Night Tilt in the Bayou Awaits Hogs After Win Over MSU

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Arkansas drove the tract successful the last seconds to instrumentality a triumph implicit Mississippi State, displaying the poise that had been the cardinal to the blistery commencement to the season.

Though the last people was a nail biter, the archetypal fractional of the crippled saw Arkansas power the enactment of scrimmage and triumph the peculiar teams match-ups.

State scored with conscionable .07 connected the timepiece aft the Hogs committed aggregate penalties to supply the opportunity.

That people was a large momentum swing, arsenic the Bulldogs would besides get the shot to commencement the 2nd half. The archetypal thrust was productive, and Arkansas was abruptly behind.

The pb changed hands a mates of times, and galore felt it was implicit erstwhile State scored with conscionable 2:22 near successful the crippled to instrumentality a 28-23 lead.

KJ Jefferson past took control, and drove down the field, getting a small assistance connected a 4th down incompletion wherever the Bulldog defender held the receiver and kept the thrust alive.

Jefferson utilized his feet to debar tacklers getting the shot adjacent earlier Dominic Johnson capped disconnected the thrust and the crippled with conscionable 21 seconds to go.

Arkansas converted the 2 pt conversion connected the ground.

Mississippi State dove to wrong tract extremity range, and aft a unsmooth commencement connected peculiar teams, Mike Leach sent a freshman placekicker retired alternatively of a elder who had a unsmooth start.

It did not spell well, arsenic the footwear was disconnected from the commencement and the Hogs started celebrating.

Leach went to the property league and derided his kickers publically earlier stating they would clasp an unfastened tryout connected campus.

As you tin imagine, this did not endear him to fans, particularly erstwhile photos soon emerged showing Arkansas freshman spot kicker Cam Little was among the archetypal to enactment an limb astir his opposing counterpart pursuing the missed attempt.

Little would person SEC freshman of the week honors for his enactment against the Bulldogs.

Arkansas improved connected peculiar teams, and again ran for implicit 200 yards connected the day.

They are presently the apical rushing squad successful the SEC and ranked 4th nationally.

On this day, it was reddish garment freshman Dominic Johnson who carried the workload, though Treylon Smith and Rocket Sanders had important snaps.

Arkansas indispensable present crook their attraction to LSU and a coveted nighttime crippled successful the SEC.

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Keys to the Game:

Penalties: Arkansas is among the astir penalized teams successful the SEC, thing they indispensable cleanable up if they privation to triumph the adjacent games.

Defensive penalties successful the secondary were costly a week ago, but Miles Slusher played a precise coagulated crippled successful spot of Jalen Catalon, who is mislaid for the season.

Run the dang ball!: Arkansas volition look to support moving the shot with authorization successful this one.

LSU overachieved versus Alabama’s tally crippled a week ago, holding them to lone 6 yards. Overall.

The LSU tally defence is 7th successful the SEC allowing 148 yards a game. Which LSU defence volition amusement up?

Will it beryllium the 1 from the Alabama crippled oregon the defence that gave up 265 yards connected the crushed to Ole Miss?

Quiet the Crowd: Overall, Arkansas has fared good successful nighttime gamesat LSU.

Arkansas needs to instrumentality the assemblage retired of this 1 arsenic aboriginal arsenic imaginable and interruption the volition of an already fractured squad and fanbase.

LSU sits astatine 4-5 wide and apt volition request this crippled to scope vessel eligibility.

The predictions are each implicit the spot for this one, with Arkansas a 2.5 constituent roadworthy favourite and LSU favored successful the Power Index.

If the over/under of 59 is adjacent close, I similar the Hogs successful this one.

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