STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State was the University of Arkansas’ whipping boy in football for many years.
The Bulldogs didn’t win a game in the state of Arkansas for the first 97 years after the teams’ first meeting in 1916.
The Razorbacks won 12 of 13 games in the series shortly after joining the SEC in 1992, including nine in a row under coach Houston Nutt starting in 1999.
The Bulldogs are Razorbacks fodder no longer.
No. 21 Mississippi State (6-4, 2-4 SEC) is a 20 1/2-point favorite for today’s 11 a.m. game against the struggling Razorbacks (2-8, 0-6) at Davis Wade Stadium.