Same chapter, same book almost the entire season.
Arkansas came into the season finale tied with Oklahoma for the most fumbles in all of college football with 25.
The total is now 27 and Missouri scored touchdowns after both of them and won 28-21.
Those two touchdowns came on Mizzou drives of 40 and 34 yards. While the Tigers outplayed the Razorbacks in the second half, when they outgained the Hogs 254 yards to 209, fumbles again were costly.
The home team outscored the visitors 18-7 in the final period and this makes Arkansas 0-7 against Missouri in Columbia, Mo.
It ended up having little to do with the outcome of a game that was chippy at best when with 1:11 to play in the first half the game came to a sad standstill.
Arkansas senior defensive end Landon Jackson went down after a tackle and didn’t get up.
It takes a lot to take down a 6-7, 280-pound brute of a player and after long minutes he was carted off the field and into an ambulance.
Both teams and coaches took a knee and everyone in the stadium applauded him.
The score was tied 7-7 and at that point Arkansas had been the better team, driving 80 of its 168 first-half yards for a touchdown while Missouri took advantage of its first fumble to score.
Thoughts of Jackson were on the Razorbacks minds, but their focus was get a victory for their injured teammate.
Missouri’s idea was to get yet another win over the Razorbacks and remain undefeated at home this season.
Arkansas came out and forced Missouri into a three-and-out, then drove 50 yards with Ja’Quinden Jackson scoring his second of three touchdowns for a 14-7 lead.
The Hogs defense then held the Tigers to a field goal and went into the final quarter leading 14-10, but not for long. Arkansas fumbled after that field goal and Missouri drove the 34 yards for a 17-14 lead with 13:45 to play.
It looked like the Columbia curse was about to take a big hit when Arkansas held Missouri to another field goal and then mounted a drive that should leave no doubt Andrew Armstrong has turned into one of the best transfers during the Sam Pittman reign.
He had 9 catches for 128 yards Saturday and one came on a fourth-and-8 at the Missouri 40. It was 25 yards and two plays later Ja’Quinden Jackson scored his final touchdown for a 21-20 lead with 4:19 to play.
Missouri wasn’t through as it completed a 75-yard drive when quarterback Brady Cook went up the middle untouched for 30 yards and scored the game-winning touchdown.
The Tigers added a two-point conversion for the final margin.
On paper Arkansas looked like it should have been favored against Missouri. The Tigers were 3 1/2-point favorites, and generally a team gets three points for being at home.
Maybe the extra half was the weather, which appeared miserable.
The teams had three common opponents. Both beat Auburn and Mississippi State, but Arkansas won by scores of 24-13 and 58-21, respectively, while Missouri beat Auburn 21-17 and Mississippi State 39-20.
Both lost to Texas A&M, Arkansas 21-17 and Missouri 41-10.
Of course, the old saying is you can’t compare scores, but everyone does.
What you can’t do in any game is give your opponent two fumbles in your own territory.
It doesn’t matter if you are Missouri or Mississippi State, you can’t spot a team 14 points and win.
Overall it was not a good way to end the season, but 6-6 and bowl eligible — the guess here is either Oklahoma or Arkansas is going to Birmingham — is improvement and who knows what the record would have been with half the fumbles.