KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to rally past BYU at Arrowhead Stadium Saturday night.

Missouri quarterback Drew Lock hit J'Mon Moore with a 4-yard touchdown strike with 8:09 left to play, and Tyler Hunt added a 1-yard plunge help the Tigers (5-5) keep their hopes of a bowl-eligible season alive with a 20-16 win over BYU (7-3).

Neither team scored a first-half touchdown, but Missouri's Andrew Baggett nailed a pair of field goals to give the Tigers a 6-3 lead at halftime. Trevor Sampson's 23-yard kick in the second quarter tied the game at 3-3 for BYU, but Missouri did just enough to pull out the halftime edge, and then rally back after BYU took a 10-6 lead into the fourth quarter.

Here are a few quick thoughts on BYU's loss following a tumultuous week on the campus of the University of Missouri that included national media-drawing protests and the resignation of head coach Gary Pinkel, who will step down at the end of the season due to cancer.

Missouri's defense was solid

The Cougar offense was clicking coming into the game, but it couldn't find any traction in the opening 24 minutes at Arrowhead Stadium. The Tigers held BYU to 46 yards on the ground, and the Cougars only mustered 290 yards of total offense.

BYU didn't score a touchdown until Algie Brown finally busted through the line on a fake draw play with 6:21 left in the third quarter, giving the Cougars their first lead at 10-6. But after that, the Tigers opened up the offense and scored two touchdowns for the first time since Oct. 3 against South Carolina.

BYU's defense couldn't do much more

The Cougars limited Missouri to 106 yards passing and 128 yards rushing in the first half, which is pretty good considering the BYU defense was on the field for 20:35 before the break. Lock engineered two long drives ending in Baggett field goals that eventually wore down an otherwise stout BYU defense that had six tackles for loss in the first half.

Micah Hannemann made up for an offensive fumble to start the third quarter by picking off Lock, but BYU's offense couldn't capitalize.

After BYU took a 10-6 lead over the SEC opponent into the final quarter, a strange play happened to the defense, and it proved to be the turning point.

Undisciplined maneuver strikes again

Sae Tautu's hit on Lock wasn't big, but the BYU linebacker was called for roughing the passer as the Tigers drove deep while looking for their first touchdown drive to start the fourth quarter. After review, Tautu was judged to have hit Lock with the crown of his helmet — a move that led to the linebacker's ejection for targeting. One of the Cougars' top pass rushers, Tautu's ejection changed the BYU defense and the course of the game. The Tigers scored touchdowns on back-to-back drives following the ejection, and it proved to be enough to hold on for the win.

Even with the ejection, BYU's defense did enough to win the game. Except for ...

BYU's offensive performance was anemic

The Cougars amassed just 290 yards of total offense, and 244 of them came via the arm of Tanner Mangum. The freshman quarterback completed 23-of-41 passes with a touchdown and no interceptions, and he engineered two touchdown drives despite getting little help from the run game.

It wasn't all bad from BYU's run game, but there wasn't a whole lot of good outside of ...

Welcome to the end zone, Algie Brown

Brown scored his team-high 10th touchdown of the season (team-best nine on the ground, one through the air) to give BYU a 10-6 lead in the third quarter, and the junior again led BYU's ground game with 42 yards on seven carries.

In a season when he was expected to be BYU's third option at running back, the Skyline High product has put together 532 yards on 95 carries.

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