Sept. 26, 1981 – Away – Faurot Stadium – Columbia, Mo. – Attendance 57,448
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Missouri | 0 | 14 | 20 | 0 | 34 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 05:58 | Tony Blair 26-yard field goal, 4-4, 00:46 |
| Louisville | Missouri | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 9 | 13 |
| Rushing | 3 | 5 |
| Passing | 6 | 7 |
| Penalty | 0 | 1 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 50 | 119 |
| Rushing Attempts | 39 | 56 |
| Average Per Rush | 1.3 | 2.1 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 0 | 5 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 109 | 181 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 11-27-3 | 13-27-0 |
| Average Per Attempt | 4.0 | 6.7 |
| Average Per Completion | 9.9 | 13.9 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 159 | 300 |
| Total offense plays | 66 | 83 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 2.4 | 3.6 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 3-2 | 3-1 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 5-25 | 7-50 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 11-479 | 8-240 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 43.5 | 30.0 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 3-0-0 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| PAT Kicks | 0-0 | 4-5 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| David Hatfield | 3 | 31 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 29 | 10.3 |
| Scedric Moss | 5 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 10 | 3.4 |
| Dean May | 3 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 15 | 3.3 |
| Greg Hickman | 6 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 1.5 |
| Don Craft | 11 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0.2 |
| Pat Patterson | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0.4 |
| Mark Clayton | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 | 0 | -3.0 |
| Scott Gannon | 5 | 6 | 24 | -18 | 0 | 6 | -3.6 |
| Totals | 39 | 114 | 64 | 50 | 0 | 29 | 1.3 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Pat Patterson | 7-16-2 | 54 | 0 | 17 | 2 |
| Scott Gannon | 3-6-0 | 28 | 0 | 17 | 2 |
| Mark Clayton | 1-1-0 | 27 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Dean May | 0-4-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | 11-27-3 | 109 | 0 | 27 | 5 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Jeff Speedy | 3 | 51 | 0 | 27 | ||
| Robert Mitchell | 2 | 20 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Mark Wilson | 1 | 17 | 0 | 17 | ||
| Don Craft | 3 | 15 | 0 | 14 | ||
| Mark Clayton | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | ||
| Scedric Moss | 1 | -3 | 0 | -3 | ||
| Totals | 11 | 109 | 0 | 27 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Mark Blasinsky | 11 | 479 | 43.5 | 53 | ||
| Totals | 11 | 479 | 43.5 | 53 | ||
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Frank Minnifield | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeff Speedy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ellsworth Larkins | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sebastian Curry | 2 | -11 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 3 | -1 | 10 | 4 | 75 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| 1st | 05:58 | 26 | Good |
| 40 | Missed | ||
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Jeff Speedy | 0 | 51 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 78 |
| Frank Minnifield | 0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 48 |
| David Hatfield | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Robert Mitchell | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Don Craft | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Mark Wilson | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Scedric Moss | 17 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Dean May | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ellsworth Larkins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Greg Hickman | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Mark Clayton | -3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Pat Patterson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sebastian Curry | 0 | 0 | 0 | -11 | 0 | -11 |
| Scott Gannon | -18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -18 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Don Craft 1-0, Sebastian Curry 1-1, Scott Gannon 1-1 Missouri – 3-1 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| Jay Trautwein | 3 | 8 | 11 | 1.0-11 | 2.0-12 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Anthony Williams | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ellsworth Larkins | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tom Blair | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mike Cruz | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mike Trainor | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sebastian Curry | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Joe Kader | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lamar Evans | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gene Hagan | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jerome McDade | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frank Minnifield | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Roger Clay | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fred Blackmon | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dick Collage | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Courtney Jeter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Darrell Wimberly | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Greg Jones | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.0-6 | 2.0-12 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| David Hatfield | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tom Long | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Leon Williams | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mike Botts | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tom Moore | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| John Ayers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Robert Wilson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 29 | 90 | 119 | 2.0-17 | 10.0-31 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
John Ayers, Fred Blackmon, Tom Blair, Tony Blair, Mark Blasinsky, Mike Botts, Roger Clay, Mark Clayton, Dick Collage, Don Craft, Mike Cruz, Sebastian Curry, Phil Ellis, Lamar Evans, Scott Gannon, Gene Hagan, David Hatfield, Greg Hickman, Jeff Hortert, Courtney Jeter, Dwayne Johnson, Greg Jones, Joe Kader, Ellsworth Larkins, Tom Long, Dean May, Jerome McDade, Frank Minnifield, Robert Mitchell, Tom Moore, Scedric Moss, Pat Patterson, Jeff Speedy, Mike Trainor, Jay Trautwein, Anthony Williams, Leon Williams, Mark Wilson, Robert Wilson, Darrell Wimberly