LIVE BLOG: Hogs taking advantage of Tigers’ miscues to lead at half

AUBURN, Ala. — Two teams looking to show they are better than a lot of people think in the SEC get their shot today.

Arkansas and Auburn are both 2-1, have a loss they feel they should have won and more questions than answers on both sides of the ball. At least for one weekend they’ll have a chance to show something.

Or generate more questions.

Nobody can blame the weather. It is a sun-splashed stadium at Jordan-Hare as kickoff approaches. Stick with us to keep up with views and highlights from the game as it plays out.

FIRST QUARTER

Crowd noise starting to play a role in game. Razorbacks get delay before runnning a play, then drive down and Kyle Ramsey pushes a 41-yard field goal attempt wide to the right. Hogs’ offense completely driven by quarterback Taylen Green, who is just taking off and running like he did a lot against UAB. Tyrone Broden and Andrew Armstrong dropped a couple of passes in the drive that ended on a sack by Dorion Mausi for a 7-yard loss.

2Q 14:47: Green leads the Razorbacks on a 15-play, 81-yard drive that was capped by Jackson bulling his way over the goal. Offense moving methodically and chewing up clock, keeping the ball for 11:41 of the first quarter, but they have the lead. Hogs 7, Tigers 0

For a game that’s only seen one touchdown, there’s been a ton of things going on:

• Armstrong was nearly cut in half making a catch in the first quarter, but returned to action and resumed being Green’s primary target.

• The player that delivered a completely legal and clean hit, Champ Anthony, was injured moments later and it appeared serious as he was carted off the field. It was more serious than what he delivered on Armstrong.

• Auburn quarterback Hank Brown took momentum away from the Tigers with a pair of draining interceptions. Those looked to be inexperience as much as anything else.

• The Tigers have turned the ball over four times in the first half, including one where running back Damari Alston was either going to be in the end zone or down inside the Hogs’ 5-yard line when it was knocked loose by TJ Metcalf and recovered in the end zone by Stephen Dix.

• The Razorbacks have one turnover, an interception by Green. We’ll see if anything like this turns into points in the second half.