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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.
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We won’t know if KJ is ready until we can see for ourselves
KJ Jefferson is going to be behind center for Arkansas’ season opener Sept. 4 and nobody has a clue right now if he’ll still be there in November.
Whether that’s due to performance or still standing upright is open to argument.
It’s a crapshoot in the SEC on how long running quarterbacks will hang around and it’s sounding more and more like Sam Pittman is counting on his ability to be a threat in the running game.
Evaluations are difficult, too.
“It’s just hard in scrimmages for him a lot of times to get into a routine because he’s so powerful as a runner,” Pittman said after the first live scrimmage Saturday.
Nobody gets to touch the quarterbacks these days. For teams that don’t view their quarterback as a key part of the running game it works itself out before halftime of the opener.
Things can take a little longer for runners.
“That’s the hardest part going into it as a quarterback,” Jefferson said Saturday. “In scrimmages, being limited with making plays with our legs, it’s kind of hard, but you’ve got to adjust to it, basically.
“We all treat it as adversity, knowing we can’t run as much, so let’s focus on the part where we’re making great decisions with the ball, getting the ball down the field and getting the ball to the playmakers.”
That last part is going to be the key. Jefferson has playmakers at the receiver positions. He’s just got to get them the ball and let them make plays because he’s probably not going to run the Hogs to a bowl game by himself.
Has shown the physical tools to get the job done.
“The offense rides around him,” safety Jalen Catalon said about Jefferson. “The offense moves as KJ moves. Hhe’s done a great job of realizing that, and just making plays, making the right reads.
“Everybody on the offensive side is doing their job and it’s helping KJ out a lot.”
Quarterback has become the most important position on every team in college football these days. If you don’t have a good one, well, there won’t be many wins. Without a great one nobody has won a championship.
Jefferson might be good, maybe even great.
But we won’t know until we get some answers.
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