Lynn Worthy | Post-Dispatch

Sports columnist

COLUMBIA — When Alabama needed a play to change the trajectory of the game, particularly in the second half, it put the ball in the hands of its best player and quarterback Ty Simpson. When Mizzou desperately needed a play to tilt momentum and ignite its offense in the fourth quarter of a tight game, its best player and running back Ahmad Hardy didn’t get the ball.

That’ll be one of the lasting painful memories from Saturday’s loss in the biggest game for Mizzou so far this season.

You can call that assessment simplistic. You can make the case that’s overdoing it to reduce a highly competitive clash between a pair of Top 15 teams that went down to the final minutes game to who had the ball in his hands more. That’s fine.

Nobody can deny tha

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