Arkansas football has a PhD in the art of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The Razorbacks may have given us their magnum opus in Saturday’s season finale against Missouri.
Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz ran a 1940s-style offense in the dreary Fayetteville weather, passing for just 25 – yes, 25 – yards. But the Arkansas defense was helpless in the run game, allowing the Tigers to rack up 322 yards on the ground. That’s a statline legendary run-happy Harding coach Paul Simmons would be proud of.
At numerous points throughout the game, it appeared Missouri was doing its best Arkansas impression by trying to give the game away.