Diego Pavia dove across the goal line for a 1-yard touchdown with 1:52 left as No. 10 Vanderbilt beat 15th-ranked Missouri 17-10 Saturday to extend the Commodores’ best start in more than 80 years.

Six seconds left, Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea called his defense back over to the sidelines one final time for a timeout. It was third down and 17 yards to go for the Missouri offense. But in reality, it was really the final play of the game. It might as well have been 4th and 37.

It's starting to get late early for fans in Columbia, Missouri. Their Tigers lost a tight game to No. 10 Vanderbilt in Nashville on Saturday, dropping the No. 15 team in the country to 6-2 with just four games left to play in the 2025-26 season.

Missouri quarterback Beau Pribula dislocated his left ankle and will have an MRI exam after being taken off the field on a cart early in the third quarter of a 17-10 against No. 10 Vanderbilt.

It certainly was far from pretty, but at the end of the day it was the “bend, don’t break” Vanderbilt defense that came up with clutch stops all night long. Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea spoke to the media after the game. Here is everything he said.

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Vanderbilt's top-15 showdown with Missouri got its first touchdown of the game on a scintillating 80-yard TD run from Makhilyn Young.

NASHVILLE—It wasn’t what College Gameday imagined when it decided to come to West End. It wasn’t what Vanderbilt envisioned when it thought up the path to its v