LSU to showcase the all-white combo at Arkansas this weekend.
LSU will be showcasing a different look when it travels to play Arkansas in this weekend. The Tigers will don the all-white uniform combo that fans are accustomed to seeing about once a year.
On Wednesday, LSU posted an image of the white helmet, white jersey, and white pants on social media. There weren’t any specifics about when LSU would wear the uniform, but there aren’t many other conclusions to jump to.
The last time LSU wore the all-whites was the 2023 regular-season finale when it beat Texas A&M on senior day. That was Jayden Daniels’ final game as a Tiger.
In 2022, LSU wore the combo when facing Tennessee at home. That one didn’t go the Tigers’ way, but [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] hasn’t lost in Tiger Stadium since.
This won’t be LSU’s first time in the white pants this year. Against South Alabama, the Tigers went with a gold helmet, white jersey, and white pants combination.
LSU wore the gold-purple-gold combo against UCLA, making the all-white LSU’s fourth jersey combination of the year.
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Can the Tigers avoid a letdown on the road against the Razorbacks?
LSU captured one of the most impactful wins of the [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] era on Saturday night, upsetting a top-10 Ole Miss team in overtime to move to 5-1 on the season and put itself back in the College Football Playoff picture.
But the road doesn’t get much easier from here, and now, the Tigers are tasked with avoiding a letdown on the road against an Arkansas team that’s having a stronger start to the year than many expected.
The Razorbacks are 4-2 and fresh off a bye week that followed their upset win over then-No. 4 Tennessee. They’re looking to take down their second top-10 opponent in a row on Saturday night in Fayetteville.
Here’s how our staff sees that game playing out.
Tyler Nettuno, Managing Editor
The Hogs have managed to give LSU fits in each of the last two years, but they’re searching for their first win in the series since 2021. I think the health of quarterback Taylen Green plays a major factor here, but he’s a big-time weapon on offense if he’s ready to go. I still have a lot more confidence in LSU’s defense after the way it played last week, however, and while Arkansas’ defense slowed down a Tennessee group that may have some issues, I don’t think it will have quite as much success against the Tigers.
Prediction: LSU 28, Arkansas 21
Will Rosenblatt, Staff Writer
LSU is back on the road this week, traveling to Arkansas after upsetting Ole Miss. Arkansas is coming off a bye, but the Razorbacks’ last time out, they pulled a top 10 upset off their own over Tennessee. Arkansas’ preseason win total was 4.5, but the Razorbacks already have four wins and Sam Pittman is coaching his way off the hot seat. Arkansas has the type of offense that can hurt LSU. The Hogs are explosive on the ground with a rushing threat at QB. WR Andrew Armstong will test LSU’s secondary too. Arkansas will score some points, but so will LSU. Arkansas will keep it close early, but LSU will take advantage of a questionable secondary late.
Prediction: LSU 37, Arkansas 31
Kyle Richardson, Staff Writer
The Tigers have got to be careful in this game against the Razorbacks. They can not suffer from a hangover after winning a hard fought game against Ole Miss in overtime. This is the SEC. You are going to be taken to your limit every week. With that being said, I think LSU will respond well and win this game.
Prediction: LSU 35, Arkansas 21
Composite Prediction
Prediction: LSU 33, Arkansas 24
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LSU will face Arkansas in Fayetteville at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN.
The game time and television network have now been announced for LSU’s road trip to face Arkansas in Week 8, and it will be a primetime matchup between former SEC West rivals.
This year’s Battle for the Golden Boot will kick off at 6 p.m. CT and air on ESPN.
While this wasn’t a game LSU had circled as one of its tougher matchups heading into the season, it could be a potential trap game as it’s sandwiched between games against ranked opponents in Ole Miss and Texas A&M. The Razorbacks are coming off a huge upset win as they knocked off No. 4 Tennessee at home on Saturday night.
Texas A&M RB Le’Veon Moss has been a bell cow for the Aggies through four games
Texas A&M (4-1, 2-0 SEC) and head coach Mike Elko will head back to Kyle Field next Saturday for an early afternoon after defeating Arkansas 21-17 in a close contest tied 14-14 for most of the game.
Offensively, the Aggies struggled to get things going after quarterback Marcel Reed tied the game with a 58-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Noah Thomas. A turnover in the red zone led to Reed running in another score to tie things up in the second quarter.
