What's the path to 6 wins now??

[311Hog]

All accurate statements but remember that this new found offense has happened before under Bielema only to go right back to not scoring at all even versus bad teams. Hell, it even happens in same game: see Missouri and Va Tech games from last season. Like Nutt, Bielema does not seem to be able to bottle and recreate his successes. They just sort of appear out of nowhere than the team reverts to its former self the very next game.

So true, he also does not seem to "win the game he shouldnt" like Nutt would that was Nutt's only redeeming quality.  So one of these obvious wins will almost certainly be a loss, and since we cannot count on a 'surprise" win against like Auburn i don't think we get to 6.

I do have a vision of Hayden and Hammonds running the Wildhog 2.0  if we do that with Kelley for short yards goal line RPO's maybe we can score some points.

[Con el Cerdos]

There isn't a path to 6 wins, IMO.  I'll stick to my preseason 4 - 8 prediction.  If Missouri has a good day offensively against the Hogs, it might be no better than a 3 - 8 season.

[Youngsta71701]

From what I've seen so far every game on our schedule is winnable except for the Alabama and Auburn games. It just depends on what Razorback team shows up.

[Youngsta71701]

Take a look at the rest of the schedule:


Sept. 30 – NEW MEXICO STATE - Win
Oct. 7 – at South Carolina* - Win
Oct. 14 – at Alabama* - Loss
Oct. 21 – AUBURN* - Loss
Oct. 28 – at Ole Miss* - Win
Nov. 4 – COASTAL CAROLINA - Win
Nov. 11 – at LSU* - Loss
Nov. 18 – MISSISSIPPI STATE* Loss
Nov. 25 – MISSOURI* - Win

After further review I'm changing the LSWho game to a win.

[1highhog]

We upset someone every year

Let's hope we can upset New Mexico State this Saturday then.

[Dominicanhog]

From what I've seen so far every game on our schedule is winnable except for the Alabama and Auburn games. It just depends on what Razorback team shows up.

so, which team do you want to see.. the TCU version or the A & M version?

[Youngsta71701]

so, which team do you want to see.. the TCU version or the A & M version?

The first half A&M version when we were up 21-7 lol.

[parallaxpig]

How exciting that Razorback football has come down to searching for a 6 win season.

Welcome to the new reality. We are below Vandy & Kentucky now.

[Arkansas Fan]

Do we honestly want to go to a bowl game? It would only make our bowl record look worse than it already is.

[Simple Swineman]

We will lose to Bama and Auburn then win out. Those are the only two teams left that we don't match up well against. We possibly lose one that we should win (as seems to be standard practice).

Can't believe I'm saying it, but by looking at the schedule I see 8-4 or 7-5.

[jgphillips3]

A&M sucks and made us look better than we are.  Yes, the cupcakes, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Missouri are our best hope for 6 wins.  I sure as Hell wouldn't bet on us to win 6 though.  I figure, realistically, 5-7 is what we are looking at. 

[GoHogs1091]

I don't really see a path.

The only wins that could happen.

New Mexico State
Coastal Carolina
Ole Miss
Missouri

Yes, we get Mississippi State at home, but Fitzgerald could very well make that game a loss.

[Al Boarland]

Auburn is doable at home. Revenge factor

Is that like "being due" to beat A&M?

[Al Boarland]

We will lose to Bama and Auburn then win out. Those are the only two teams left that we don't match up well against. We possibly lose one that we should win (as seems to be standard practice).

Can't believe I'm saying it, but by looking at the schedule I see 8-4 or 7-5.

I can't believe you are saying it either.

[PygmalionEffect2]

Sept. 30 – NEW MEXICO STATE - Win
Oct. 7 – at South Carolina* - Loss
Oct. 14 – at Alabama* - Loss
Oct. 21 – AUBURN* - Win
Oct. 28 – at Ole Miss* - Loss
Nov. 4 – COASTAL CAROLINA - Win
Nov. 11 – at LSU* - Win
Nov. 18 – MISSISSIPPI STATE* Loss
Nov. 25 – MISSOURI* - Win


6-6

I'm going to the Auburn game and we always win the game that I choose to attend every year.

Obviously I don't make many games in person.

[code red]

Win the OC games cocks, rebs and Mizzou.

[code red]

I think they are far from being worse than us.

If they run the ball every down...they beat us....plus it's in death valley.

[davglo35]

Them NMS boys are lickin their chops right now after watching film of the mighty razorbacks today! 4 maybe 5 if someone goes to sleep on us.

[ShadowHawg]

they are not good on offense.  but they are playing at home.  gotta hope it isn't a night game.

If they can run the ball they will be extremely hard to beat.

[East Clintwood]

My pre-season prediction was 6-6 and I stated I was being extremely generous at that.

I shouldn't have been generous.  We're much worse than I thought

The on;y way I see us getting 6 victories is if two teams forfeit to us.

