Game Thread Sugar Bowl: tOSU vs Arkansas, Tue, Jan 4th, 8:30 ET ESPN

[Rookie]

Regarding Peyton Hillis:

You're welcome.

Thank you, and McDaniels, who is unfortunately an Ohio native =/.

 

[SmoovP]

I was watching them both live on TV - shocked at the result both times.

Both of those plays sort of epitomize Razorback Football over the past 40 years.

So, so close sometimes, only to get our hearts broken.

What Bobby Petrino has done for us in three short years, is that he has changed our expectations.

We expect to win the big games now. We still haven't gotten over that hump yet, but with Petrino in charge, we think it's just a matter of time.

It's an exciting time to be a Razorback fan.

 

[BrutusBuckeyeAZ]

25 days 10 hours 18 mins 14 seconds!! DAMN IT! This is almost as bad as waiting for Christmas morning!

 

[SmoovP]

he wins.
that is way more important to me than how he wins or what he says.

to win 10 games with the joke that was our offense this year may have been his best coaching job since arriving in BR.

he's got a .500 record against Saban and Meyer.
who everyone says is 100x's better than him.


back to Arky now.
enjoy the experience at the Sugar.
playing in BCS bowls is what everyone is shooting for, but only a select few get to do.

going 10-2 in the West this year is something to be proud of.
this is probably the toughest/deepest i've ever seen this division.

I'm not a gambling man, but if I were, I'd NEVER bet against The Hat. I'm a believer in his mojo.

What he does I think, is get his players to believe because he believes in them.

Crazy ass trick play? OF COURSE it's going to work.

Yeah, the West was murderous this year. To have five teams in the top 25 is unprecedented as far as I can find.

And to think we were one bought-and-paid-for player away from winning the SEC and potentially playing for much higher stakes, points back to my previous post about getting so, so close.

 

[Zander42]

A Buckeye is a posinious nut that grows on the offical state tree: the buckeye tree. In the 1700s Daniel Drake gave this speech: "In all our woods there is not a tree so hard to kill as the buckeye. The deepest girdling does not deaden it, and even after it is cut down and worked up into the side of a cabin it will send out young branches, denoting to all the world that Buckeyes are not easily conquered, and could with difficulty be destroyed."

Ok, Slightly OT, but if the Buckeye tree is so hard to kill, why are 1/3 of the Buckeye trees in Buckeye Grove dead? Is there a fungus that wasn't around in the 1700's?

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Just a question here, I assume its is a few, how many National Championships does Arky have?

1, 1964

That 1964 Arkansas team was 11-0-0, gave up 64 points on the season with five straight shutouts, and beat Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl. However, they finished the regular season at #2 in both major polls, behind Alabama. At that time, both polls awarded their national championships prior to the bowl games, so Alabama won both titles despite subsequently losing to Texas in the Orange Bowl and finishing the season at 10-1-0. Arkansas did win the FWAA national championship (recognized by the NCAA) and several minor titles. That 1964 Arkansas squad was one of the best teams not to win a major national championship. They continued their success in 1965, winning all ten regular season games, but falling to LSU in the Cotton Bowl, 14-7.

The 1964 final poll results was one of the biggest screw jobs in polling history, and because of it the AP awarded their 1965 national champion after the bowl games. The AP permanently adopted the post-bowl format in 1968, and the UPI (coaches' poll) followed suit in 1974 (after Alabama won another "tainted" pre-bowl NC in 1973).

By the way, that 1964 Arkansas team was coached by the legendary Frank Broyles and starred Loyd Phillips (1966 Outland Trophy winner), Jimmy Johnson (Hurricanes/Cowboys head coach), Jerry Jones (Cowboys owner), and Ken Hatfield (Arkansas/Clemson/Rice/Air Force head coach).

 

[matt_thatsme]

I'm not a gambling man, but if I were, I'd NEVER bet against The Hat. I'm a believer in his mojo.

