Missouri’s Darius White sits against Georgia

Missouri senior wide receiver Darius White missed a second straight game with “a significant abductor tear” in his right groin.

White, who also sat out at South Carolina, hoped to return after the bye week, but he did not dress against Georgia.

“We found out at Wednesday afternoon’s practice,” Tigers coach Gary Pinkel said. “He tried to go and just couldn’t go.”

During Monday’s weekly news conference, Pinkel was optimistic that White, who is second on Missouri with 230 yards and third with 15 receptions and three touchdowns, would return.

Senior wide receiver Jimmie Hunt, who also sat out against South Carolina, returned and had two catches for 29 yards.

▪ Missouri’s first sellout of the season represented the ninth-largest crowd for a Tigers home game in program history and the largest crowd since Oct. 15, 1983.

There were 71,168 on hand for Saturday’s game against Georgia at Memorial Stadium, which dropped to an official capacity of 68,349 in 1995.

Since that season, Missouri’s largest crowd was 71,004. The largest home crowd in Tigers history was 75,298 against Penn State on Oct. 4, 1980.

Here are the largest Memorial Stadium crowds in Missouri football history:

1. 75,298 vs. Penn State (Oct. 4, 1980)

2. 75,136 vs. Texas (Sept. 29, 1979)

3. 74,575 vs. Nebraska (Nov. 3, 1979)

4. 73,655 vs. Alabama (Sept. 16, 1978)

5. 72,348 vs. Nebraska (Oct. 15, 1983)

6. 72,333 vs. Colorado (Oct. 18, 1980)

7. 72,001 vs. Nebraska (Oct. 24, 1981)

8. 71, 291 vs. Oklahoma (Nov. 17, 1979)

9. 71,168 vs. Georgia (Oct, 11, 2014)

10. 71,096 vs. Colorado (Oct. 28, 1978)

▪ Redshirt freshman J’Mon Moore made his first career reception late in the first quarter, a 17-yard catch and run on a bubble screen to the short side of the field.

He finished with two catches for 33 yards.

Defensively, junior linebacker Kentrell Brothers recorded a career-high 12 tackles and senior defensive end Markus Golden matched his career-best with 10 tackles.

Junior cornerback Kenya Dennis also set a career-high with eight tackles, while sophomore defensive tackle Harold Brantley and redshirt freshman defensive end Charles Harris set or matched career-highs with two tackles for a loss apiece.

Two other Tigers — junior linebacker Clarence Green (seven) and redshirt freshman Eric Beisel (four) — set career-highs for tackles.

This story was originally published October 11, 2014 at 6:01 PM with the headline "Missouri’s Darius White sits against Georgia."