Saturday Down South’s Connor O’Gara is ready to put the Gators in the top two or three teams in the league but is shocked at flip of Hogs, LSU.
Pittman ready to leave lamp behind, re-join team Wednesday for LSU game
Sam Pittman said at the end of his press conference Monday it would be the last time to see the lamp from home as he will be back Wednesday.
Hogs’ game with Missouri set for Saturday morning after Thanksgiving
In addition to not being played on the day after Thanksgiving, the SEC announced today the game with Missouri will kick off at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28.
The game will be televised on the SEC Network and can be heard online at HitThatLine.com or on the radio at ESPN Arkansas 95.3 in the River Valley, 96.3 in Hot Springs and 104.3 in Harrison-Mountain Home.
The SEC Football Championship Game will be played December 19 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, rescheduled from the original date of December 5.
The SEC will utilize Dec. 19 as a playing date for football games rescheduled during the 2020 season due to the impact of COVID-19 and has established parameters that allow for the adjustment of game opponents.
The schedule allows one mid-season open date for each school and an open date on Dec. 12 for all schools.
The Razorbacks host LSU weekend for an 11 a.m. kick on Saturday, Nov. 21. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network.
Kickoff and television arrangements to date:
* Home games in bold
Sept. 26: Georgia (SEC Network), 3 p.m.
Oct. 3: at Mississippi State (SEC Network Alternate), 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 10: at Auburn (SEC Network), 3 p.m.
Oct. 17: Ole Miss (ESPN2), 2:30 p.m.
Oct. 31: at Texas A&M (SEC Network), 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 7: Tennessee (SEC Network), 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 14: at Florida (ESPN), 6 p.m.
Nov. 21: LSU (ESPN or SEC Network), 11 a.m.
Nov. 28: at Missouri (SEC Network), 11 a.m.
Dec. 5: Alabama (TBA), TBA
Murphy recapping Razorbacks’ 63-35 loss to Florida, looking ahead to LSU
Democrat-Gazette writer Tom Murphy looked back at the Gators just overwhelming the Hogs plus what he expects for the Tigers’ game.
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This week, Hogs’ Franks will be best quarterback on field against LSU
Arkansas defensive coordinator Barry Odom isn’t the only coach in football that’s pretty good at watching film and coming up with some pretty good answers.
Dan Mullen’s offensive staff at Florida did a pretty good job of that, plus they had better players a little better, which is why the 62-35 win Saturday night shouldn’t be that shocking.
Quarterback Kyle Trask threw himself into the Heisman Tophy spotlight with six touchdowns, throwing past the Razorbacks’ linebacker duo of Bumper Pool and Grant Morgan, who combined for 22 tackles … just a little above some of their individual best nights.
The Hogs couldn’t get consistent pressure on Trask, who had receivers talented enough to simply slice up the secondary.
Arkansas’ defense played hard and made a few plays, but the Gators are on a path that has multiple options of landing them in the College Football Playoff this year. This is their best team in over a decade.
Odom’s main task after this one was not letting Florida beat the Hogs twice.
“I talked to our team inside about life is made of a series of moments not defined by one single moment,” Odom said later. “Just like we won’t be defined by this moment. We’ll be defined on how we respond to this.”
LSU is coming up next and no one could have predicted back in the summer just how this game has turned from “no way” the Hogs could win to being favored from 1.5 to 3.5 points in the first Vegas odds Sunday.
Multiple people in Baton Rouge told me the Tigers get nearly all of their players back by Tuesday from the contact tracing quarantine that postponed the Alabama game last weekend. All of the chaos in college football is not being caused by positive tests but the quarantine factor for folks that have no symptoms and never test positive.
But Saturday night, offensive coordinator Kendal Briles called about as good of a game with what he had as possible.
The Hogs hit “explosive plays” (it’s not “chunk” or “big” plays this year). Feleipe Franks connected twice with Mike Woods for 129 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Trelon Smith broke free for an 83-yard touchdown run.
Florida wasn’t going to let Treylon Burks get free. He did end up with three catches for 47 yards, mostly on slant patterns.
When it counted the Hogs couldn’t stay on the field on third down (just 3-of-9) and couldn’t get the Gators off the field on third down (9-of-12).
