Missouri stopped No. 17 LSU 4 occasions from the 1-yard line with lower than a minute left to safe a 45-41 upset victory.

LSU appeared destined for the victory after a Terrace Marshall catch bought the Tigers inside a yard of a go-ahead TD with 44 seconds left. However two working performs bought stopped earlier than LSU known as timeout with 22 seconds left. A 3rd-down move was knocked down by Mizzou LB Nick Bolton and Myles Brennan’s fourth-down move to Marshall was deflected by Missouri DB Joshuah Bledsoe.

Misouri QB Connor Bazelak shredded the LSU protection for 406 passing yards and 4 touchdowns. Bazelak was 29-of-34 passing. He had only one extra incompletion than he did passing touchdowns.

Missouri piled up 586 yards of offense on an LSU protection that routinely left receivers vast open. RB Larry Rountree additionally had 119 yards on 18 carries.

LSU’s passing recreation was fairly good too. Brennan was 29-of-48 passing for 430 yards and 4 touchdowns. Three of these went to Marshall, who had 11 catches for 235 yards.

However LSU couldn’t run the ball in opposition to a Missouri line of defense that was lacking key gamers due to optimistic coronavirus assessments and make contact with tracing. LSU had simply 49 speeding yards on 20 carries.

LSU additionally didn’t win the sport regardless of recovering three Missouri fumbles and never turning the ball over itself. These turnovers even became 17 LSU factors.

Missouri didn’t go away. Bazelak was making the primary begin of his profession and was lacking three of his prime 5 vast receivers due to coronavirus protocols. He was unbelievable.

4 completely different gamers caught landing passes and Tauskie Dove led the crew with six catches for 83 yards. Probability Luper — the son of Missouri assistant Curtis Luper — additionally had an enormous 69-yard catch on Missouri’s go-ahead landing drive. Luper was terribly open on the play and helped arrange a five-yard TD move from Bazelak to TE Niko Hea.

LSU is now 1-2. (AP Photograph/L.G. Patterson)

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