YOUR Arkansas Razorbacks 2023 season prediction thread!

[animal]

Byu is capable of being 3-5 in the sec so losing to them is about like losing to Miss State or Missouri but you deal with it, tell yourself the aforementioned stuff...then on to our rape date.

[Thin Red Swine]

It's all predicated on this 4 game stretch. Go 0-fer and this team likely falls apart and finishes 4-8. Win 1 we otherwise shouldn't and a bowl is still in play. Still a disappointment but not a total disaster.

This stretch alone is enough to make it unfavorable. We could go 0-fer and/or be physically and mentally beat up and have no gas left in the tank for the "easy" part.

The latter part includes games at a place we've never won against a team we've beaten once in 10 tries, one team that has beaten us 7 of the last 10 (usually by being more physical) and another team we routinely step on our dicks against and that has beaten us 7 of the last 9.

I said 7-5 was the ceiling, and that assumed beating BYU. Now I think 6-6 would be a minor miracle.

[mde114]

Byu is capable of being 3-5 in the sec so losing to them is about like losing to Miss State or Missouri but you deal with it, tell yourself the aforementioned stuff...then on to our rape date.

Are they?

Does that mean Kansas would win it? Kansas is a 9.5 point favorite over BYU this weekend. Beating us at home doesn't carry any respect.

[BleedinRed]

LSU = Not as good as anyone thought they would be to start the season.  They are been better at times over the last 5 years.

Texas A&M = no better than they have been every other year.  We always should beat them but end up losing

Ole Miss = They may be better but so far they look no different than any other year

Alabama = Clearly down and beatable.

Those are the the teams we play in this four game stretch.  That is not overly tough of a stretch for a good team to navigate.

[Show-Me Hog]

not overly tough of a stretch for a good team to navigate.

Where can we find one of those?

[egregious]

Where can we find one of those?

Someone mentioned Kansas in another thread.

[animal]

Are they?

Does that mean Kansas would win it? Kansas is a 9.5 point favorite over BYU this weekend. Beating us at home doesn't carry any respect.

Hey hey lets not go stroking off Ku just yet. Well traveling for road games in consecutive weeks is hard on any Mormon.

[egregious]

Hey hey lets not go stroking off Ku just yet. Well traveling for road games in consecutive weeks is hard on any Mormon.

Don't worry, I jinxed them right above you.

[Thin Red Swine]

LSU = Not as good as anyone thought they would be to start the season.  They are been better at times over the last 5 years.

Texas A&M = no better than they have been every other year.  We always should beat them but end up losing

Ole Miss = They may be better but so far they look no different than any other year

Alabama = Clearly down and beatable.

Those are the the teams we play in this four game stretch.  That is not overly tough of a stretch for a good team to navigate.

Before the season, none of that was expected other than aTm. And now that we see what we have, there's no reason to think those teams won't still have enough to beat us at their home fields (and JerryWorld) even if they're no different or down. We needed to step up but instead stepped down.

[BleedinRed]

Before the season, none of that was expected other than aTm. And now that we see what we have, there's no reason to think those teams won't still have enough to beat us at their home fields (and JerryWorld) even if they're no different or down. We needed to step up but instead stepped down.

I expected it.  But then, I expected Arkansas to be good too.  So, wtf do I know.  We will always be slightly worse than most of the teams we play.   That is what I've come to realize over the last 5 days.  

[bigpig]

I expected it.  But then, I expected Arkansas to be good too.  So, wtf do I know.  We will always be slightly worse than most of the teams we play.   That is what I've come to realize over the last 5 days. 

Except we weren't slightly worse than BYU. We doubled them up on yards and only lost because of a few critical bone headed decisions, and one piss poor OL.

I'll accept that we're just a little outclassed when we go out there and play great football and lose by a field goal.

[BleedinRed]

Except we weren't slightly worse than BYU. We doubled them up on yards and only lost because of a few critical bone headed decisions, and one piss poor OL.

I'll accept that we're just a little outclassed when we go out there and play great football and lose by a field goal.

Well, BYU beat us.  So, we are slightly worse than BYU.

At some point, if you want to be considered good, you have to win.  And we don't win at any rate that would indicate that we are anything better than 12-14 in the league.

