NCAA Football Result: Missouri vs Arkansas
Missouri Tigers dismantled Arkansas Razorbacks 38-7 to win the Cotton Bowl Tuesday night. Led by Missouri Tigers running back Tony Temple, who rushed for 281 yards and four touchdowns both records in the 72-year history of the Cotton Bowl. “We were upset for a couple of days,” said Missouri Tigers Martin Rucker, Missouri’s All-American tight end. “We just felt we’d deserved, we’d earned to be in the BCS. But the Cotton Bowl is a great bowl and we were honored to be in it.”
Missouri Tigers (12-2) was ranked No. 1 after beating Kansas in the regular-season finale but then lost badly to Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game –so badly that the Jayhawks wound up with an at-large berth into the Orange Bowl.
Missouri Tigers running back Tony Temple cracked the code pretty early, finding no linebackers after he broke the line of scrimmage in the first half. Missouri Tigers running back Tony Temple had three carries of 22 yards, a 38-yarder and a 41-yarder as part of his 159 yards and two touchdowns by halftime.
Missouri Tigers running back Tony Temple pulled a hamstring in the third quarter and missed several series but said he was ready to return about the same time Pinkel heard that Temple was close to the record.
Missouri Tigers running back Tony Temple went back for just one play — a spinning, tackle-breaking 40-yard run into the end zone — and then rode back to the bench on the arms of Daniel and a lineman. The lift was part-celebration, part-transportation because Temple tweaked his hamstring around the 5-yard line.
Arkansas Razorbacks running back Darren McFadden ran 21 times for 105 yards and a touchdown but didn’t play the fourth quarter. The Razorbacks running back Darren McFadden pushed his single-season total to 1,830 yards and his career total to 4,590. Both are school records and second to Herschel Walker in SEC history. Arkansas Razorbacks freshman kicker Alex Tejada came in perfect on kicks of 40 yards or less but missed from 35 and 37. In between, a successful fake punt was wiped out because someone called timeout just before the snap; the Arkansas Razorbacks tried the play again and lost a yard. Then a squib kick to open the second half backfired.
Interim coach Reggie Herring ran about 20 yards asking for a timeout but didn’t get it and a fourth-down pass was dropped in the end zone.
“The way we played, we couldn’t have beat anyone,” said Reggie Herring, who had been defensive coordinator until Houston Nutt stepped down in late November. “We did everything poorly. I’m embarrassed right now.”
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