Texas A&M's offense left Faurot Field without a touchdown Saturday, and Mike Elko put the result on his desk before anyone else's.
No. 14 Missouri beat the Aggies 27-6, dropping A&M to 3-3 overall and 1-3 in the SEC, the school's athletics site reported. Texas A&M finished with 216 yards of total offense. Marcel Reed completed 19 of 39 passes for 187 yards.
All six Aggie points came from David Olano, who hit from 53 and 27 yards and is 9-for-9 on field goals this season, the first Aggie to open a year that clean since Todd Pegram made his first 12 in 2004.
"Just another extremely disappointing road performance ... completely unable to get anything going on offense," Elko said in his postgame comments posted by Texas A&M. "Couldn't consistently establish any facet of the game, and that made it really hard. Thought the defense hung in there for a while and played solid football for a while.
But ultimately, I think we wore down. And that's the story of the game. So we've got to go back to the drawing board and figure this out because it's not nearly good enough.
That's me. Again, I own every part of this."
How the afternoon closed
Missouri's Jamal Roberts scored on a 2-yard run late in the third and a 54-yard run in the fourth, the Aggies' recap said. Cayden Lee's 32-yard touchdown catch opened the Tigers' scoring in the second quarter after Olano's early 53-yarder had put A&M up 3-0. Field goals of 50 and 51 yards for Missouri stretched the gap before the late rushing scores sealed it.
Houston Thomas led A&M with four catches for a season-high 30 yards. TK Norman had a career-high 55 yards on three receptions. Jordan Shaw paced the defense with eight tackles and a career-high 1.5 tackles for loss.
