HawgBeat – How to watch Arkansas-Kansas, key players, more

As the vacations come to an finish and bowl season rolls on, Wednesday’s slate will function the Arkansas Razorbacks vs Kansas within the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

The Hogs and Jayhawks have each arrived for his or her showdown in Memphis, Tennessee, and it will likely be a battle of 6-6 groups. The matchup marks the third assembly between the 2, with Kansas having received each legs of a home-and-home in 1905 and 1906.

This will probably be Arkansas’ forty fourth bowl look and its sixth displaying within the Liberty Bowl. A victory can be the seventeenth in program historical past and the third in Memphis.

Though the Hogs are favored to win, the three-point unfold is far smaller than it might have been in the course of the common season. They’re lacking 10 gamers who began sooner or later in the course of the season, both by way of the switch portal or the NFL draft.

The Jayhawks, in the meantime, are making their first bowl since 2008, which has created pleasure and way more willingness to stay round for the tip of the season.

Because the Razorbacks put together for his or her third consecutive postseason look, right here is the whole lot it’s essential know in regards to the sixty fourth Liberty Bowl:

#6 – QB Jalon Daniels – Jr., 6′ 0″, 215 lbs.

2022 Stats: 115-175 COMP-ATT (65.7%), 1,470 YDS, 13 TD, 2 INT, 63 RUSH ATT, 398 YDS, 6 TD

#4 – RB Devin Neal – So., 5′ 11″, 210 lbs.

2022 Stats: 171 ATT, 1,061 YDS, 9 TD, 19 REC, 160 YDS, TD

#2 – WR Lawrence Arnold – So., 6′ 3″, 200 lbs.

2022 Stats: 36 REC, 597 YDS, 4 TD

#2 – CB Cobee Bryant – So., 6′ 0”, 170 lbs.

2022 Stats: 33 TKL (28 SOLO), 3 INT, TD

Vegas: Arkansas -3, O/U 68.5

ESPN FPI: Arkansas has 58.2% probability to win