Frank got shit for what he said but he was spot on correct; we are 8th or 9th (with expansion it is now 10th or 11th) in potential.  40 years fucking proves that true. 

[Show-Me Hog]

Well, BYU beat us.  So, we are slightly worse than BYU.

At some point, if you want to be considered good, you have to win.  And we don't win at any rate that would indicate that we are anything better than 12-14 in the league.

Frank got shit for what he said but he was spot on correct; we are 8th or 9th (with expansion it is now 10th or 11th) in potential.  40 years fucking proves that true.

30 but who's counting.

[BleedinRed]

30 but who's counting.

30 years vs 40 years of true suck.  I still don't think those additional 10 years really help a whole lot.  Losing to Texas and the bowl games.  Again, do just enough to feel like a power house without actually winning the one or two games a year that truly matter.

But I agree, lets lop those off and stick to the last 30 years.

1992	3-7-1	3-4-1	4th (West)	Jack Crowe/Joe Kines		Stats
1991	6-6	5-3	T-2nd	Jack Crowe	L, Independence Bowl	Stats
1990	3-8	1-7	7th	Jack Crowe		Stats
1989	10-2	7-1	1st	Ken Hatfield	L, Cotton Bowl	Stats
1988	10-2	7-0	1st	Ken Hatfield	L, Cotton Bowl
1987	9-4	5-2	T-2nd	Ken Hatfield	L, Liberty Bowl
1986	9-3	6-2	T-2nd	Ken Hatfield	L, Orange Bowl
1985	10-2	6-2	T-2nd	Ken Hatfield	W, Holiday Bowl
1984	7-4-1	5-3	T-3rd	Ken Hatfield	L, Liberty Bowl
1983	6-5	4-4	5th	Lou Holtz

Remember when Citadel was the one that broke the camels back?  Now it is almost expected.

 

[Show-Me Hog]

I just meant that 30 years in the SEC proves what we are, SEC wise.

[BleedinRed]

I just meant that 30 years in the SEC proves what we are, SEC wise.

Ah.  Got it.

[Lurk]

I should have quit the hogs in 1969 when I was 8. The Big Shootout followed by the screwing we took in the Sugar Bowl.

Followed that up with the decline in Broyles later years.

1977 Damn, we were good. Should have been National Champions even with the 13-9 loss to Texas(as usual). Notre Dame bias screwed us. A few more good years and I think Lou got bored.

Kenny was a good coach, he just couldn't beat Texas in years that we should have and got exposed in bowl games.

I prefer to block out the Crowe/Ford years.

Damn, I hate Nutt.

We're back and should be good for a while... shit.

Back to blocking it out.

[Thin Red Swine]

I should have quit the hogs in 1969 when I was 8. The Big Shootout followed by the screwing we took in the Sugar Bowl.

Followed that up with the decline in Broyles later years.

1977 Damn, we were good. Should have been National Champions even with the 13-9 loss to Texas(as usual). Notre Dame bias screwed us. A few more good years and I think Lou got bored.

Kenny was a good coach, he just couldn't beat Texas in years that we should have and got exposed in bowl games.

I prefer to block out the Crowe/Ford years.

Damn, I hate Nutt.

We're back and should be good for a while... shit.

Back to blocking it out.

I think the '77 team was slightly but not a lot better than the '88 team (except maybe defensively). I know that was the UCLA debacle but it was such a letdown to be in that position after literally letting the Miami game slip through our fingers.

Other than '69, there are six seasons with at least a puncher's chance to be standing tall at the end, but we couldn't come through in the biggest moments.  1977, 1988, 1998, 2006, 2010 and 2011.

[Piggielicious]

Beating us at home doesn't carry any respect.

Nor should it. We have been largely irrelevant to downright pathetic since the motorcycle wreck. Sam was hired because no one wanted this job after what Bert and Chad did to the program. Until they make better head coaching hires, the football program will continue to be bad.

[red death]

I saw where if Sam goes 4-8 this year his buyout drops 5 million.  Basically he gets less if his overall record is losing. 

He's 21-18 now.  Just something to think about with Yurachek if the wheels fall off.

I think he gets a final year at 4-8 but he probably needs to win at least 5.  3-9 or 2-10 he's gone.