[devildoghawg]

You could probably add this year and next year and hit 6, well...maybe.

[12247]

The issues are that every team we face going forward should get better weekly as should we.  LSU has a new HC who should get get better with his team.  We will not beat LSU.  I think S. Car will hand us our asses.  I am hopeful we can muster enough to beat OM and MO.  Unless 1 or 2 teams suffer really bad injuries or other turmoil, we are 4-8 or 5-7.  We have the worst HC and staff in the SEC as far as production on the field goes.  Just the way it is.

I said all summer that BB would tighten the screws and play for a new contract as I felt Long would be encouraging him to do.  I felt BB had it in him to actually turn it on for 6 months.  But I was wrong.  He simply hasn't got it in him.  He is what we see and suffer for.  A chance at a bowl game this season depends on several teams we play having additional and above average troubles and us not suffering major additional injuries.  These players have the ability to pull together  and play all together sometimes without having leadership push it.  Right there is the only real hope we have to reach a bowl.

[Rzbakfromwaybak]

I think we can do it.....if given 2 years....

[311Hog]

If they can run the ball they will be extremely hard to beat.

i hear their OL is suspect and QB is not mobile so that has to help our cause.

[logic]

I agree with that.

Still, pretty sad that here we are, hoping we can find a way to win a stunning SIX games this season.

Win 4, 5, or 6 games; it doesn't much matter. Who cares if we go to a no name bowl?

[farmhawg]

We are literally 2 or 3 plays from being 3-0 and people talking about 10 wins. The truth is, the league sucks. Lsu is terrible, so is ole miss, miss st., mizzou has the worst defense in college football, they are truly horrible. Ole miss is bad. We have 2 cupcakes. USCE is terrible. We are bad. But there are a lot of teams worse. This is the worst the sec has ever been.

Arkansas will win 7 games.

5 years and a down conference. We just suck.

[Razor1997]

From what I've seen so far every game on our schedule is winnable except for the Alabama and Auburn games. It just depends on what Razorback team shows up.

Maybe if it's the 2010 team that shows up.

[HawgTrough]

I don't really see a path.

The only wins that could happen.

New Mexico State
Coastal Carolina
Ole Miss
Missouri

Yes, we get Mississippi State at home, but Fitzgerald could very well make that game a loss.

if Mullen doesn't ease up on Fitz, he may not make it to the Fayetteville game

[Pistol Pig Maravich]

We upset someone every year

Yeah we do....me!! 5 wins tops!!!

[axharbor]

They have us going 4-8.  Didn't hit me until just now that we are the only team in SEC, other than Missouri, with a losing record.  Only predicted to finish 1 game better than Missouri...  Sick of being bad...

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/espns-fpi-projects-every-sec-west-teams-final-record/?utm_source=SEC+FANS&utm_campaign=001b9ab308-RSS_TAMU_HF&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec9195cc38-001b9ab308-337605429&mc_cid=001b9ab308&mc_eid=4135b90b3b

[TNRazorbacker]

He's going to lose to Alabama and Missouri.  It's what he does.  So I'm going with:

New Mexico St., South Carolina, Auburn, Ole Miss and Coastal Carolina.

Auburn doesn't impress me.

They didn't impress me last year prior to our meeting.

[East Clintwood]

they are not good on offense.  but they are playing at home.  gotta hope it isn't a night game.

Probably won't be.  I think all of out remaining games this season except Mizzu will be 11 am games.

[idochog]

Auburn is doable at home. Revenge factor

Based on that logic, we should have killed A&M because they have beat us 5 straight

[lakecityhog]

A while back the debate was which 2 games were the key to our season and several games were mentioned. Many thought that TCU/Texas A&M were very important, we went 0-2 for those.

So now in my mind the USCe game is the biggest game of the year, assuming that we take care of business with NMSU. Win those 2 and we are back to +1 and we do have a chance to win 6. Coastal gives us win #4 and we are only 2 wins from making it to 6.

I simply cannot see this team beating an Alabama team this year so that leaves us with 4 other chances. I'm not sure that we can win a shootout with a team capable of scoring  a lot of points and both Mississippi schools plus Missouri fit that mold. Can we over power LSU?

To get to 6 we have to pull 2 out of our hat and my guess is that the Home Field can maybe get us over the hump against Ole Miss and Missouri. Can we pull an upset and beat LSU on the road?? If we could that would be a major coup for BB. Finishing 7-5 would be more than we realistically should be hoping for right now.

[shotgun7]

Sept. 30 – NEW MEXICO STATE - Win
Oct. 7 – at South Carolina* - Win
Oct. 14 – at Alabama*- Likely loss
Oct. 21 – AUBURN* - Win
Oct. 28 – at Ole Miss* - Win
Nov. 4 – COASTAL CAROLINA - Win
Nov. 11 – at LSU* - Win
Nov. 18 – MISSISSIPPI STATE* - Toss Up
Nov. 25 – MISSOURI* - Win

Still have a chance at a decent season...

