Oklahoma-Missouri: LIVE In-Game Observations

John Hoover and Ryan Chapman offer their real-time observations from Faurot Field for the 97th meeting between Oklahoma and Missouri.

Nov 9, 2024; Columbia, Missouri, USA; Oklahoma Sooners tight end Bauer Sharp (10) is congratulated by teammates after a successful fake punt in the first half against the Missouri Tigers at Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images / Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images

COLUMBIA, MO — Sooners on SI offers real-time observations from Faurot Field throughout Saturday's Week 11 matchup between Oklahoma and the No. 24-ranked Missouri Tigers. Newest posts are at the top. Just keep your browser open and refresh often.

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10:19 p.m.

Arnold keeps it, pitches it. A few pitches later, ball ends up out of bounds. That will do it.

No. 24 Mizzou, Oklahoma 23. Sooners have two more games to reach the six-win bowl eligibility.

10:17 p.m.

Arnold goes long for Thompson for what would have put the Sooners well into Mizzou territory, but the Tigers defender makes a great play to bat down the ball. Short pass to Sharp. Fourth-and-5 with eight seconds to go.
CBM

10:16 p.m.

Burks is on his feet. Walking gingerly to his sideline.

10:13 p.m.

Burks takes an absolute shot. ESPN hasn't shown the replay yet, but certainly looked like targeting in real time. Unite in thoughts. He's being tended to but he hasn't moved.

10:09 p.m.

Darn. That'll almost certainly be ball game. Ball froced out of J.A.'s hands, Mizzou's Zion Young scoops it at the 17 and runs untouched into the end zone.

Mizzou 30, Sooners 23 with 30 seconds left in regulation.
CBM

10:04 p.m.

Wease comes down over Peyton Bowen for the 10-yard jump-ball TD. Craig ties it with 1:03 to play.
23-23.

10:02 p.m.

First down, no gain thanks to Stutsman and Kip Lewis.

10:02 p.m.

Mizzou gets it. Thirty-three-yard completion to Luther Burden gets them to the 10 with 1:16 to play.

10:01 p.m.

OK, third-and-16 at the 43. Nobody hold anybody. Nobody look at the zebras the wrong way.

9:59 p.m.

Sooners force an incompletion on third-and-10. . . Officials call a defensive holding on Woodi Washington. Fresh set of downs and ball at the 37-yard line. Bad break.

9:56 p.m.

Really weird play. I guess OU thought it was an incompletion. Mizzou realized it was a fumble (the official call), picked it up and took it, like, 25 yards into Sooners territory.

Official review on the fumble calls it an incompletion. Close call for the Sooners. Third-and-10 coming up.

9:55 p.m.

Takes one play for the Tigers to cross midfield. They're going hurry-up after Mizzou gains 27 yards to cross midfield. Several Sooners missed tackles on that one.

9:49 p.m.

SCOOP AND SCORE.

Billy Bowman Jr. grabs a Mizzou fumble and takes it 40 yards for the score. It looked like Sammy, Dom Williams and Downs were in on the fumbling tackle. Hard to tell who pried it out. OU has the lead again, 23-16 with two minutes left in the ball game. Sooner Magic.
CBM

9:45 p.m.

Oh. My God. Yes, JJF. Yes, Kevin Johns. Yes, whoever contributed to this decision.

Sooners throw a double pass from Arnold to Tatum back to Arnold, who takes it up the left sideline into the end zone.

Schmit's PAT ties it at 16 all. Three minutes and change left to go in this game.
CBM

9:45 p.m.

Sooners cross into the red zone. Third-and-4 from the 18 coming.

9:39 p.m.

Sooners cross midfield, gain first down on third-and-6 and pass midfield in hurry-up offense. Xavier Robinson getting good play, averaging 8.0 yards per gain on four rushes this drive.

9:31 p.m.

Pyne hits Norfleet for a 5-yard TD on third-and-goal.
Tigers lead 16-9 after a false start makes Mizzou's PAT a 25-yarder, leads to a Craig miss wide left. Actually an incredible break for OU, who can tie this game here.

Could be much, much worse with 8:47 left in the game.
CBM

9:30 p.m.

Well. Pyne gets it with his legs on third-and-9. It'll be first-and-goal from the 8.

9:27 p.m.

Mizzou makes first-and-10 inside the red zone. A touchdown here is far from catastrophic but it would be nice to work on a lead next offensive possession. Could be a signature defensive stop that has become a good habit under BV.
CBM

9:26 p.m.

