2. AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Arkansas 55, Kansas 53 OT
Pre-Bowl Matchup Ranking: 21
Pre-Bowl Ranking: 2021: 4, 2020: 20, 2019: 6
Post-Bowl Ranking: 2021: 31, 2020: 6, 2019: 7
And to think, most of America turned to other bowl games or did something more meaningful with their lives after Arkansas went up 38-13 in the third quarter. And why not?
The Hog running game couldn’t be stopped, Kansas couldn’t get going, and this thing was going to be thrown into the woodchipper along with countless other totally forgettable bowls.
And then it all flipped.
Kansas wouldn’t give up, Arkansas did just about everything wrong – and caught a few bad breaks along the way – and everything improbable became a given.
You want a bad call on a Hog fumble after a really bad idea to keep pushing the O when the game was all but over because Kansas had no timeouts left? Okay.
You want a defense that all of a sudden made KU QB Jalon Daniels look like Joe Montana? You want to see a kid throw for 544 yards and look exactly like Joe Montana when he led the epic comeback over Houston in the fabled “chicken soup” – Montana was sick and the game was played in freezing conditions – in the 1979 Cotton Bowl?
You want a targeting call on a two-point conversion to keep the game alive double-overtime – and after Arkansas started celebrating on the field?
You want 1,284 yards of total offense and 106 points in one of the wildest bowl games of all-time?
Yeah, you do. And you – almost certainly – turned off the game at 38-13.
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