Nearly half of Hogs’ schedule in first media Top 25 poll

There was sort of good news and bad news for Arkansas football in the Associated Press’ first poll for this season released Monday.

It could be viewed only five opponents on the schedule are ranked in the first poll. The coaches poll had six with another one or two just on the edge of slipping inside the Top 25.

The bad news is three of them are in the first five weeks of the season and only one is in Razorback Stadium.

Texas, who will come to Fayetteville on Sept. 11, is No. 21 in the poll after being 19th in the coaches poll. Whether you think that’s too high for the Longhorns is not relevant … that’s the ranking.

The schedule gets tougher pretty quickly.

The Hogs go to Arlington to play sixth-ranked Texas A&M on Sept. 25, then to Georgia against the No. 5 team in the country the following weekend.

LSU is ranked 16th in the preseason poll and Alabama, of course, is sitting at No. 1.

Oklahoma, who will be coming up on the schedule whenever they start playing in the SEC, is the second-ranked team in the preseason poll.

Ole Miss, who pops up on the Hogs’ schedule Oct. 9, was ranked in the coaches’ preseason poll but is No. 27 in the media poll released Monday.