This....I AM a gambling man and I have learned never to bet against The Hat.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

Ok, Slightly OT, but if the Buckeye tree is so hard to kill, why are 1/3 of the Buckeye trees in Buckeye Grove dead? Is there a fungus that wasn't around in the 1700's?

Yes. It originated in the South around 1933. In a lab setting, scientists have been able to get images from a powerful microscope.

Bastards.

 

[exhawg]

Thank you, and McDaniels, who is unfortunately an Ohio native =/.

McDaniels is a mole. He was sent to Denver to wreck them for years to come and trade one of their best assets to Cleveland for one of our worst. Next up for him is HC for scum so that he can further destroy their program.

 

[SmoovP]

That 1964 Arkansas team was 11-0-0, gave up 64 points on the season with five straight shutouts, and beat Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl. However, they finished the regular season at #2 in both major polls, behind Alabama. At that time, both polls awarded their national championships prior to the bowl games, so Alabama won both titles despite subsequently losing to Texas in the Orange Bowl and finishing the season at 10-1-0. Arkansas did win the FWAA national championship (recognized by the NCAA) and several minor titles. That 1964 Arkansas squad was one of the best teams not to win a major national championship. They continued their success in 1965, winning all ten regular season games, but falling to LSU in the Cotton Bowl, 14-7.

The 1964 final poll results was one of the biggest screw jobs in polling history, and because of it the AP awarded their 1965 national champion after the bowl games. The AP permanently adopted the post-bowl format in 1968, and the UPI (coaches' poll) followed suit in 1974 (after Alabama won another "tainted" pre-bowl NC in 1973).

By the way, that 1964 Arkansas team was coached by the legendary Frank Broyles and starred Loyd Phillips (1966 Outland Trophy winner), Jimmy Johnson (Hurricanes/Cowboys head coach), Jerry Jones (Cowboys owner), and Ken Hatfield (Arkansas/Clemson/Rice/Air Force head coach).

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3846173

19. Arkansas Razorbacks
Total points: 604
Positives: Arkansas would be college football's 10th-best program if you combined just the '50s and '60s. The Razorbacks appeared in eight major bowl games in those two decades, one more than they have in the 53 other years in the AP poll era combined.
Negatives: Since joining the SEC in 1992, Arkansas has not won an outright conference title. In 2006, it shared an SEC-best mark of 7-1 with Florida but missed out on a lucrative BCS berth after a 38-28 loss to the Gators in the SEC title game.
Through the decades: Through 1958: 47th | 1968: 18th | 1978: 14th | 1988: 14th | 1998: 18th
Did you know? Between 1968 and 1989, Arkansas didn't suffer a single losing season. That non-losing-season streak is longer than any in the history of SEC rival LSU.

Of course, Ohio State is #3 on that list.

 

[kchogfan]

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet.

You're probably a good man - I hear you're doing charity work now - but on Nov 14, 1998, with the lead and about a minute and a half left, you managed to drop the ball without being hit by a defender, allowing Tennessee to rally for a win and eventually make it to the first-ever BCS Title game to face Florida State and their 3rd string QB - instead of the weakened 'Noles facing a Buckeye team that was probably the most talented tOSU squad since the mid-70s - so even though it's been 12 years ...


[censored] YOU CLINT STOERNER!

Some Arkansas fans have forgiven him. Not me. I will always call him Stoern-over.

 

[matcar]

Some Arkansas fans have forgiven him. Not me. I will always call him Stoern-over.

Clint's just a good ol boy. I see him at the gym every once in a while. Nice guy.

Like everyone else, including him especially, I wish that hadn't happened. I do think the Buckeyes could have handled anyone that year. Still can't believe we got Spartied.

 

[Coqui]

it was also the ugliest for quite some time.
until that damn thing us and Ole [censored] play for was invented.

Clearly you haven't seen the Fiesta Bowl Trophy.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

But how does that trophy outweigh this one? Its the heaviest trophy in all of college football?

Even shit is pretty heavy when it's all wet...

 

[BrutusBuckeyeAZ]

Even [censored] is pretty heavy when it's all wet...