At the beginning of the season, Arkansas and Liberty probably wasn’t a game seen as too important on many Hogs fans’ radars.
But Saturday when Hugh Freeze brings his Flames to Fayetteville, the Razorbacks can book bowl-eligibility. And suddenly, with Liberty at 7-1, the game is a lot more interesting than it looked in August.
Freeze has plenty of familiarity with Arkansas. He coached Ole Miss from 2012-16. He even told his Flames players to prepared for the Hog Call early and often. The Razorbacks won three of the five meetings against the Rebels during the time Freeze was coach.
Liberty entered the Top 25 in both major polls last week at No. 23. Their visit to Fayetteville is the first in school history.
Little changed for Arkansas in the two-deep. Coach Sam Pittman announced Monday that last year’s starting running back Dominique Johnson would miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, but Johnson had played only sparingly this season as he was working his way back from an initial injury to his knee suffered late in the 2021 season.
You can see the entire depth chart for the game against the Flames below.