Ole Miss last week, while the Tigers continued to drive. Jamal Roberts would reach the end zone with scores of five yards and one. The second score was set up by a 77-yard dash at the end of the third quarter after he appeared to have been held to no gain. On the next drive, he would finally get his big scoring run, going 80 yards to the house.<\/p>\n
Roberts completed the game with 211 yards on 24 carries and three scores, while Austin Simmons went 23-of-30 for 340 yards and two touchdown passes. Cayden Lee led the receiving front with eight catches for 110 yards. Florida was limited to just 42 yards on the ground and 283 in the air, as the Tigers forced the Gators to punt eight times. The Tigers also had a pair of sacks among their 11 tackles for loss.<\/p>\n
Mizzou are now 4-1 with a 1-1 mark in the SEC. The Tigers will host Texas A&M next Saturday, with kickoff now scheduled for 11 a.m. Pregame coverage begins at 9 a.m. on KMMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25th ranked Mizzou Tigers were ferocious at Faurot Field, scoring 35 straight points to defeat the number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-418619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}