Nothing like waiting until the last minute.
As Arkansas opens its 2023 football season Saturday against Western Carolina, there are high hopes for the Razorbacks in coach Sam Pittman’s fourth years. Most significantly, Arkansas finally doesn’t have a ridiculously hard schedule.
More like a regularly hard schedule. The Hogs play in the SEC, after all.
Editor E. Wayne has come within one game each of the last four years of picking Arkansas’ end-of-regular-season record. But the difficulty was amped this year for two reasons.
One, the aforementioned schedule. Two, who knows what Arkansas’ wide receivers and revamped defense will do. If it’s on the positive, those nine wins the Hogs homers have could happen. If it’s on the negative, hello five-win season.
Well, turns out, Wayne is leaning in one direction more strongly than the other. Here are his game-by-game picks for the season.