Texas A&M 25, Missouri 19

Saturday, October 14

College Station

2:30 PM

Texas A&M

6-1 , 2-1

(#19) Missouri

6-1 , 2-1

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Missouri

Texas A&M

Oct 14, 2006 | Football

Box Score

By: Texas A&M Athletics

October 14, 2006

Jorvorskie Lane ran for 127 yards and a touchdown and Texas A&M denied No. 19 Missouri its best start in 46 years by beating the Tigers 25-19 on Saturday.

Stephen McGee was 19-for-23 for 183 yards and a touchdown for the Aggies, who beat a ranked opponent at home for the first time in six tries under coach Dennis Franchione.

The Aggies (6-1, 2-1 Big 12) also snapped a three-game losing streak to Big 12 opponents at Kyle Field.

Chase Daniel completed 21 of 29 for 295 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown pass to Will Franklin in the second quarter, for the Tigers (6-1, 2-1).

Missouri, which last started 7-0 in 1960, was allowing only 73 yards rushing per game, but the Aggies ran for 180 and dominated time of possession, 41:30 to 18:30. Freshman Michael Goodson ran for 65 yards and TD for A&M.

The Tigers fumbled four times in the opening half and the first one robbed them of a sure touchdown.

On the game's third play, Daniel found Will Franklin wide open behind the defense, but as Franklin trotted toward the end zone, freshman cornerback Jordan Peterson sneaked up and punched the ball loose. It bounced out of the end zone and after a replay review, officials gave the ball to the Aggies on a touchback.

Chad Schroeder, A&M's leading receiver and a former high school quarterback, threw a 40-yard pass to Kerry Franks to give the Aggies a first-and-goal. The Aggies settled for Layne Neumann's 23-yard field goal, putting the Tigers behind for the first time this season.

Missouri's Jared Perry caught a deflected pass for a 26-yard gain to set up Tony Temple's 5-yard TD run with 3:21 left in the first quarter.

Lane's 1-yard touchdown gave Texas A&M a 10-7 lead late in the first quarter.

The Tigers led 14-10 when Temple fumbled with 7:19 left in the half. McGee threw a short TD pass to fullback Chris Alexander three minutes later to put the Aggies back in front.

Aided by two personal fouls on A&M defensive tackle Kellen Heard, the Tigers drove for Jeff Wolfert's tying 39-yard field goal just before halftime.

A&M got the ball to start the second half, but McGee fumbled a snap and fell on it in the end zone for a Missouri safety that made it 19-17.

McGee went 8-for-8 on A&M's next drive and Goodson scored on a 2-yard run. McGee dived for the 2-point conversion and the Aggies led 25-19.

The Tigers went three-and-out twice and had the ball for only 2:35 of the third quarter. Lane chewed up much of the time with short, punishing runs. He threw a block to help Goodson break an 18-yard run late in the quarter.

Missouri drove to the A&M 4 in the fourth quarter, but the Aggies tackled holder Brad Ekwereku on a fake field-goal try and took over. On the Tigers' last possession, Temple took a pitch from Daniel on fourth down, but was stopped 1 yard shy of a first down with 3:18 to go.

A&M had lost four straight games to ranked opponents, dating to a 36-20 win over then-No. 15 Oklahoma State in October 2004. The Aggies' last win over a ranked opponent at Kyle Field was a 30-26 win over then-top-ranked Oklahoma in November 2002.

Texas A&M Postgame Notes

The Aggies' 15-play, 74-yard drive that took 8:40 off the clock in the first quarter was a season high for plays and time of possession. (previous highs were 14, three times vs. Texas Tech, and 7:11 vs. Texas Tech).
The Aggies took 3-0 and 10-7 leads in the first quarter. Missouri had not trailed at any point in 2006 prior to today. Missouri also had a 72-3 point advantage in the first quarter prior to today.
Stephen McGee's 67-yard completion to Kerry Franks was a career long. His previous long was a 64-yarder to Franks in the Louisiana Tech game.
Kerry Franks had 115 receiving yards on three catches, which were both season highs. It was the second 100-yard receiving day of his career.
McGee made his first career catch with a 12-yard reception that came when McGee's pass was batted into the air at the line of scrimmage. With the pass and catch, McGee has now used 16 different receivers this season, which matches a school record.
The do-it-all McGee also logged his first career punt - a 38-yard quick kick that rolled into the endzone.
True freshman Mike Goodson had a career-high 15 carries for 65 yards against Missouri. His previous high was nine carries (for 19 yards) vs. Army. It was his second most rushing yards behind last week's 79 yards (8 carries) vs. Kansas.
A&M converted 9-of-15 third downs (.600). For the season, A&M has converted 50-of-95 (.502). Missouri was 1-of-8 on third down conversions.
A&M won the possession battle, controlling the ball for 41:30 to Missouri's 18:30.
Jorvorskie Lane rushed for a season-high 127 yards and tied his career-best with 28 carries. Lane rushed for 139 yards last year against Oklahoma State and now has four career 100-yard rushing games. He also had 28 totes last year against Kansas State. Lane added one touchdown run, giving him 14 for the season. The school record is 19 by Joel Hunt in 1927. Lane's effort today was the first 100-yard game surrendered by the Missouri defense this season.
Missouri had three turnovers (all fumbles) to none by the Aggies. Under Dennie Franchione, A&M is 16-1 when it wins the turnover battle.
The win against the 19th-ranked Tigers is the first for Dennis Franchione against a ranked team at Kyle Field. Franchione's 2004 team posted a 36-20 victory at No. 15 Oklahoma State. A&M's last win against a ranked team at home came in 2002 when the Aggies beat top-ranked Oklahoma, 30-26.
A&M limited the Tigers to a season-low 74 rushing yards.
A&M quarterback Stephen McGee completed 19-of-23 passes for 183 yards and one touchdown. His .826 accuracy is the best of his career. The A&M record is 19-of-21 (.904) by Gary Kubiak against Arkansas in 1981.
Today's 12th Man was Nick LaMantia, a walkon sophomore from Mission, Texas. It was the sixth 12th Man assignment of the season for LaMantia. Game captains were LaMantia, Chris Harrington, Stephen McGee and Kirk Elder.

