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Six games into the season, Chris Marshall hasn’t let anybody else lead Arkansas in receiving yards.
He’s been the team’s top receiver in yards every single week. No Razorback wideout had done that since Anthony Eubanks went nine straight games in 1996.
That was 30 years ago.
Marshall gets his next shot when the Hogs visit Vanderbilt at 6 p.m. Saturday. Kickoff is at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, and ESPN2 has the broadcast.
He’s also first in the SEC in catches that gain 10 or more yards. His 27 of those rank third in the country.
When the Hogs need a big gain, those numbers tell you where the ball’s probably going.
A long road back to Nashville
It’s been a while since the Razorbacks made this trip.
Saturday marks 5,467 days since Arkansas last played at Vanderbilt.
The program hasn’t gone that long without visiting a current league opponent’s home field since it joined the Southwest Conference in 1915.
To be fair, four schools in today’s SEC weren’t in the league back then. Texas A&M, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas all joined after the Hogs’ last stop in Nashville.
That game was played Oct. 29, 2011. Arkansas won 31-28.
The two teams haven’t seen each other anywhere since 2018. This will be meeting No. 11.
The Razorbacks lead the series 7-3. They’ve never lost at Vanderbilt, going 4-0 there.
Bogle keeps piling up stops
Linebacker Ben Bogle has been the busiest man on the Arkansas defense.
He’s topped the team in tackles two weeks in a row. He made nine last week against No. 15 Tennessee and 16 in Week 5 at Texas A&M.
The last Razorback to lead the team outright in back-to-back games was Jaheim Thomas. He did it through the first four games of 2023.
Bogle, who’s from Florida, has 44 tackles at the halfway point. That count includes 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack.
His two pass breakups lead the team. He’s got a fumble recovery, too.
Up front, defensive lineman Quincy Rhodes Jr. leads the Hogs with three sacks.
Loose balls keep bouncing their way
Rhodes, a North Little Rock native, also scooped up a fumble against Tennessee and returned it 58 yards. The last Hog to go farther on a fumble return was Kam Curl, who took one 69 yards for a touchdown at Ole Miss in 2019.
The Razorbacks have been good at getting the ball back this year.
They’ve recovered four fumbles already.
They had three all of last season.
That puts Arkansas fourth in the SEC and 22nd nationally in fumbles recovered.
The extra possessions didn’t save the Hogs against Tennessee, though. That one still ended in a loss.
Points have been a sure thing
Arkansas hasn’t been held scoreless in a long time.
The Hogs have put up points in 64 straight games. Only five streaks in school history have lasted longer.
The last run this long went 64 games, from Nov. 14, 1987, to Nov. 11, 1995.
Arkansas was last shut out Oct. 2, 2021, in a loss to No. 2 Georgia.
Extra points have been even more automatic. The Razorbacks have made 239 in a row, dating to Dec. 5, 2020.
No team in the country has an active streak that started earlier.
Gilbert adds some leg
Max Gilbert hit the longest kick of his career last week.
He drilled a 55-yard field goal against Tennessee.
No Arkansas kicker had made one from that far since Matthew Shipley’s 55-yarder against Ole Miss in 2024.
Gilbert’s kick kept another streak alive. An Arkansas kicker has made at least one field goal of 50 or more yards in six straight seasons, from 2021 through 2026.
If Saturday’s game gets tight late, that leg could matter.
