Tye & Tommy on the recent game times for Arkansas football, ranking the schedule and more!
Brown on Bears’ late win to open season, playing UAB on Thursday night
After a win over Austin Peay last weekend, UCA now goes on the road again for Thursday matchup with Alabama-Birmingham on ESPN.
Brown also talked about the extensive covid-19 testing the team goes through and how every person on the sideline has very recently been negative … or they wouldn’t be on the sidelines.
He told Tye Richardson and Tommy Craft (The Morning Rush) on ESPN Arkansas on Wednesday morning the team had just finished their latest round of testing in Birmingham in advance of Thursday night’s game.
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Pittman on figuring out offensive line, what he’s looking for in final scrimmage
Arkansas coach Sam Pittman talked Tuesday afternoon about trying to fit pieces together in offensive line before Friday’s final scrimmage of fall.
Tuesday’s Sights & Sounds from Hogs’ fall camp going indoors for first time
Hogs coach Sam Pittman said he wanted a change and took fall practice indoors Tuesday, which was the first time this fall.
Hutchinson expects Boyd to be utilized more in Hogs’ passing game this year
One of the things Rakeem Boyd came back for his final year was to work on the passing game and Andrew Hutchinson is looking to see him more involved in that area.
Hogs’ season opener kickoff time, TV network set, plus four other games
Arkansas’ season opener against Georgia will kick off at 3 p.m. on Sept. 26 at Razorback Stadium on the SEC Network, according to an announcement Tuesday.
The Southeastern Conference has announced kickoff times and TV networks for five games on the 2020 Arkansas football schedule.
The Bulldogs are making their first trip to Fayetteville since 2009.
Arkansas’ week two matchup at Mississippi State on Saturday, Oct. 3, will be on SEC Network Alternate. The Razorbacks and Bulldogs will kick off at 6:30 p.m. and meet for the 29th-straight season.
The Saturday, Oct. 17, week four home matchup against Ole Miss will take place at 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m. or 3 p.m. on SEC Network or SEC Network Alternate or another ESPN platform.
The Razorbacks have won four of the last six matchups against the Rebels and will feature a matchup of first-year head coaches in Arkansas’ Sam Pittman and Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin.
Arkansas will travel to Texas A&M on Saturday, Oct. 31, for its week five matchup which will air on SEC Network. Kickoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. in the first on-campus meeting between the two schools since 2013 when the Aggies visited Fayetteville.
Tennessee makes the trip to Fayetteville for the first time since 2011 on Saturday, Nov. 7 for a 6:30 p.m. week six showdown that will air on ESPN or SEC Network.
The Hogs have won two of the last three games in the series.
For any games not chosen before the start of the season, the normal 12 or six-day selection process will be used during the season.
The 2020 SEC football season will be comprised of a 10-game Conference-only schedule and 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 schedule will include one mid-season open date for each school and an open date on December 12 for all schools.
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 (TBA), TBA
Oct. 17: Ole Miss (SEC Network or SEC Network Alternate or ESPN platform ), 11 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. or 3 p.m.
Oct. 31: at Texas A&M (SEC Network), 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 7: Tennessee (ESPN or SEC Network), 6:30 p.m.
Nov. 14: at Florida (TBA), TBA
Nov. 21: LSU (TBA), TBA
Nov. 28: at Missouri (TBA), TBA
Dec. 5: Alabama (TBA), TBA
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
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Hogs should find some sort of ‘ambassador’ role for D-Mac now
As Arkansas tries to dig a football program out of a monumental hole having Darren McFadden around and visible is something they need to figure out how to do.
Don’t look here for a title. I’m sure there are rules and regulations as to what they can and cannot do. It would probably violate every recruiting rule there is to have him in front of high school players as often as possible.
And don’t start with the coaching talk.
“Coaching may be a little above my head,” McFadden said Tuesday morning with Tye Richardson and Tommy Craft (The Morning Rush) on ESPN Arkansas. “I put those hours in so long playing football, I have two young kids at home and I missed a lot with my older boys growing up while I was on the road traveling a lot and all that.”
But Florida has done the ambassador type thing with Steve Spurrier, who is one of the icons of the Gators program. They basically wag him out before every game, he does some interviews and just talks about the program.
McFadden just wants to do something connected with the Razorbacks.
“To be able to come around, to be able to do something around the program and help out the guys, pass along some of my knowledge,” he said. “I’d love to be able to do that.”
Few former players stirs as many positive reactions in fans as McFadden. Two runner-up finishes for the Heisman Trophy, the Doak Walker, Maxwell Trophy are all hardware nobody else has won in their time.
Plus, he’s a home-grown talent, which is why the announcement last week of him joining the UA Hall of Honor is particularly special to him.
“Being an Arkansas kid, growing up in Arkansas, bleeding Razorback red (the Hall of Honor) is something you have to put up there at the top,” McFdadden said. “A lot of people might not look at it the same.
“When you look at the College Hall of Fame, Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, but just going into the Hall of Honor at the University …,” he said. “Growing up and wanting to be there my whole life, just be able to get in there is great.”
You would think the Hogs would find some way to get that kind of enthusiasm — and history of success wearing the uniform — around the program as much as possible.
It shouldn’t be that hard.
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