Missouri scored with 9:12 left in the game to take their first lead at 22-21, and we had done diddly on offense in the 2nd half. At that point, it had that classic feeling we've all experienced more times than we can count: a game that just slips away from us in the end.
Somehow, though, the offense which had been asleep the second half, with the game on the brink, woke up and responded for an 8 play 75 yard TD to take the lead back 27-22 with 5:04 left in the game. At this point it feels a bit like "ok, just get a defensive stop, get the ball back and run this thing out." But, not to be as our D just didn't have it and Mizzou calmly marched 66 yards to score a TD and take the lead back 30-27 with 1:10 left in the game. It felt like a backbreaker and it just seemed all too poetic and fitting that we would lose by 3 when we had given away 3 points early in the 3rd quarter. It just felt like fate at that point.
Now, be honest, did any of you see us going 70 yards in 47 seconds to score the decisive TD? I can count on one hand, maybe just 2 or 3 fingers, the times in my life when I've seen us be clutch in a moment like that.
PFF grades: South Carolina's win over Missouri (GC members!)