AUBURN, Ala. — They all count the same.
No. 16-ranked Missouri football survived perhaps its poorest performance of the season with a gritty double-overtime win over Auburn on Saturday night at Jordan-Hare Stadium, keeping its biggest season ambitions on the table with a 23-17 victory on the Plains.
Mizzou now heads to Vanderbilt for a likely top-15 matchup next Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. Courtesy of the ugly, grind-it-out win, that game still has College Football Playoff implications.