Plus the special teams questions continued. Not that the Hogs didn’t anything horrific against the Gators, but De’Vion Warren had four kickoff returns for 84 yards. That’s an average of 21 yards per return and you get the ball at the 25 on a touchback, which means they were trying to pop a big play.
Most of the pregame attention was on quarterback Feleipe Franks returning to Florida.
If Franks is as efficient against LSU this week as he was Saturday, the Hogs have a good chance at winning.
His biggest problem is not getting rid of the ball quick enough to avoid sacks. That’s a combination of being stubborn about giving up on a play and an offensive line that isn’t great.
Franks is the best deep passer for the Hogs since Joe Ferguson (and, yes, I’m putting him ahead of Ryan Mallett, who couldn’t drop throws in the tiny holes Franks does). He is not a runner, but he can run enough to turn a zero play into a positive one.
Most of all, though, no game has been too big for him. He’s been there, done that … and won at a high level.
This week he will be the best quarterback on the field against the Tigers.
And that could be enough.
Muschamp getting fired at South Carolina may start dominoes falling
According to multiple media reports, South Carolina has had all it wants of Will Muschamp as coach after an embarrassing loss at Ole Miss on Saturday night.
BREAKING: #SouthCarolina has parted ways with Will Muschamp, per sources.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) November 16, 2020
Muschamp, who rode a reputation as a defensive mind developed under Nick Saban to a head coaching stint at Florida, was almost toyed with by Lane Kiffin and the Rebels’ offense in a 59-42 loss.
Now the annual game of coaching musical chairs can officially start as more and more teams start firing coaches before Thanksgiving so they can start finding a replacement.
It will be interesting to see the people that are anxious to take over an SEC school that is second best in it’s own state (behind Clemson). The Gamecocks haven’t beaten the Tigers since 2013.
Muschamp’s closest loss to the in-state rival was a 56-35 loss in 2018.
The loss Saturday was made worse by how much offense Ole Miss put on Muschamp’s defense. Matt Corral threw for 513 yards and the Rebels ran for another 195.
The Gamecocks (2-5) have allowed a total of 159 points during their three-game losing streak and gave up 708 yards of total offense in the loss to Ole Miss.
Muschamp, in his fifth season as South Carolina’s coach, was 28-30 overall. Muschamp recorded more wins in his first three seasons (22) than any coach in school history and trailed only Steve Spurrier (28) after four seasons as South Carolina’s coach.
But the Gamecocks finished 4-8 a year ago and have lost 14 of their past 20 games dating back to the 28-0 Belk Bowl defeat to Virginia to end the 2018 season.
According to the terms of Muschamp’s contract, his buyout was in the $15 million range if he were to be fired at the end of this season, although Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports tweeted it was slightly lower.
Will Muschamp’s buyout is just north of $13 million. It was cut slightly as part of the most recent amendment to his contract. There had been growing concern among school officials and supporters that continued fan apathy could cost South Carolina more.
— Josh Kendall (@JoshTheAthletic) November 16, 2020
This is the second time Muschamp has been fired from an SEC head-coaching job. He was dismissed by Florida toward the end of the 2014 season and coached the final two games before stepping away.
He spent the 2015 season at Auburn as the Tigers’ defensive coordinator.
Mullen impressed with how Franks has handled improving Hogs this year
Florida coach Dan Mullen got a chance to catch up with former quarterback Feleipe Franks and had high praise for his performance this year.
Trask on going against former teammate Franks in Gators’ win Saturday night
Florida quarterback Kyle Trask took over for Feleipe Franks last season and is now among best in league and they talked after game Saturday.
Odom shoulders blame for Razorbacks’ 63-35 loss at Florida on Saturday night
Interim coach Barry Odom tried to take the blame after the whopping loss to the Gators after filling in for Sam Pittman after Covid positive test.
Franks after Saturday night’s loss on ‘lifetime bond’ with Gators’ Mullen, Trask
Hogs quarterback Feleipe Franks spent most of his time after the 63-35 loss to Florida talking with coach Dan Mullen and QB Kyle Trask.










