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By Scott Sonner
Associated Press

Posted on: Saturday, September 26, 2009

Missouri downs Nevada

 • No. 8 Boise St. faces tougher road ahead
 • No. 14 Cincinnati has defense for success
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Nevada's Colin Kaepernick is sacked by Missouri's Aldon Smith.

LIZ MARGERUM | Reno Gazette Journal via AP

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RENO, Nev. — Blaine Gabbert is doing his best to make Missouri fans forget about Chase Daniel.

The sophomore quarterback passed for 414 yards and three touchdowns, including scoring tosses of 74 and 31 yards to Danario Alexander, while scrambling for his life much of last night to help undefeated Missouri beat Nevada, 31-21.

"You look at him sometimes and say, 'How does he do it?' " Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. "He finds people down field. That's our team."

In four games this season, Gabbert has completed 66 percent of his passes (87 of 131) for 1,161 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions.

Alexander finished with nine catches for a career-high 170 yards, and Grant Resel made all four of his field-goal attempts to run his streak to 10 for 10 this season for the Tigers (4-0), who have won a school-record 14 consecutive nonconference games.

"When our defense and offense put it together, we're a pretty good team," Missouri linebacker Sean Weatherspoon said.

Luke Lippincott ran for 114 yards for the Wolf Pack (0-3), who took a 13-7 lead on the first series of the second half on Colin Kaepernick's 11-yard touchdown run, and had a chance to regain the lead early in the fourth quarter before Lippincott fumbled at Missouri's 4.

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