NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Missouri Tigers fell to the Vanderbilt Commodores 17-10 in heartbreaking fashion Saturday night. Starting quarterback Beau Pribula suffered a season-ending injury, and freshman backup Matt Zollers' heroic efforts came up literal inches short of victory. 

Here's everything head coach Eli Drinkwitz had to say following the loss. 

On Beau Pribula's injury update

"Beau has no broken bones, but he did have an ankle injury that had to be popped back in. So don't have a timetable for his return, but it could be a while. So I'll update y'all as soon as we know for sure with that." 

"It's an ankle dislocation, he didn't break any bones. We think we'll MRI tomorrow and see what what the results are, but it'll be a while."

"He was on the bottom of the pile, and somebody grabbed his leg and kind of fell on him, unfortunate, you know, unfortunate injury right there. I thought the guys really rallied, and Beau had a lot of confidence. Gave us a chance, we just missed by an inch."

NOTE: Beau Pribula will be out for the remainder of the regular season, per Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports.

On the the team's response to Pribula going down

"I thought our guys really rallied. I thought, I think the morale and energy got kind of taken from us the gut punch on the missed field goal, you know, because we'd had the ball down there twice and come away with zero points. But, you know, they bought, they fought back and gave us a chance."

"I thought I saw a ton. Saw a ton. I mean, obviously we rallied the defense, got stops, you know, obviously the turnover stinks, and then we have the hands to the face, which was a great call, but, you know, we we were on the wrong end of, and I'm not saying there were good or bad calls. We were just on the wrong end of the flags most of the day. You know, we scored an early touchdown. They call it tripping right, wrong or whatever? I don't know, but it just, it seemed like every time we got something, we got the first down, you know, right at the end of half, and we got a holding call, so we were behind the yellow flags most of the day, and that stuff, we're going to have to in these close games, we're gonna have to fix, you know, I think coming into the game, we were the least penalized team in the SEC and, you know, tonight we both had eight so, you know, we got to do a better job of, you know, not, not creating penalties, which create negatives. Again, that was a big one in the first half. Holding call was big at the end a half."

On his initial reaction to Matt Zollers' play 

"I was really proud of him. I thought he did an excellent job. Obviously, you know, the one turnover on a mesh read. But other than that, I mean, I thought he played really big, the fourth down conversions to give us a chance, and then to, you know, when they took the lead to drive the ball down and score, I thought was really impressive. So more one too big for him. And, you know, I got to do a better job as the head coach."

"Poise in the pocket, finding spots, accurate throws, he did a really good job."

On how to move forward, focus on postseason

"We'll figure it out and start as soon as I get on the plane. We'll come up with a plan. We'll attack it, and Mizzou will be proud. You got a bunch of fighters in that room. Those guys are fighting their butt off and played really hard. I mean, they got a fumble on the one inch line, you know, got overturned, but they're doing everything they can to give us a chance, and then the ball gets thrown to the one inch line. So, you know, we're giving ourselves opportunities."

"Really proud of the fight. I mean, that's what this game is. You know, they're one play games. We're going to be disappointed in three or four plays that we had opportunities to win and we didn't get it done. And they're going to have to fight, you know, they're going to have to fight. It's, you know, there's going to be a lot of negativity based off of the injuries and all that. And they just got to fight, you know, fight it and rally as a coaching staff, as a group, we got to rally together and find a way to keep moving forward."

"You know, there's still a lot of football left, lot of opportunities left. You know, the reality of it is, like I told them in there, you know, we're probably not playing for the conference championship now with two losses, but we're darn sure playing for the playoffs. And so, you know, it becomes a one game season, week in, week out. We've already accomplished one of our goals, which was to qualify for a bowl game. And so now it's, it's free football to see what kind of opportunity we have next, you know? And that's what we'll do. We'll take it one play, one game, one day at a time, and we'll see what happens. But you know, they're going to be hurt, disappointed. We're all going to be because we put a lot into these games, but they got a lot to be proud of."

On Kevin Coleman Jr.'s play 

"Did a great job being big when we needed to be big, and he was a difference maker."

On Jude James' play 

"That was a big time fourth down catch, wasn't the best throw, but it was a heck of a read. And, you know, stepped up in big moments. He was in there at the end of the game and did some nice stuff. So good job."

On Vanderbilt's 80-yard rushing touchdown 

"That play is really disappointing. You know, because thought we'd pretty much held them in check the entire game. I mean, they had no breathing room. And, you know, we just put them in a bad spot on that last Bumble. So just we played our butt off. We fought. We knew we would."

On the fourth quarter struggles

"One or two plays, and we just, you know, we were on the short end of it, obviously the fourth and one in the third quarter, and then this field goal in the third quarter proved to be big. And then obviously that last play, you know, catch the ball on the one inch line. So, you know, disappointing to work so hard and come short. But that's part of life in this league, and we'll bounce back."

On Brett Norfleet exiting the game, trying to return

"He tried to give it a go, but didn't get wasn't able to get back. So I don't know yet. We'll see, good time for a bye week."

On the officiating on critical plays

"I'm sure they saw video evidence."