<table> </table> COLUMBIA | Gary Pinkel accepted victory on Saturday, but the Missouri football coach sure seemed uncomfortable handling it.</p><p>Sure, quarterback Chase Daniel set a Big 12 Conference single-game record by hitting 20 consecutive passes and threw for a career-high 439 yards in the 42-21 victory over Buffalo.</p><p>And the Tigers are 4-0 for the third straight season and likely not to drop below their No. 5 national ranking.</p><p>But despite what Pinkel told his players about enjoying the victory, that didn&#8217;t mean he had to like this one.</p><p>&#8220;We get inside the 50, we turn the ball over,&#8221; Pinkel fumed. &#8220;We get out of a drive, you hit the punter.</p><p>&#8220;It was just a comedy of errors. If you do that too many times, usually you don&#8217;t survive it.&#8221;</p><p>Star receivers Chase Coffman, Jeremy Maclin and Jared Perry all fumbled away points on Buffalo&#8217;s side of the field.</p><p>With the Missouri defense having forced Buffalo to punt, Brian Coulter crashed into the punter and the Bulls later cashed in the second chance for a touchdown.</p><p>Asked if Missouri &#8212; playing the way it did on Saturday &#8212; would survive at Nebraska on Oct. 4, Daniel responded with a terse &#8220;No.&#8221;</p><p>That said, the consternation will fade.</p><p>&#8220;A win&#8217;s a win,&#8221; said Daniel, who hit 36 of 43 passes, including TD tosses of 27 yards to Danario Alexander and 4 yards to Coffman. &#8220;We&#8217;ll take it any way we get it. It&#8217;s hard to get wins nowadays.&#8221;</p><p>Well, it hadn&#8217;t been for Missouri. The Tigers came into Saturday&#8217;s game before more than 65,000 with the nation&#8217;s top-scoring offense, averaging 57.7 points a game.</p><p>The fewest points they had scored was 52. And this game started off in the same fashion, Missouri scoring on Derrick Washington&#8217;s 6-yard TD run and Jeff Wolfert&#8217;s 26-yard field goal.</p><p>Those scores pushed to 15 Missouri&#8217;s consecutive scoring possessions with its No. 1 offense.</p><p>Then Buffalo&#8217;s fleet Ernest Jackson scored the first of his three touchdowns, this one on a 97-yard kickoff return.</p><p>And, well, Missouri won. But it didn&#8217;t dominate nearly as much as its 590 yards of total offense and Buffalo&#8217;s 49 yards of rushing seemed to indicate.</p><p>The fumbles came at the Buffalo 38 (Coffman, second quarter), the Buffalo 12 (Perry, second quarter), and the Buffalo 22 (Maclin, third quarter).</p><p>Missouri left 21 points on Faurot Field.</p><p>&#8220;It was unacceptable,&#8221; said Maclin, who caught 14 passes for 168 yards. &#8220;All three coming from the receiving corps. We&#8217;re better than that and we&#8217;ve got to get that corrected.&#8221;</p><p>Coffman &#8212; except for the fumble &#8212; had a good day, catching 10 passes for 84 yards.</p><p>Tommy Saunders caught four passes for 96 yards, including one that went 69 yards before he was tripped up.</p><p>Daniel tried his best to look on the sunny side.</p><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s really good for us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You look at everything we have done up to this game and there has been no adversity at all.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to go through the season without any adversity.</p><p>&#8220;We were able to come over it, come through it.&#8221;</p><p>Teammates weren&#8217;t buying it.</p><p>&#8220;We expect to win,&#8221; said Perry, who came out of the game with bruised ribs. &#8220;We go out there and try to dominate every team. I didn&#8217;t feel like we did that.&#8221;</p><p>Neither did Pinkel.</p><p>&#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s good that you get a little adversity so you can see how you handle it,&#8221; Pinkel said. &#8220;We overdid the adversity.</p><p>&#8220;I like to think I&#8217;m a pretty good coach and we&#8217;re a well-coached team, but we didn&#8217;t look that way out there today.&#8221;</p><p>Nothing, it seems, bothers Pinkel more than the kind of mistakes the Tigers made on Saturday.</p><p>&#8220;These aren&#8217;t rocket-science mistakes,&#8221; Pinkel groused. &#8220;It&#8217;s all about focus. Those mistakes will get fixed right now. We don&#8217;t need two weeks to work on them.&#8221;