Missouri Notes

PRE-GAME

Mizzou is looking for its first 7-0 start since 1960...
Mizzou is looking for its first 3-0 start to conference play since 1998, when it started 3-0 - the only time since the inception of the Big 12 Conference (1996) that MU has started Big 12 play 3-0...
Mizzou is looking to win its first 3 road games of a season since 1980, when MU won its first 3 road games at San Diego State, Oklahoma State and Kansas State...

1ST QUARTER

Mizzou won the toss and elected to receive, meaning the Tigers had the ball for the game's opening possession for all seven games this season...
A&M got the game's first score on a 23-yard field goal at the 5:30 mark of the quarter, putting an end to MU's streak of never having trailed on the season. Coming into the game, MU had led for 331 minutes and 50 seconds of its previous 360 total minutes of play...
WR Tommy Saunders completed the first pass of his career when he took a lateral pass from QB Chase Daniel, and he shoveled a pass ahead to TE Chase Coffman, for a gain of 11 yards...
MU got the lead back at the 3:21 mark when TB Tony Temple scored on a 5-yard TD run to make it 7-3. It was Temple's 3rd TD of the season, and his 3rd in the last 2 games, after he got his first 2 of the season last week at Texas Tech...
A&M responded with a TD drive of their own to take a 10-7 lead with :24 seconds left. A&M's 1-yard TD run is the 1st TD scored against Missouri in the 1st quarter this season. MU had come into today's game outscoring opponents by a 72-3 mark in the 1st quarter...

2ND QUARTER

Daniel hit WR Will Franklin on a 38-yard TD pass at the 13:53 mark to put MU back up, 14-10. It was the 15th passing TD for the season by Daniel, inching him closer to the MU single-season record of 18 set by Terry McMillan in 1969. It was Franklin's 5th receiving TD of the season...
Daniel hit his first 8 passes of the day, for 199 yards and the 1 TD, before throwing an incompletion with 8:20 left. He followed by rushing for 10 yards and a 1st down on the next play...
A&M recovered a Tony Temple fumble on the Tiger 23-yardline, and converted it into 7 points to take a 17-14 lead with 4:05 left. That turnover was MU's 3rd of the game that A&M turned into 10 points, one week after Mizzou forced 5 Texas Tech turnovers and converted them into 28 points...
MU responded with a game-tying field goal just before half, as PK Jeff Wolfert connected on a 39-yarder with :42 seconds remaining. It was Wolfert's 6th consecutive FG since missing a 36-yarder in the 4th quarter against Ole Miss in game #2. Counting his 2 made PATs in the half, Wolfert has now made 24 consecutive kicks overall (6 FGs, 18 PATs), dating back to his FG miss...
WR Will Franklin had 3 catches for 114 yards and 1 TD in the half, including a 65-yarder that was stripped from his arms as he was heading in for an apparent TD on the game's opening possession. It is the 2nd game this season that Franklin went over the 100-yard mark for receiving yardage, with the other being a 4-catch, 138-yard, 2-TD game in the opener against Murray State - with all of those numbers coming in the 1st half.

3RD QUARTER

MU got a safety on the opening possession of the quarter as A&M QB Stephen McGee covered a fumble in his own endzone after a shotgun snap went through his hands. It was MU's 2nd safety of the season, with the other coming on a blocked punt out of the endzone in the opener against Murray State (LB Sean Weatherspoon block)...
This is the 2nd straight game that MU has scored a safety against A&M, as in the last meeting in 2003, A&M's punter had his knee touch in the endzone as he fielded a low snap on their first possession of the game...
The safety was MU's first non-special teams safety since earning one in 2002 against Kansas...
P Adam Crossett boomed a career-long 79-yard punt in the 3rd quarter that was killed at the A&M 4-yardline. The punt was just three yards shy of the MU record for longest punt, which was an 82-yarder by Jeff Brockhaus against Kansas State on 10-25-80...

Missouri Postgame Quotes

HEAD COACH GARY PINKEL: (on fake field goal) "We were three-and-out twice and we went down and thought we had them. We thought we were in a good position to go for it and it didn't work. We felt real good about it and we worked on it in practice. It's a great decision if it works. We thought we could get it. We were lucky to have the game tied at the half with the turnovers that we had. It's difficult against a good football team to have those kind of turnovers. You knock yourself out of three drives. Every player could have done something different. Look at a fumble here or this play here, every single player could have done something different so we could win. It doesn't come down to one particular play. I thought we competed hard. I don't think we played our best game. I thought we made a lot of errors. Our kids worked hard and practiced hard, but we did not play our best game. If you are going to win against good people, week in and week out, you have to bring your best game every week."

QUARTERBACK CHASE DANIEL: "Any time you lose, it's frustrating. The good thing about it is the only guys that matter are the 80 guys in the locker room. We just want to go in, get better and get healthy. We had three turnovers. I fumbled once. Those are just dumb mistakes. We have to practice all week and get better. We've been really good with our red zone offense lately. You have to respect Coach Pinkel's decision (on the fake field goal). We'd been practicing it all week and it looked good. (On time of possession battle) We want the ball as much as you can. We had a couple of three-and-outs in the second half, but that's what they do. They run the ball."