Arkansas
Winning AutoZone Liberty Bowl Big for Pittman, but Really Anybody Else?
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It is a greater story nowadays should you’re not in a bowl sport.
Apparently, Arkansas followers are way more at placing the tv on ESPN at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon to look at it than go throughout the river to see it.
After final yr’s 9-4 document, that is not shocking. Expectations had been to not be taking part in in Memphis after the season towards … Kansas?
The entire season could have landed on the best upright on a late September night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as a result of it ended up being a season that can give Razorback followers sufficient “what-ifs” to hold them by what is perhaps a troublesome 2023.
Arkansas Razorbacks kicker Cam Little (29) and holder Reid Bauer (30) watch the kick try of Little through the fourth quarter towards the Texas A&M Aggies at AT&T Stadium. (Jerome Miron / USA TODAY Sports activities)
There shall be new faces. Most of us must have a look at a roster to see who’s taking part in within the AuboZone Liberty Bowl.
Spring observe would be the identical story and subsequent season could find yourself taking part in a bunch of video games who will not be hanging out on Dickson St. as a result of they don’t seem to be sufficiently old.
We do know KJ Jefferson shall be behind heart and this bowl sport might be an enormous deal. It is a stone’s throw from his hometown of Sardis, Miss., simply down Interstate 55.
The excellent news for Hog followers nonetheless paying consideration is Kansas has had issues stopping working assaults this season and been a second half staff all yr.
With some broad receivers that have not seen the sector all yr, Raheim “Rocket” Sanders, AJ Inexperienced and Dominic Johnson might play big roles, offering any individual up entrance in a brand new bunch of starters can block anyone.
It might be an attention-grabbing sport. You possibly can analyze this sport 9 methods till kickoff and are available up logical explanations for nevertheless it comes out.
For Sam Pittman, although, getting a win is massive.
Getting a 7-6 document is the one factor anybody will actually care about in two years. That may imply Pittman had a successful document yearly after the entire COVID factor in 2020.
Arkansas Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman through the second quarter towards the Ole Miss Rebels at Razorback Stadium. (Nelson Chenault / USA TODAY Sports activities)
Overlook momentum on this one for subsequent yr on this one. You possibly can logically give you a cause for each groups why it might be big.
A loss by the Hogs will extra seemingly produce some shrugs and transferring to ESPN2 for the SEC opening basketball sport towards LSU than outright leaping up and down.
Sorry, that is simply the best way it truly is.
It might appear like a Kansas dwelling sport. Since 2008 they’ve mainly been a rearview mirror reflection of Alabama’s document. That is not good for these of you scrambling to Google information … the Jayhawks have misplaced about as many because the Crimson Tide has received over that point.
Each groups will declare they’re prepared and excited to play the sport. Actually. That is what you’ll anticipate, although.
We’ll know earlier than the basketball sport begins who was proper and who was mistaken.
Which is the same old routine for a bowl sport.
HOGS FEED:
DO RAZORBACK FANS REALLY CARE ABOUT HOW LIBERTY BOWL TURNS OUT?
WITH WILL WADE’S RIC FLAIR STYLE PERSONA GONE, PLAYING LSU BASKETBALL JUST NOT AS FUN
RAZORBACKS’ NUMBERS BETTER WHEN QUARTERBACK KJ JEFFERSON DOESN’T RUN AS MUCH
THE NIGHT A 19-YEAR-OLD ARKANSAS BOY COVERED THE LIBERTY BOWL WITH ELVIS PRESLEY
PREPARE FOR HEART OF BOWL SEASON WITH HILARIOUS VIDEO RECAP OF EACH WEEK
ARKANSAS FEATURED IN ANNUAL “WONDERFUL LIFE” PARODY
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FUN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TEXAS LONGHORNS
TOP RAZORBACK SIGNEE HAS NFL EXPERIENCE UNDER HIS BELT
RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: ARKANSAS VS. UNC-ASHVILLE HAD PLENTY TO SEE
HOW DOES LIBERTY BOWL LINE-UP COMPARE TO OPENER VS. CINCINNATI?
WHAT ARE THE RAZORBACKS GETTING IN ANTONIO GRIER, JR?
PITTMAN, KIFFIN, FISHER SHARE SAME NIL VIEWS DESPITE COMING FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
WORRY ALL YOU WANT, BUT NICK SMITH’S SITUATION MIGHT BE GAME-TO-GAME FOR A LONG TIME
NOTHING TO INDICATE SMITH MISSING ASHVILLE GAME TIED TO WHAT HAPPENED AGAINST BRADLEY
RAZORBACKS WILL HAVE TO GO IT ALONE IN QUEST FOR NO. 1 SEED
HOGS’ SAM PITTMAN ON WHY RELYING ON PLANE TRACKERS CAN GET PRETTY RISKY FOR FANS
RAZORBACK FOOTBALL HAS GOTTEN UGLY AND IT MAY GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
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