At last, the Razorbacks are showing some consistency. The Hogs have played two games in Little Rock, losing both on the final play, both in the same end zone.
As Jason Parker pointed out in his column this week, Ole Miss is coming to Little Rock for the first time since 1992. How dramatically have things changed over the past 20 years?
A “quick tally” of the economic impact of the University of Arkansas includes information that the economic impact so far in 2012 from home Razorback football games is $40.842 million – a figure similar to the debt listed in the bankruptcy proceedings of Head Hog Coach John L. Smith.
University of Arkansas student-athletes that entered school in a four-year period from 2002-05 had a graduation success rate of 72% in the most recent numbers released by the NCAA.
While the entire Southeastern Conference league was buzzing with Thursday’s release of the 2013 league schedule, Arkansas and Ole Miss continued to rest up for next weekend’s showdown in Little Rock that could catapult either school back into the bowl picture for 2012.
Arkansas will host seven in-state games, including conference matchups with Texas A&M, South Carolina, Auburn and Mississippi State, as part of the 2013 football schedule released Thursday (Oct. 18) by the University of Arkansas Athletic Department.
Things are looking up in Northwest Arkansas after the 24-7 victory over Auburn a week ago. Thoughts of the postseason have now re-entered the minds of the UA faithful with a couple of more winnable games showing up in the next three weeks against Kentucky and Ole Miss.
We are halfway there. Living on a prayer? Not exactly.
Winning at Auburn was the midpoint of the season. When a team hits its stride, it is frequently called mid-season form. For old dogs like us, there is no form. We are just glad to have made it over the hump.
What a difference a week makes. Following a rain-drenched throttling at Texas A&M last week, the Razorbacks prevailed on the plains of Auburn on what may have been one of the last hot and sunny days of the season.
This was the reaction Tusk to Tail’s Godfather of Tailgating received around the turn of the century when his streak of consecutive games had begun to reach double digits. It was a different era, to be sure.
As the 2012 Arkansas Razorbacks are off to one of their worst starts in program history, the film 22 Straight! will have its statewide broadcast premier on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m. on AETN.
Just when you thought it could not get any worse, it did. Before the Tusk To Tail goodwill tour could even get underway, the headlines announced "Porkapolypse" and "Ham-ageddon."
I can only think of a couple of things that should start at 11 a.m. on a Saturday and they both involve eating and don’t involve the kick off of a football game.
