WholeHogSports · Jul 12, 2020
Putting football schedule together not easy
FAYETTEVILLE — Scheduling marquee nonconference games at the University of Arkansas comes with built-in obstacles and pitfalls, as athletic directors Jeff Long and Hunter Yurachek have discovered over the past 12 seasons.
A marquee series against Texas A&M that started as a long-term nonconference set and the challenge of balancing a schedule with home games also played in Little Rock have made piecing together the Razorbacks’ out-of-conference games tricky.
The Razorbacks contracted with Texas A&M to play a long-range series starting in 2009 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and won three games in a row before the Aggies joined the SEC and turned that annual affair into a conference game.