Harry King's predictions for 2018 season

LITTLE ROCK — Appropriately vague, a line from a Jo Dee Messina ditty introduces the annual task of picking the Razorbacks’ season game by game.

Singing for her rent and singing for her supper, Messina says, “I’m above the below and below the upper.”

Those few words summarize the preseason perception of Chad Morris’ first Arkansas team — better than Vanderbilt in the SEC, but inferior to Alabama and Auburn in the West, with an abundance of room in between.

Part of the personal dilemma comes from the discrepancy between the “left lane … hammer down” offense touted by Morris and the product on display in the Red-White game.

Influenced by Morris’ reputation and his promise to pursue the record for…