Yesterday’s football post failed to mention that we’re playing Arkansas this weekend. A few weeks ago it was looking like Arkansas was going to be a gimme. They’ve had a horrible year, but managed to upset Auburn two weeks ago. They’ve since lost to Kentucky. We should definitely win this game, but you never know with this team.
Remember that our coach, Houston Nutt, had been Arkansas’s coach for many years until they ran him off at the end of last season. Arkansas hired Bobby Petrino, the former Louisville coach coming off a bad year as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. I’m guessing a lot of Arkansas fans would like their coach back.
We need to win three of our remaining five games to be bowl eligible. Arkansas, Louisiana-Monroe, and Mississippi State are all very winnable games. We should be able to beat Auburn too, but they’ll be though. Beating LSU would be a big upset, so I’m not going to count on that. In short, we need to beat Arkansas this week.