Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Champions! No. 9 Football Takes Down No. 7 Ohio State
The No. 9 Missouri Tigers (11-2) rode their defense for nearly three quarters until the offense could find its footing against the No. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes (11-2). But then two long back-to-back touchdown drives propelled Mizzou to a 14-3 victory in the 88th Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic and just the fourth 11-victory season in school history. Trailing 3-0 with 4:25 remaining in the third quarter, the Tigers mounted an eight-play, 95-yard drive that ended with a seven-yard touchdown run by Cody Schrader on which he drug two OSU defenders into the endzone. The big play of the drive was a 49-yard play-action pass from Brady Cook to Marquis Johnson . After forcing an OSU punt, the Tigers took over at their own nine-yard line, and marched 91 yards to another score. The drive started with a 30-yard pass to Theo Wease Jr. and followed with a heavy dose of Schrader runs and a key fourth-down run by Cook to get into the red zone. Then, Cook zipped a seven-yard TD pass to Luther Burde