AUBURN, Ala. — Zion Young got caught on a hot microphone as the Mizzou and Auburn representatives met at midfield for the coin toss and overtime decisions with the officials.

Missouri football won the toss and elected to face the Auburn offense first. That’s what Young, it seems, wanted.

“Let’s (expletive) go,” his ever-energetic voice boomed over the press conference speakers in Jordan-Hare Stadium, presumably via an official’s mic. Young waved his arms and gesticulated. That was accompanied by more words that the microphone picked up, but they were not discernible.

The point: He had plenty of energy.

And — even after four quarters of nearly unrelenting gut-punches and mistakes and miscues and self-inflicted wounds — so did the No. 16-ranked Missouri Tigers on the road. Need a ne

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