Don’t look now, but No. 3 Arkansas, once considered mostly an afterthought,
could play in the BCS National Championship Game with an upset at top-ranked LSU
on Friday. And the Razorbacks could play for all the marbles despite not even
playing in their own conference championship game!
Arkansas (10-1, 6-1 SEC) would play in the SEC
Championship Game against Georgia with a win and Alabama loss Saturday to Auburn
in the Iron Bowl – and Arkansas no doubt would get a national title spot by
winning against the Dawgs. But if the Hogs and Tide win this weekend, all sorts
of tiebreakers come into play in the SEC West because Alabama thumped the Hogs
earlier this season but LSU beat Alabama. A scenario exists where LSU could lose
this game, but still end up in the national championship game against
Alabama.
The Razorbacks have won seven straight since that Alabama loss
and they haven’t scored fewer than 44 points in the past three games. Last week
the Hogs rolled past Mississippi State 44-17, thanks a school-record 32
completions for 365 yards and three TDs from QB Tyler Wilson,
and got some major help in the BCS standings with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and
Oregon all losing. Wilson leads the SEC in passing yards by a mile and the Hogs
lead the conference in points and yards per game.
LSU (11-0, 7-0) has
beaten every team by at least 13 points except for the 9-6 slugfest at Alabama a
few weeks ago. The Tigers have followed that game by crushing Western Kentucky
and, last week, Ole Miss by a combined 94-12 score. Only one offensive TD has
been scored against that stellar LSU defense in the past three weeks and that
unit hasn’t allowed more than one since Sept. 24 at West
Virginia.
Arkansas has had LSU’s number of late, winning three of the
past four meetings, including 31-23 in Little Rock last year. Friday’s game
marks the fourth top-five matchup in Arkansas school history, and the first
since 1970. UA has four wins in 17 games all-time against the No. 1 team in the
country. The Razorbacks’ last win over the No. 1 team was a 50-48 defeat of
top-ranked LSU in Baton Rouge on Nov. 23, 2007, which is also the last time the
AP No. 1 team lost on its home field.
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