They call on Burks on the crossing route, who makes the snag past the line to gain, takes about four steps then is hit head-on by a Mizzou defender, fumbles. Tigers' possession deep into Sooners territory.

9:20 p.m.

Arnold and co. facing third-and-3 from their own 17-yard line. Timeout Sooners. Something tricky?

9:16 p.m.

Kobie McKinzie snuffs out 'Zou's third-and-7 play at the line of scrimmage, forces punt. Sooners will assume control inside their own 20 trailing a point at the end of the third quarter.
— CBM

9:12 p.m.

Stats ... through (nearly) three quarters:

9:07 p.m.

The Sooners just punted it away after Jacob Jordan couldn’t hang onto a third-down throw from Arnold. 

Arnold is 9-of-17 for 47 yards and has two fumbles and nearly two interceptions.

Somehow, he’s getting outplayed by Mizzou’s Drew Pyne, who is 10-of-18 for 67 yards with a touchdown on a screen pass to Theo Wease.

— JH

9:04 p.m.

Oklahoma just got a prayer answered when safety Daylon Carnell just dropped a sure pick six from Jackson Arnold. The ball went into the air and was caught by Deion Burks for a short gain.

Nightmare averted — for now.

— JH

8:55 p.m.

Theo Wease gets his revenge. 

The former Sooner scores on a 13-yard reception to give the Tigers their first lead of the night. 

That was a 12-play, 59 yard drive by Missouri, which was by far the best possession of the night by Eli Drinkwitz’s offense, to put the home team up 10-9 with 5:43 left in the third quarter. 

— RC 

8:51 p.m.

Mizzou only has 80 yards rushing and is averaging just 3.1 yards per run, so you can’t complain too much about that. But a couple times on the last couple drives, Tiger running backs have just barreled through open lanes in the OU defense. We just haven’t seen very much of that this season.

— JH

8:45 p.m.

Terrible read there by Jackson Arnold on fourth-and-a foot. He handed to Taylor Tatum when the entire Mizzou defense was crashing down on him for a 2-yard loss. Arnold didn’t read the defensive end correctly, but if he had kept it, he’d have had a wide-open field for a massive gain.

— JH

8:41 p.m.

Oklahoma gets the stop out of half time, but concern immediately turns to sophomore safety Peyton Bowen. 

He was clipped as he tried to fair catch the punt, drawing a flag, but it took him a minute to get back up off the turf. 

Bowen jogged off the field under his own power, and OU’s offense will start on the Missouri 49-yard line. 

— RC 

8:20 p.m.

Halftime stats. Not pretty.

OU-Mizzou stats / Mizzou

8:18 p.m.

Incredible. Zach Schmit hits a 56-yard walk-off field goal to give Oklahoma a 9-3 lead at halftime. It's the third-longest FG in school history.

— JH

7:57 p.m.

With two Oklahoma turnovers — fumbles by Denton Guyer teammates Jackson Arnold and Peyton Bowen — the Sooners now lead 6-3 after Blake Craig’s 25-yard field goal.

— JH

7:49 p.m.

OU forces another three-and-out thanks to a holding penalty, a dropped pass and a dropped interception — all on third own.

This game is gonna get weird.

And as I type that, Peyton Bowen fumbles the punt. Missouri football.

This game just got weird.

— JH

7:43 p.m.

After that thunderous stop by Billy Bowman on fourth down, Oklahoma’s offense gets just enough out of the offense to set up another Zach Schmit field goal, this time from 35 yards, and OU leads Mizzou 6-0.

Some odd play calls on that last drive (jet sweep to Bauer Sharp? Seth Littrell is owed an apology for that one, plus Deion Burks gets his first big hit in a while.

Can the OU defense do it again?

— JH

7:36 p.m.

What a play from Billy Bowman. 

Missouri went with a jet sweep on fourth-and-short and Bowman made it all the way across the field and blew up Luther Burden to stop the Tigers short. 

Burden took a bad spill into the OU sideline, and he’s getting medical attention as he hobbles back to his sideline.

— RC 

7:31 p.m.

What an odd quarter of football.

Coming out of the timeout, Zach Schmit will attempt a 40-yard field goal after the Sooners were set up with first-and-goal from the 10. 

But points are points and Schmit took care of business. 

Sooners strike first, up 3-0 with 14:56 left until halftime. 

— RC 

7:27 p.m.

End of one. This thing is tied. Here are the stats:

OU-Mizzou stats / Mizzou

OU-Mizzou stats / Mizzou

7:19 p.m.

