Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story
Arkansas has a 2:30 p.m. date in Austin.
The Southeastern Conference set the time Monday for the Razorbacks’ Nov. 21 game at Texas. It’ll be on ABC or ESPN. Which one is still up in the air.
An afternoon kickoff on the road isn’t a bad draw. You can watch the whole thing and still make it to supper.
Plenty of folks in Arkansas will take that deal. Late kickoffs out of Texas can turn into a long night on the couch.
This is the second year in a row the Hogs have had to make the trip to Austin for this one.
There’s one number that probably bugs Arkansas fans the most. It’s 2003.
That’s the last time the Hogs won there. Sept. 13, 2003. Arkansas 38, Texas 28.
They’ve been back twice since. They lost both times.
The Nov. 21 meeting will be the 79th between these two programs.
Texas leads it 55-23.
That’s 78 games already in the books. The Longhorns have won more than twice as many as Arkansas.
Nobody in Fayetteville needs a reminder about that. It’s been lopsided for a long time.
Still, a win in Austin would carry weight on its own, no matter how the all-time count reads.
Twenty-three years of coming home empty-handed is plenty. Hogs fans have heard about that skid enough. They’d like to quit hearing about it.
The Razorbacks don’t have to fix the whole series in one afternoon. They just need one win in a stadium that hasn’t been kind to them.
Before any of that, there’s another game.
No. 20 South Carolina comes to Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium this Saturday, Nov. 14.
It’s the Hogs’ last home game before they head to Texas.
The Gamecocks showed up in the College Football Playoff selection committee’s first rankings. This won’t be a tune-up.
Kickoff is 6:45 p.m. on SEC Network.
So it’s a ranked team at home at night, then a trip to Texas the next week. Not exactly an easy stretch.
A good showing Saturday would give the Hogs something to carry into that trip.
Arkansas can’t afford to peek ahead to Austin. Texas isn’t going anywhere.
Tickets are available through the Razorback Ticket Center at 479-575-5151. You can also buy Arkansas football tickets online.
The game will be streamed on HitThatLine.com and you can listen on the radio at ESPN Arkansas 93.7 and 99.5 in Fayetteville, 96.3 in Fort Smith and the River Valley, 96.3 in Hot Springs and 104.3 in Harrison-Mountain Home.
South Carolina comes first, though. Get through that one, and then the Razorbacks have a week to figure out how to finally win down there.
