It was a win that in more successful seasons would have been an afterthought, another victory on the road against a bad Arkansas team that had fired its coach weeks earlier in front of a crowd that was half-asleep for much of the game.
For Auburn, though, it was a sense of relief after four disappointing, sometimes controversial, losses that seemed to end with the Tigers finding a way to lose. And, when Hugh Freeze's team fell behind 21-10 in the second quarter, it would have been easy, and almost natural, for a team that sat 3-4 and 0-4 in SEC play to quit.