What we have here is a game with 31 total offensive yards so far.

And then just like that, Bauer Sharp takes a fourth-down fake punt throw from punter Luke Elzinga for 43 yards.

Elzinga with the fake kick, ran forward and then executed a jump pass. And of course Sharp tried to hurdle his defenders.

First down OU. Crazy.

— JH

7:18 p.m.

Well, the Oklahoma offense moved the ball 27 yards on that drive, but poor execution on first down put the Sooners behind the chains and OU couldn’t dig itself out. 

Or so you thought. 

Venables dialed up the fake punt, and Bauer Sharp caught the ball and ran it all the way down to the 10-yard line, punctuated by a hurdle of Luther Burden. 

Rolling the dice.

— RC 

7:11 p.m.

Oklahoma’s defense bailed Arnold out. 

Eli Drinkwitz elected to punt from the plus-39… and it cleared way out the back of the end zone for a touchback. 

— RC 

7:09 p.m.

Was looking at Arnold’s run through the binoculars and didn’t think he fumbled real-time. We got one quick review in the press box, and then suddenly Missouri had the football. Assuming what Twitter says is correct: it was clearly a fumble.

OU’s defense gets another stop, and Mizzou punts from the OU 39 — and it hits 5 yards deep in the end zone.

Waiting to see if the Oklahoma offense can put something together without Arnold laying the football on the carpet.

— JH

7:06 p.m.

The ruling on the field is a Jackson Arnold fumble. 

He flat-out dropped the ball on the first drive, and then coughs it up at midfield. 

The one thing he can’t do tonight. 

— RC 

7:03 p.m.

What a start for the Oklahoma defense. After Damonic Williams and R Mason Thomas drop Nate Noel for a loss of 3 on second down, Ethan Downs blows up Drew Pyne’s screen pass to Jamal Roberts for a loss of 6.

— JH

7:03 p.m.

Fantastic first possession for Oklahoma’s defense. Damonic Williams got the big tackle for loss on second down, and Ethan Downs blew up the third down attempt at a screen. 

Feels like both offenses are going to have to hit on something vertically to loosen these defenses up. Both defensive units are going to sell out to stop everything to the boundaries early on. 

— RC 

7:01 p.m.

Oklahoma’s starters on offense:

Thomas - Williams - Jackson - Downs 

Lewis - Stutsman - Washington 

Johnson - Bowman - Spears-Jennings - E. Bowen 

— RC 

6:59 p.m.

Well, best I could tell, Jackson Arnold didn’t look at Deion Burks or Jalil Farooq one time on that drive and the Sooners quickly punt.

I’d hate to think these guys have been through all that just to be decoys tonight.

Getting some real Landry Jones at Mizzou in 2010 kind of vibes from Arnold on that first possession — one miss, one ball batted down in the backfield, and then an unforced fumble.

— JH

6:56 p.m.

Oklahoma’s starters on offense:

Howland - Ozaeta - Everett - Nwaiwu - Brown 

Thompson - Sharp - Burks - Farooq

Arnold - Tatum 

— RC 

6:52 p.m.

Missouri won the toss, they elected to defer.

Jackson Arnold time in Columbia. 

— RC 

6:30 p.m.

Speaking of the Missouri student section, how about this brave soul. 

Six rows deep in the Mayfield jersey. The police around the section were having some fun with him pregame. Seemed to be a good sport about it. 

One brave soldier in the Mayfield jersey amidst the Mizzou students 🫡 pic.twitter.com/gMYf5YYMWD

— Ryan Chapman (@_RyanChapman) November 9, 2024

— RC 

6:19 p.m.

As the offensive line warms up, Michael Tarquin is mostly watching. He’s occasionally getting down into a stance and testing his ankle, but not a full warmup by any means. 

Over with the running backs, Gavin Sawchuk is warming up normally.

— RC 

6:16 p.m.

Based on how they are warming up in the end zone, your OU starting line reads as such:

LT: Logan Howland

LG: Heath Ozaeta

C: Troy Everett

RG: Febechi Nwaiwu 

RT: Spencer Brown 

— RC 

6:06 p.m.

Only running back Gavin Sawchuk and right tackle Michael Tarquin were listed as game time decisions on the final availability report. 

Everyone else is a go, including Deion Burks and Jalil Farooq. Both guys looked juiced as the Sooners took the field. 

Also Missouri’s student section is up for this, as expected. Welcomed OU back to Faurot Field about as you would expect. This one’s gonna be fun.

— RC