After Vanderbilt received an unnecessary roughness call for shoving wide receiver Mehki Miller, the Tigers had their first penalty of the game. A holding call on Cam’Ron Johnson cost the Tigers 10 yards in the middle of the second quarter, a drive that would later result in Missouri’s second touchdown.

No. 7 Missouri survived an upset bid from Vanderbilt with a 30-27 win in double overtime win in both teams' SEC conference opener. Missouri kicker Blake Craig redeemed himself after missing three field goals in regulation by nailing a 37-yard go-ahead kick,

MU answered Vanderbilt’s touchdown with one of its own — the 20-yard catch-and-run by Burden — but the Tigers’ defense, on the ropes for a second straight drive, needed a big play. On third-and-3 on Missouri’s 4-yard line, Pavia kept the ball and found no place to go but backward.