Arkansas spent a portion of its Thursday practice working on the two-minute drill after suffering close losses to Kentucky and Alabama in consecutive weeks.
The Razorbacks’ offense sputtered down the stretch last week after the Wildcats pulled ahead, 35-29, in the fourth quarter. On two separate drives in the final four minutes, two seconds, Arkansas ran […]

Filed under: Arkansas Football by Rainer Sabin . Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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Tom Dienhart is back and this time he is talking about the WildHog formation that Arkansas has employed the past two seasons. But don’t tell that last part to Dienhart. He says a variation of the now-famous package has been in the Razorbacks’ playbook since 1999. Come again?
Nobody likes revisionist history. And in this case […]

Filed under: Arkansas Football by Rainer Sabin . Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 2:02 pm
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Get out the Stanley measuring tape. You’ll need it to fully grasp the distance Arkansas’ average punt return covers. Right now, it’s 7.2 inches. That’s dead last in the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision, according to a report by Chris Bahn of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
It’s hard to believe a team ranked third in the nation in […]

Filed under: Arkansas Football by Rainer Sabin . Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 12:44 pm
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Tom Murphy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has an interesting article about the Razorbacks’ inability to mount comebacks and game-winning drives in tight fourth-quarter situations. You have to go back to 2003 to find the last example when the Hogs got it done when the pressure was on them.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
However, since […]

Filed under: SEC Football, Arkansas Football by Rainer Sabin . Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 12:23 pm
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Tom Dienhart, a college football writer for the Sporting News, said Arkansas is in trouble at this point in the season and so is Coach Houston Nutt’s job security.
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This isn’t earth-shattering commentary on Dienhart’s part. Nutt has been walking on egg shells ever since the beginning of a tumultuous offseason, and the recent losses to […]

Filed under: Arkansas Football by Rainer Sabin . Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 3:12 am
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For decades, Arkansas fans have built up a seething hatred for Texas. The Longhorns, after all, have had a history of beating the Razorbacks in football. Texas leads the all-time series between the two teams, 55-21.
Now, Bevo has one-upped Arkansas again. The Razorbacks’ “Woo Pig Sooie!” chant would be the best battle cry in college […]

Filed under: Arkansas Football by Rainer Sabin . Posted on: September 27, 2007 at 2:25 am
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