His last name wasn’t spelled the way it was supposed to be. His game didn’t end the way he wanted it to.
Larry Rountree III, whose name was missing an “N” on the back of his jersey, rushed for a career-high 204 yards in the Liberty Bowl Monday. But on a play that might have saved No. 23 Missouri, he came up one yard short.
“I thought I got it,” he said after the Tigers lost 38-33 to Oklahoma State. “It was a bad spot, but I can’t say anything about that.”
Missouri faced a third-and-one in the dying minutes of the fourth quarter, and Rountree ran up the middle, straight into a sea of Cowboys defenders.