While it looked like both teams were in for a scoring fest, defense reigned supreme, and the Aggies struggled to find any production through the air until scoring the game’s final touchdown to take the eventual game-sealing lead. However, junior running back Le’Veon Moss was stellar in the second half, running for 90 of his 117 yards after rushing for only 27 yards in the first.
Even more impressive, Moss currently leads the SEC and is ranked 12th nationally in yards after contact with 351 of his 471 rushing yards. Moss’s 18 missed tackles on the year are good for fourth in the SEC, as the junior evaded five Arkansas tacklers on Saturday.
Coming into the season, the only worry regarding Moss was his availability, as his footwork, elite vision, and second-level burst always made him a player to watch this season. Entering Week 6, Moss is just 13 yards away from matching his career single-season rushing total from last season.
Moss exceeded the 1,000 career-yard mark with 1,069 after Saturday’s game.
Texas A&M will host Missouri on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 11:00 a.m. CT. The game will air on ABC and will be available for streaming on ESPN+.
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A pair of SEC football programs could get upset as conference play begins in earnest in Week 5.
Unless you’re hosting Mississippi State, there are no easy matchups in the SEC this college football season. The additions of Texas and Oklahoma strengthened an already elite college football conference, which now boasts nearly unbelievable depth heading into Week 5 of the season.
As such, it feels like every SEC team is on upset watch now that conference play is underway, although Texas is a safe bet (thanks to the aforementioned Mississippi State rule).
Ole Miss hosts Kentucky on Saturday and while the Wildcats gave everything they could to Georgia two weeks ago, the Rebels should pick up a win here thanks to the lite play of quarterback Jaxson Dart.
Let’s take a look at two SEC matchups this week where the ranked team could get upset, starting with Oklahoma’s first road game in conference play:
Oklahoma Sooners at Auburn Tigers
Saturday, September 28th at 3:30 PM ET
Oklahoma got a rough welcome to the SEC in Week 4, falling 25-15 to the Tennessee Volunteers in the program’s first loss of the season.
Prior to that, the Sooners looked vulnerable in a 16-12 win over Houston, widely considered the worst team in the Big 12, and even struggled against G5 opponent Tulane in Week 3.
There’s little doubt Oklahoma is a better team than Auburn, who is 2-2 with home losses to California and Arkansas, but the Tigers are are quality defensive program who could keep things interesting – and the Sooners have yet to prove they are ready for road matchups in the SEC.
Arkansas Razorbacks at Texas A&M Aggies
Saturday, September 28th at 3:30 PM ET
Texas A&M has won three straight after a season opening loss to Notre Dame, although the Aggies didn’t look particularly sharp in Week 4, a 26-20 win over Bowling Green, or Week 3 at Florida in a 13-point victory.
Meanwhile Arkansas comes into the game with some momentum, having gone on the road and taken down Auburn in Week 4.
Both Arkansas and Texas A&M average over 240 rushing yards per game, but the Hogs have proven far better at stopping the run this year, holding opponents to 82.8 yards on the ground – compared to 129.8 for A&M.
Whoever can establish their presence in the trenches and control the clock has a great chance of securing a Week 5 victory, and it’s hard to ignore a physical Arkansas team playing at home in this one.
When will college football learn not to pick fights with broadcast partners?
Whew, buddy, the pettiness escalated quickly across college football in Week 4.
Maybe we should’ve seen this coming. After all, this is the point in the season where teams start to figure out who’s for real (Tennessee) and who can start focusing on the recruiting trail (NC State).
But you’d think after the mini Rivalry Week that took over Week 3 the temperature would’ve cooled off a bit last Saturday. Nope. Despite the Calgorithm running into a few coding errors in Tallahassee, Week 4 brought out some elite nastiness.
Strap in for some schadenfreude as we take our weekly trip around college football’s most online moments.
TCU trolling The CW backfires
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There is one hard and fast rule in college football these days, and it is do not bite the TV networks. These executives will not hesitate to organize another round of realignment, and the last thing you want to do is get on their bad side.
Which is to say TCU should’ve known better than to get petty with the network that aired Gossip Girl. When the Horned Frogs’ social team found out their rivalry game against SMU was going to be broadcast on The CW, it mocked the ACC and its broadcast partner with a “This is SportsCenter” spoof.
TCU got boat-raced at SMU, 66-42, with current Horned Frogs (and former Mustangs) coach Sonny Dykes ejected early in the second half. And then it was The CW’s turn to beat up on TCU.
