Arkansas lost to Ole Miss on Saturday by a point, but at the halfway juncture of the season, is firmly in the conversation for a division title.
The Razorbacks have games against Auburn, Mississippi State, LSU, Alabama and Missouri remaining.
With Alabama’s defeat at the hands of Texas A&M, the door has been opened for someone else besides the Crimson Tide to win the division.
Ole Miss obviously is in the driver’s seat, with only one conference loss and now a victory over Arkansas, but the Rebels do have the loss to Alabama.
Two more Rebel losses (to say, Texas A&M and Mississippi State), would give them three.
If Arkansas wins out and finishes 6-2 in league play, it would own a tiebreaker over Alabama at that point and would have defeated every other SEC West opponent.
Now obviously Sam Pittman and his staff aren’t going to get ahead of themselves and start talking like this to the team.
They are going to take it ‘one game at a time’ like the old cliché goes and see what happens.
Auburn now becomes the most important game on the schedule next Saturday at 11 a.m. in Fayetteville.
Win that, win a nonconference game in Little Rock and head into the bye week before November with a lot to play for.
As someone used to say, ‘they remember in November.’
Razorback fans hope that they remember a special season, maybe even a trip to Atlanta.