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No. 16 Tigers Rally for Double-OT Victory at Auburn
10/18/2025 11:16:00 PM | Football
Mizzou improves to 6-1 with 23-17 comeback win at Auburn.
In his first career road start, Beau Pribula ran for a 3-yard touchdown in double overtime, followed by another stand from his defense to give the No. 16 Missouri Tigers a 23-17 victory over Auburn on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama.
The victory avenged Mizzou's overtime loss at Auburn in 2022, evened the series record at 3-3, marked Mizzou's 22nd straight over an unranked opponent and was the Tigers' 14th win when trailing in the fourth quarter in the last three seasons. The Tigers improved to 7-1 all-time in games that go into multiple overtimes.
With its sixth win of the season, Mizzou secured bowl eligibility and improved to 6-1 overall and 2-1 in Southeastern Conference play. Auburn fell to 3-4 and 0-4 in the SEC.
"What a gutsy win," Mizzou coach Eli Drinkwitz said. "Incredibly proud of the staff and players. For them to keep fighting — it was really, really ugly — but they just kept fighting, kept fighting. Then obviously in overtime, I thought our defense was just dominant."
Missouri fought from behind in the fourth quarter to tie the score at 17-17 on a 3-yard touchdown run by Ahmad Hardy, his second rushing TD of the game and 11th of the season, after Auburn committed two 15-yard penalties and Pribula completed a 27-yard pass to Donovan Olugbode, who was MU's leading receiver with five receptions for 69 yards.
Defensive end Zion Young led Mizzou's relentless defensive front with two of the Tigers' five sacks.
The visiting Tigers had a chance to win the game on their last possession of regulation after marching 61 yards from their own 8-yard line, but a last-ditch pass was intercepted by Jay Crawford. They had another chance in the first overtime, after Alex McPherson missed a 50-yard field goal for Auburn – his third missed FG of the game. But Robert Meyer's 38-yard field goal attempt sailed over the top of the left upright and sent the game to the second extra period.
That set up Mizzou at the 25-yard line for the second time for Pribula, who completed 23 of 40 passes for 252 yards, to complete a 12-yard pass to Kevin Coleman Jr., to run for 6 yards to the 7-yard line, Jamal Roberts to run for 6 to the 1, before he lost 2 yards to the 3, and then Pribula closed the deal.
After Pribula's go-ahead score, the Mizzou defense stuffed the Auburn offense, allowing the home-team Tigers to net only 6 yards on four plays.
Auburn opened the scoring with a 12-play, 75-yard drive on its first possession, with quarterback Jackson Arnold scoring on a 1-yard run.
After a three-and-out by Mizzou, Toriano Pride Jr. intercepted an Arnold pass at the Auburn 31-yard line, and the Tigers turned it into a 24-yard field goal by Meyer to make the score 7-3 with 1:44 left in the first quarter.
Chris McClellan sacked Arnold for a loss of 7 yards, forcing an Auburn 3-and-out, and Mizzou took over and drove 65 yards to a two-yard Hardy touchdown run off left tackle to take a 10-7 lead.
Both teams missed scoring chances late in the second quarter. Mizzou drove deep into Auburn territory, but Pribula was intercepted by Kayin Lee who wrestled the ball away from Joshua Manning at the 7-yard line. The home team Tigers marched down the field but QB sacks by Josiah Trotter and Sterling Webb forced Auburn to attempt a 40-yard field goal that was missed by McPherson and MU took a 10-7 lead into the locker room at halftime.
McPherson missed another field goal on Auburn's first possession of the 3rd quarter, doinking a 38-yarder off the right upright. But Auburn took the lead with an 86-yard drive late in the third quarter, with Omar Mabson II scoring on a 1-yard run that gave the Tigers a 14-10 lead.
They added to the lead on their next possession, getting a 23-yard run from Jeremiah Cobb and a 37-yard pass from Arnold to Cam Coleman, but the drive stalled and McPherson kicked a 22-yard field goal to widen the Auburn lead to 17-10.
But that was before Mizzou's fourth-quarter heroics tied the game and forced overtime.
UP NEXT
The Tigers continue on the road, traveling to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Game time on Saturday, Oct. 25 will be either 2:30 p.m. CT on ESPN.
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