COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Third Saturday in October is well established as one of the more important days annually for Alabama’s football program.
The second Saturday in October proved to be pretty significant when it came to the Crimson Tide getting to next week’s home game against Tennessee still unbeaten in Southeastern Conference play.
Ty Simpson threw for 200 yards and three touchdowns, including the clincher on fourth down to Daniel Hill with 3:16 to go, and eighth-ranked Alabama held off No. 14 Missouri 27-24 on Saturday as the Tide’s winning streak reached five games since a season-opening loss at Florida State.
Alabama running back Jam Miller rushed for a game-high 85 yards before leaving with a concussion in the fourth quarter, and Isaiah Horton and Kevin Riley also had touchdown catches for Alabama (5-1, 3-0 SEC), which has won seven straight meetings with Missouri, a stretch that dates to Sept. 8, 1975.
“Nobody flinched,” Simpson, the redshirt junior and first-year starter, said afterward while scanning over the final statistics. “We’re going to keep punching.”