[From Tusk Till Dawn]

Im as disappointed as everyone else that we are where we are.  But if im being realistic theres only 2-3 teams that look the part in the SEC this year.  So who are we so scared of?  Leaving bama out of the convo, who do we think isnt beatable.  Is the consensus that we dont have a punchers chance against the rest of the west?  I think 7-5 is doable.

[shotgun7]

Im as disappointed as everyone else that we are where we are.  But if im being realistic theres only 2-3 teams that look the part in the SEC this year.  So who are we so scared of?  Leaving bama out of the convo, who do we think isnt beatable.  Is the consensus that we dont have a punchers chance against the rest of the west?  I think 7-5 is doable.

+1

[farmhawg]

Im as disappointed as everyone else that we are where we are.  But if im being realistic theres only 2-3 teams that look the part in the SEC this year.  So who are we so scared of?  Leaving bama out of the convo, who do we think isnt beatable.  Is the consensus that we dont have a punchers chance against the rest of the west?  I think 7-5 is doable.

Nice second poast.

[RazorChuck]

3 and 9, no bowl and the same next year.

[GTOWNHOG]

Take a look at the rest of the schedule:


Sept. 30 – NEW MEXICO STATE
Oct. 7 – at South Carolina*
Oct. 14 – at Alabama*
Oct. 21 – AUBURN*
Oct. 28 – at Ole Miss*
Nov. 4 – COASTAL CAROLINA
Nov. 11 – at LSU*
Nov. 18 – MISSISSIPPI STATE*
Nov. 25 – MISSOURI*

New Mexico State, either Ole Miss or MS. ST., Coastal Carolina, & Missouri.  5-7 for the season.  In Bret's 5th year. 

Arkansas has not won a conference championship in football since 1989.

[Simple Swineman]

Sept. 30 – NEW MEXICO STATE - Win
Oct. 7 – at South Carolina* - Win
Oct. 14 – at Alabama*- Likely loss
Oct. 21 – AUBURN* - Win
Oct. 28 – at Ole Miss* - Win
Nov. 4 – COASTAL CAROLINA - Win
Nov. 11 – at LSU* - Win
Nov. 18 – MISSISSIPPI STATE* - Toss Up
Nov. 25 – MISSOURI* - Win

Still have a chance at a decent season...

Similar to my thoughts. Preseason I thought this would be an 8-4 year with 9-3 best case and 7-5 worst case. I still see it that way now that I've seen all the other teams play.

Preseason I had us with definite losses to Bama and LSU. Then splitting between TCU, A&M, USCe, and Auburn. That's 8-4.

After watching the first few weeks I see that TCU is far better than I expected and LSU is far worse than I expected. Other than that, I haven't seen anything that would change my mind.

[GTOWNHOG]

Sept. 30 – NEW MEXICO STATE - Win
Oct. 7 – at South Carolina* - Win
Oct. 14 – at Alabama*- Likely loss
Oct. 21 – AUBURN* - Win
Oct. 28 – at Ole Miss* - Win
Nov. 4 – COASTAL CAROLINA - Win
Nov. 11 – at LSU* - Win
Nov. 18 – MISSISSIPPI STATE* - Toss Up
Nov. 25 – MISSOURI* - Win

Still have a chance at a decent season...

I want some of what you're smoking.... 

[HoggyCat]

Borrow some wins from next year.

[HognotinMemphis]

So many here are extremists. It's 9-3 before the season then 3-9 once their optimistic bubble has been burst.

I said 6-6 before the season and I still think 6-6 will be the outcome. 3-5 in SEC.

[shotgun7]

I want some of what you're smoking.... 

Alabama is the only team on the schedule that will likely demolish us, if we can get a few things figured out we have a decent chance against the rest so why not.

[Hawgphat]

Heavily grown over with weeds with thistles, and with a huge fallen tree across it.

[jkstock04]

So many here are extremists. It's 9-3 before the season then 3-9 once their optimistic bubble has been burst.

I said 6-6 before the season and I still think 6-6 will be the outcome. 3-5 in SEC.

Did you have A&M and TCU as losses with us going 6-6?

[hogcard1964]

So many here are extremists. It's 9-3 before the season then 3-9 once their optimistic bubble has been burst.

I said 6-6 before the season and I still think 6-6 will be the outcome. 3-5 in SEC.

I had us at 7-5 and am still holding with that.  We still have winnable games against NMSU, USCe, Auburn, Coastal Carolina, LSU and Mizzou.

[KennyForAD]

We are so Vandy now

[HognotinMemphis]

Did you have A&M and TCU as losses with us going 6-6?

Yes.