Oh yeah, this was rivalry game as well, so SMU got in plenty of shots on social media as well — including a quick screengrab of an FTW blog about TCU’s campus looking like a La Quinta Inn.
Let’s start with the obvious. Touting the Hugh Freeze at Auburn with the fact he beat Nick Saban twice (at previous stops) only for Saban to retire is the type of thing you expect from an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Now, not even two full years into Freeze’s tenure at Auburn, the miscalculated hire continues to look worse and worse. After Saturday’s home loss to Arkansas, Freeze looked for anyone left to throw under the bus. The night ended with a Greyhound driven by Freeze’s former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace speeding right over him instead.
During Freeze’s postgame press conference, aside from blaming his players, he also made this bold claim:
“I mean no offense whatsoever to at all to Arkansas or to Cal. I love Sam Pittman; I hope he wins the rest of his games. But the hard truth is if we play them nine more times, we beat them nine times,” Freeze said.
We’re sure the was similarly no offense taken by Freeze when Arkansas responded with this subtweet:
The Southland Conference wants no part of the SEC’s trash
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Saturday’s matchup between 1-2 Florida and 1-2 Mississippi State was technically an SEC game, but it couldn’t hide from the fact that these are two of the most embarrassing programs in the Power Four at the moment.
(Granted the Bulldogs are at least starting to rebuild in Year 1 with Jeff Lebby, and the Gators have yet to move on from Bill Napier.)
Still, these are two SEC teams! Surely any conference would want them, right? Right?
Thanksgiving with the Manning family should be pretty entertaining this year. Surely someone will bring up the fact that Eli made his starting debut at Ole Miss against Murray State.
Did nobody learn anything from our still off-the-grid friend @321nole? Don’t make a bet on college football against yourself — especially when the wager depends on graphic bodily harm. Especially, especially when watching your team play each week already does more than enough damage.
All we’ll say is that a K-State fan promised to ingest a Taco Bell product through an orifice other than their mouth if the Wildcats lost to the Cougars.
After BYU’s win, the team’s social media admin had only one thing to say:
And Lane Kiffin makes an appearance, because of course
Week 2 of college football always feels a bit less petty than Week 1.
It’s not Week 2’s fault. When fans have all offseason to prepare for the first game of the year, there’s always going to be a bit more smack talk — and a lot more comeuppance.
Never fear, Week 2 this season wasn’t totally devoid of pettiness. And a lot of that has to do with a few SEC teams learning they play some dang good football out West, too.
But we begin in Kentucky, where another white out game has been ruined by the visiting team.
Eastern Kentucky tries (and fails) to ruin Western Kentucky’s white out
This was a very good try by Eastern Kentucky after Miami (FL) successfully pulled off this trick in Week 1 against Florida. However, unlike Florida, Western Kentucky’s white out went on as planned. Also unlike Florida, the Hilltoppers went on to smack their in-state opponent, 31-0.
EKU falls to 0-2 by a combined score of 87-7. Woof.
Arkansas’ Marquise Robinson “domination” talk backfires at Oklahoma State
Remember a year ago when South Alabama shockingly upset Oklahoma State 33-7 in Stillwater? Marquise Robinson does. The defensive back had two solo tackles and an interception for the Jaguars. So after transferring to Arkansas for the 2024 season, he was all amped up for another trip to Stillwater.
“I feel like when we got back this time it’s gonna be a domination,” Robinson said leading up to the game.
You know who else remembers that game? Everyone in Stillwater. And they heard Robinson’s words, too. Maybe if Arkansas had played him, the Razorbacks wouldn’t have choked away a 14-point lead at halftime. Instead, the Cowboys won 39-31 in double overtime and quarterback Alan Bowman got to throw Robinson’s words right back in his face.
Marquise Robinson (who played at South Alabama and is now at Arkansas) before the OSU game: “it’s gonna be a domination”#OKState QB Alan Bowman after beating Arkansas : “It was on the bulletin board…. yeah they did not dominate and they lost” pic.twitter.com/zgbHF1gJ80
Auburn and Paul Finebaum get a taste of California love
The California Golden Bears arrived in Auburn as 10.5-point underdogs and left with one of the most satisfying wins of the season so far.
Not just because the ACC school (still weird!) forced five turnovers while out-gaining the Tigers, 332 yards to 286. Not just because Cal held Auburn to two scores in the 21-14 victory. But because the typical SEC elitests never even believed Cal could compete in this one.
