Ahmad Hardy breaks loose for a long touchdown run in Mizzou’s win over Louisiana on Saturday. (Photo: Terrance Williams)

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Cedric Williams
Senior Editor

COLUMBIA, MO — On a super hot day at Faurot Field, the University of Missouri football team looked even hotter in a 52-10 win over the visiting University of Louisiana.

Missouri rushers combined for 427 yards and dominated the action from start to finish in what proved to be the Tigers’ third straight win this season and the team’s 12th straight win at home.

Sophomore running back Ahmad Hardy led the way for Mizzou, with a career-high 250 rushing yards and three touchdowns. It was the third straight game Hardy went over 100 yards and he currently leads the nation in rushing with 462 yards on 57 carries.

Freshman Marquise Davis also went over 100 yards. He had a career-best 113 yards and scored a touchdown in the Mizzou victory.

Mizzou’s Ahmad Hardy had 250 yards and now leads the nation in rushing, following the Tigers’ win over Louisiana on Saturday. (Photo: Terrance Williams)

With the victory, Missouri moved to 3-0 heading into next Saturday’s Southeastern Conference opener against No. 11-ranked South Carolina. The Gamecocks play Vanderbilt later tonight and the outcome of that game will determine what time next week’s game with the Tigers kicks off. The league office announced this week that next week’s game will either be at 6 p.m. and air on ABC, or it will kick off at 6:30 p.m. and air on ESPN.

On this Saturday, Mizzou ballcarriers rushed for a combined 427 yards, which is the first time under Drinkwitz that the Tigers have surpassed 400 yards rushing and the first time any Missouri team has done that since a Tiger victory over Tennessee in 2017.

For the game, the Tigers outgained ULL 606-121. Outside of one long touchdown run, Mizzou smothered ULL’s offense, holding the Sun Belt Conference program to 4 yards through the air on just 2-of-14 passing. It marked the fewest passing yards the Tigers have allowed in a game since Oklahoma didn’t gain a yard against Mizzou in 1976.

Hardy got the scoring going early with a 7-yard touchdown scamper for a 7-0 lead to close out a 10-play, 73-yard drive.

An early setback turned into the Tigers’ favor midway through the first quarter when Louisiana’s Jalen Clark seemingly stripped the ball loose from wideout Marquis Johnson as he tried to stretch the ball across the goal line.

Louisiana’s Maurion Eleam returned the recovered fumble 99 yards for an improbable defensive touchdown, but a replay review ruled that Johnson had broken the plane of the goal line, good for a Mizzou touchdown. The 11-yard scoring toss was Pribula’s sixth TD throw of the season.

Following another defensive stop by the Tigers, Pribula called his own number from an empty backfield, knifing 14 yards through the Louisiana defense for his third rushing touchdown of the season, pushing the Tigers’ lead to 21-0.

QB Beau Pribula had two touchdown passes and a touchdown run in Mizzou’s 52-10 win over Louisiana on Saturday. (Photo: Terrance Williams)

Pribula wasn’t done. Early in the second quarter, he slipped out of a sack deep in the backfield in time to find running back Jamal Roberts open in the flat. Roberts slithered his way through the Louisiana secondary for a 29-yard catch and run to the end zone, his first career touchdown reception, good for a 28-0 lead.

Midway through the second quarter, Louisiana capitalized on Pribula’s first interception of the season, booting a 34-yard field goal following Cameron Whitfield’s pick deep in Mizzou territory.

The momentum didn’t last for the visitors. Two snaps into Mizzou’s next possession, Hardy was off to the races down the Tigers’ sideline, outracing the entire ULL defense 71 yards for his second score of the game to put him at 164 rushing yards with six minutes left in the opening half.

The Ragin’ Cajuns had a little rage left in the first half, ripping off an 82-yard Zylan Perry touchdown run to reach double digits for the game, but the Tigers squeezed in one more score before the break, a 22-yard Robert Meyer field goal for a 38-10 halftime advantage.

In the second half, the Tigers added rushing touchdowns by Hardy and Davis to pull away for good, setting up next week’s showdown with the Gamecocks.

SCORING SUMMARY

QuarterTeamTimeScoreULMIZ
1stMIZ08:26MIZ – Hardy, Ahmad 7 yd run (Meyer, Robert kick), 10 plays, 73 yards, TOP 05:1707
1stMIZ02:38MIZ – Johnson, Marquis 11 yd pass from Pribula, Beau (Meyer, Robert kick) 8 plays, 60 yards, TOP 04:30014
2ndMIZ14:18MIZ – Pribula, Beau 14 yd run (Meyer, Robert kick), 4 plays, 59 yards, TOP 01:21021
2ndMIZ10:31MIZ – Roberts, Jamal 39 yd pass from Pribula, Beau (Meyer, Robert kick) 5 plays, 74 yards, TOP 02:04028
2ndLOU06:22UL – Sterner, Tony 34 yd field goal, 4 plays, 5 yards, TOP 01:59328
2ndMIZ05:41MIZ – Hardy, Ahmad 71 yd run (Meyer, Robert kick), 2 plays, 75 yards, TOP 00:34335
2ndLOU03:27UL – Perry, Zylan 84 yd run (Sterner, Tony kick), 1 plays, 84 yards, TOP 00:141035
2ndMIZ00:00MIZ – Meyer, Robert 22 yd field goal, 14 plays, 71 yards, TOP 03:271038
3rdMIZ10:02MIZ – Hardy, Ahmad 7 yd run (Meyer, Robert kick), 10 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:581045
4thMIZ07:02MIZ – Davis, Marquise 2 yd run (Meyer, Robert kick), 17 plays, 73 yards, TOP 10:431052

2025 MIZZOU TIGERS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

DateTimeAtOpponentLocationTVRadioResults
August 28, 2025 (Thursday)6:30 pmHomeCentral ArkansasFaurot FieldTiger Radio NetworkW 61-6 (1-0)
September 6, 2025 (Saturday)2:30 pmHomeKansasFaurot FieldTiger Radio NetworkW 42-31 (2-0)
September 13, 2025 (Saturday)12 pmHomeLouisianaFaurot FieldTiger Radio NetworkW 52-10 (3-0)
September 20, 2025 (Saturday)6 pmHome#11 South CarolinaFaurot FieldTiger Radio Network
September 27, 2025 (Saturday)TBDHomeMassachusettsFaurot FieldTBDTiger Radio Network
October 11, 2025 (Saturday)11 amHomeAlabamaFaurot Field11 amTiger Radio Network
October 18, 2025 (Saturday)TBDAwayAuburnAuburn, Ala. / Jordan-Hare StadiumTBDTiger Radio Network
October 25, 2025 (Saturday)TBDAwayVanderbiltNashville, Tenn. / FirstBank StadiumTBDTiger Radio Network
November 8, 2025 (Saturday)TBDHomeTexas A&MFaurot FieldTBDTiger Radio Network
November 15, 2025 (Saturday)TBDHomeMississippi StateFaurot FieldTBDTiger Radio Network
November 22, 2025 (Saturday)11 amAwayOklahomaNorman, Okla. / Memorial Stadium11 amTiger Radio Network
November 29, 2025 (Saturday)TBDAwayArkansasFayetteville, Ark. / Razorback StadiumTBDTiger Radio Network