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          Daniel's career passing day vaults Mizzou past Kansas

          Nov 25, 2006

            COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Chase Daniel threw for a career-best 356
            yards and four touchdowns to lead Missouri to a 42-17 win over
            Kansas on Saturday.

            Chase Coffman caught two scoring passes for Missouri (8-4, 4-4
            Big 12), which ended a three-game losing streak and won for just
            the second time after starting 6-0. The Tigers tied for second in
            the Big 12 North with Kansas State.

            Jon Cornish had 126 yards on 15 carries for Kansas (6-6, 3-5),
            which had won three in a row. Cornish scored on a 42-yard run in
            the first quarter en route to his eighth 100-yard game of the
            season and a school-record 1,457 yards, passing Tony Sands (1,442)
            and June Henley (1,349).

            Missouri twice led by 13 in the first half, but the lead was
            shaved to three in the third quarter soon after offsetting personal
            fouls away from the play nullified a 75-yard touchdown pass from
            Daniel to Brad Ekwerekwu. Officials first announced that the score
            would count but changed their minds after huddling for several
            minutes.

            Missouri's Jared Perry and Kansas' Jerome Kemp exchanged clips
            while Ekwerekwu was sprinting to the end zone. The Tigers ended up
            punting after a third-down incompletion, and Kansas needed only
            three plays to narrow the gap to 20-17 when Aqib Talib scored on a
            42-yard swing pass from Kerry Meier.

            A fourth-down offsides call when the Tigers were preparing to
            punt kept alive the ensuing 11-play drive capped by Temple's
            20-yard scoring run that gave Missouri a 10-point lead. Jeff
            Wolfert added his third field goal of the game, and Coffman and
            Greg Bracey added touchdown receptions in the fourth quarter.

            The Tigers lost 21-16 at Iowa State last week after a holding
            penalty in the final minute cost Missouri a go-ahead scoring run by
            Daniel. Two days after the call, Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg
            said it had been an incorrect call.

            Daniel, who was 26-for-38, topped his previous best of 320 yards
            in the opener against Murray State in his first season as starter.
            His 74-yarder in the first quarter to Perry, who benefited from a
            slip in the Kansas secondary on a short pattern, was the school's
            longest pass play since 1989.

            With the win, the Tigers ended a three-game losing streak
            against the Jayhawks.