Speaking of former Pac-12 teams asserting their dominance over the SEC, Arizona State — picked to finish last in the Big 12 — couldn’t wait to troll Mississippi State after picking up a 30-23 victory in Tempe.
No cowbells necessary in the desert. Just victory bells. And also a nice reminder that before we knew them as the Sun Devils, Arizona State’s team in the 1920s were officially recognized as the Bulldogs — 40 years or so before MSU changed to that name.
The first full weekend of college football featured so much trolling
Leave it to Gainesville, Florida — the birthplace of Tom Petty — to become the center of all college football pettiness during Week 1.
If only that was good news for the Gators.
Florida entered the season with cautious optimism in Year 3 of head coach Billy Napier’s regime and after a barely competitive loss to Miami, a number of fans are ready to cut ties.
That’s only on the field, though. Off of it, things got so much more embarrassing at The Swamp that we really could’ve chosen any number of examples to lead off Week 1’s pettiest moments.
Sit back and enjoy the drama.
Miami ruins Florida’s white out, then celebrates with the Gators’ recruits
What puts this game into the college football Pettiness Hall of Fame is that after the Hurricanes won, they celebrated on the field with all the recruits Florida invited to the game — something that was only possible because Florida inexplicably had its recruits seated between the Miami fan section and Miami’s tunnel.
Which is how you end up with what is — by far — the pettiest moment of the week: Hurricanes players telling Florida recruits to come to The U.
Florida Gators staffers were doing the most after the game yesterday. ushering Miami players away from recruits pic.twitter.com/BII3rRPfwL
Pour one out for the Florida staffers who had to usher the visiting players away from their recruits, but truly, the Gators would never have been in this position if they had sat them anywhere else. Or if Florida had won the game, but let’s go with the more realistic option.
The Pac-12 Network trolls the Big Ten from beyond the grave
Ostensibly, UCLA, USC, Washington and Oregon bolted to the Big Ten for the larger payday that comes with the conference’s media rights deal. That effectively left the Pac-12 for dead as every other school except Oregon State and Washington State found a life raft off the sinking ship. This isn’t to re-litigate realignment except to say when the Pac-12 Network officially signed off in June, it was fair to assume that was the last anyone would hear from them.
Once again, there’s still a Pac-12 after it goes dark.
Now the same lucrative Big Ten media deals that attracted the west coast schools in the first place are preventing some of their fans from watching. As the Comcast-Big Ten Network dispute drags on, the Pac-12 Network couldn’t help but rub salt in the wound with a perfect display of petty.
It doesn’t take much for Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin to troll LSU fans, which really makes it all the more fun.
The perfect opportunity presented itself on Saturday and Tigers coach Brian Kelly really set himself up for it. First, by playfully mocking Kiffin’s (mostly correct) rant over how unhealthy Coca-Cola is, and then by losing LSU’s season-opener for a third consecutive year.
Kelly didn’t have to start a late-August press conference by praising Coke products, but once he did it opened the door for Kiffin to troll him right back on Saturday.
Lane Kiffin’s press conference: “Does anybody drink Coke? You realize 130% of your sugar for the entire day is in this one bottle?”
Need more proof that elite athletes will take any and everything as bulletin board material? LSU tackle Will Campbell made as innocuous statement possible, calling attention to the team’s focus before the season-opening game against USC in Las Vegas.
“We know what we’re there for,” Campbell said. “It’s not to go to Caesars Palace. It’s to get in a fistfight.”
USC defensive tackle Bear Alexander took that personally, for some reason, and he couldn’t wait to throw it right back in Campbell’s face once the Trojans completed the 27-20 upset.
Arkansas’ Ja’Quinden Jackson makes new friends in the end zone
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Arkansas probably didn’t make a ton of friends at Arkansas-Pine Bluff after the Razorbacks’ 70-0 victory, but tailback Ja’Quinden Jackson might be the lone exception.
After gliding down the field untouched for a 46-yard touchdown, Jackson made sure to wave to the Golden Lions cheerleaders in the end zone.
Oh, you thought only teams and fans get in on this fun? Oh no, no, no. A couple national reporters joined the Week 1 pettiness, too.
Florida State was ripped apart in Weeks 0 and 1 by Georgia Tech and Boston College, respectfully, to the tune of a 52-34 combined score.
During the BC loss, Action Network’s Brett McMurphy took the time to retweet a feature by ESPN’s Pete Thamel pointing out how good FSU’s defensive line looked before the season.
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