No way around it, this is so brutal... The Missouri Tigers entered play as the No. 15 team in the nation on Saturday. They had an amazing opportunity to beat a top-10 Vanderbilt Commodores team over in Nashville. ESPN College GameDay was in town for it. While it was a low-scoring affair in the first half, Missouri was driving with a shot to take a touchdown lead. Then, the worst thing possible happened...
On a fourth-and-goal from the Vanderbilt one-yard line, Missouri star quarterback Beau Pribula was stopped short of the end zone. To make it even worse, he got his leg trapped under some players. When he was being tackled, you could see his leg snap. It is incredibly ghastly, the type of injury that ends one's season. Pribula had to be put in an air cast before being carted off the field immediately.
This is the play in question that effectively ended Pribula's season. Missouri is still battling right now.
Vandy gets the 4th & Goal stop!
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Mizzou QB Beau Pribula was carted off the field with his leg in an aircast. Prayers up for him. pic.twitter.com/BbET7XwVfd
Pribula had to be carted off the field, as he was later placed into a wheelchair after his horrible injury.
Beau Pribula has been carted off the field pic.twitter.com/MsSv7PDYu3
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With Sam Horn out for the season, third-stringer Matt Zollers had to enter the game for the Tigers.
Beau Pribula suffers season-ending injury early in second half vs. Vandy
Again, this was arguably the game of the week. The winner of No. 15 Missouri at No. 10 Vanderbilt would improve to 7-1 on the season and 3-1 in SEC play. While there are some people out there who doubt either team's chances of making the College Football Playoff, a win in this environment would do wonders to silence the doubters. Both of these teams have narrow losses to Alabama on the year.
What is so troubling about this is Pribula had been the straw that stirred the drink in Columbia all season long. He was a revelation under center for the Tigers. Brady Cook had been marginal at best prior to him. Clearly, Penn State made a bad decision in letting Pribula leave State College via the transfer portal. Sadly, his season ended very much the same way Drew Allar's did for Penn State...
In the end, it will have to be a bunch of Ahmad Hardy in the backfield, some good, old-fashioned Mizzou defense, plus an incredibly great coaching job out of Eliah Drinkwitz the rest of the way. Zollers came to Columbia with a ton of talent, but he may not be ready for the baptism by fire that is the heart of an SEC schedule from November on. Missouri is a bowl team, but that might be it here...
Of the handful of devastating injuries to sink a team's season, this has to be the worst of the year...