The polls say Arkansas beating Ole Miss on Saturday in Oxford wouldn’t be an upset. Las Vegas, ESPN, most prognosticators say differently.
Ole Miss was projected to be a Top-25, or close to it, team in 2021. The Rebels even vultured a pick in the preseason to win the SEC West. Arkansas, on the other hand, wasn’t sniffing the top of the division. The Hogs won three games last year with all three coming in the SEC, anyway.
But this season the Razorbacks find themselves at 4-1 with upset wins (well, they were upsets at the time) over Texas and Texas A&M. A loss to Georgia was Arkansas’ first loss last week. Ole Miss was supposed to beat every team it has but were outmatched by Alabama last week.
Still, the numbers suggest Ole Miss beats Arkansas in Oxford on Saturday.
Here are three reasons the Hogs can avoid such a fate.