KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Missouri quarterback Drew Lock remembers how Tennessee fans roasted him on social media after the Tigers hired Derek Dooley as offensive coordinator.

“I still had Twitter at that time and I was getting tagged in all of these tweets from Tennessee people, (saying), ‘Aww, Drew Lock’s got Derek Dooley now. Here he goes down the drain, Blah, blah, blah,’” Lock said.

Lock issued one heck of a response Saturday as Missouri trounced the Volunteers 50-17 in Dooley’s return to Tennessee, which fired him as head coach six years ago.
With Lock throwing two touchdown passes and Larry Rountree rushing for 135 yards, Missouri (7-4, 3-4 SEC) breezed to its third straight victory. This win had to be particularly sweet for Dooley, who went 15-21 as Tennessee’s coach from 2010-12.
Rather than going down the drain under Dooley, Lock is moving up the Southeastern Conference rankings for career passing yardage.

Lock went 21 of 30 for 257 yards Saturday and now has thrown for 11,599 yards in his career to reach second place on the SEC’s all-time list. Lock overtook David Greene, who passed for 11,528 yards at Georgia from 2001-04.

“That feels really good,” Lock said. “That is definitely really cool, especially to be able to do it here with Coach Dooley.”

The SEC record holder is Aaron Murray, who compiled 13,166 career passing yards for Georgia from 2010-13.

Ty Chandler had two touchdown runs for Tennessee (5-6, 2-5), which lost starting quarterback Jarrett Guarantano to an injury after he was sacked twice in the first quarter . Keller Chryst replaced Guarantano early in the second period and went 7 of 19 for 173 yards with two interceptions.
Tennessee: The Vols still can become bowl eligible by winning at Vanderbilt, which would represent a giant step forward for a program that finished 4-8 and went winless in SEC competition last year.

“We want to go to a bowl game, we’ve got to go get it,” Chandler said. “It’s not going to be handed to us.”