Who doesn’t love a good bowl projection?
Despite being over 250 days away from bowl season, Brad Crawford of 247sports has released his predictions for bowl matchups following the conclusion of the 2022 regular season. Where does he believe Arkansas football will end their season? In Nashville, Tenn. against the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Music City Bowl.
With the amount, and caliber, of transfers such as [autotag]Jadon Haselwood[/autotag], [autotag]Drew Sanders,[/autotag] and [autotag]Latavious Brini[/autotag], mixed in with the return of quarterback [autotag]KJ Jefferson[/autotag] and the progression of the program under head coach [autotag]Sam Pittman[/autotag], Razorback fans may feel that ending the season in the Music City Bowl would be a letdown. However, it would mean that Arkansas would be bowl eligible for the second straight season, the first time that Arkansas has been bowl eligible in consecutive seasons since 2016 when they competed in the Liberty Bowl to close the 2015 season, and concluded the 2016 season in the Belk Bowl.
If the prediction were to come true, it would be the 2nd time in program history that Arkansas has faced Iowa. In their only meeting, the Hawkeyes defeated Arkansas 26-0 in Iowa City, Iowa on October 3, 1925. It would also be just the 12th time that Arkansas has faced a team from the Big Ten Conference, where they hold a 3-8 record against competition from said conference.
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