The box score we could find doesn't give full rushing numbers, so there's no verified line here for Roberts, Hardy or Simmons. The scoring tells the story anyway. Missouri scored in only 2 of the 4 quarters, with 10 in the 1st and 10 in the 3rd, and put up 0 in the 2nd and 0 in the 4th. A team built to grind out the clock needed that run game to be there at the end. It wasn't, and Missouri never scored again after its 3rd-quarter 10.
The 3rd quarter was the closest this game came to a shootout, with each side scoring 10. Missouri went up again, and Texas answered with a 25-yard touchdown catch by Jermaine Bishop Jr. that tied it 20-20 late in the quarter. Bishop isn't a name the preview mentioned, and that matters with Cam Coleman questionable coming in. When Texas needed a big throw, it went to someone other than the receivers everyone was asking about all week.
The 4th quarter belonged to Texas: 14 points scored, 0 allowed. That answers the biggest question from the preview. The concern was that a line missing its left tackle, the same line that gave up 6 sacks to Mississippi State, would get Manning hit all day on the road. Instead, Texas got stronger as the game went on, and its defense held Missouri scoreless in the 2nd and 4th quarters. The partial stats available show Manning efficient rather than explosive, so this wasn't a game he won with volume. Texas won it by outlasting Missouri.
Now the results line up. Texas has won 3 straight, beating Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Missouri, and sits at 7-2 and 4-2 in the SEC. The 3-point losses to Oklahoma and Florida are its only 2 losses. Missouri falls to 6-3 and 3-3. The good news for the Tigers is that this one was tied with 1 quarter to go. The bad news is that both of their losses in this stretch, at Ole Miss and at home against Texas, came against the kind of SEC team they need to beat, and they scored a combined 23 points in those 2 games.
