No. 19 Virginia held off Missouri and reached 11 wins for the primary time in class historical past with a 13-7 victory within the Gator Bowl on Saturday night time in Jacksonville, Fla.
Chandler Morris accomplished 25 of 38 passes for 198 yards, Harrison Waylee rushed for the go-ahead landing and the Cavaliers (11-3) managed the clock to safe their first bowl win since 2018.
The Tigers (8-5) scored a landing on the sport’s opening drive however had been blanked the remainder of the best way to fall to 0-5 this season towards ranked opponents.
Missouri All-American Ahmad Hardy ran for 89 yards on 15 carries. With 1,649 yards, he broke the Missouri single-season document of 1,627 set by Cody Schrader in 2023.
True freshman Matt Zollers began with Beau Pribula coming into the switch portal and managed 101 yards on 12-of-22 passing with an interception.
Virginia opened the second half with a 19-play, 75-yard landing drive to take its first lead at 10-7. The Cavaliers transformed two fourth downs and took 10:07 off the clock, capped by Waylee’s 2-yard run.
Virginia received the ball again on an interception by Emmanuel Karnley and Will Bettridge’s 39-yard subject purpose prolonged the result in 13-7 late within the third quarter.
Missouri started its closing drive with 1:33 left at its personal 18 with no timeouts. Zollers accomplished passes of 11, 14, 7 and 24 yards to achieve the Virginia 21. On fourth-and-10 with eight seconds left, Zollers needed to come off the sector after hitting his head on the bottom. Stroll-on Brett Brown’s move into the tip zone was damaged up by Devin Neal.
The Cavaliers transformed 13 of 23 third downs and two of 4 fourth downs and dominated time of possession, 38:34 to 21:26.
The Tigers solely transformed 3 of 12 third down makes an attempt and failed on all three fourth down efforts.
Hardy broke off a 43-yard run on the sport’s opening drive. Two performs later, Jamal Roberts scored on a 5-yard rush for a fast 7-0 lead that turned out to be the Tigers’ solely factors of the sport.
Bettridge had a 42-yard subject purpose early within the second quarter.
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