ARKANSAS vs TCU
When: 12/31/2020 8:00 PM
Where:

TV: 8:00 PM
LINE: -5.5
PREDICTION: TCU , ARKANSAS

Oddsmakers currently have the TCU listed as -5.5 point favorites versus the ARKANSAS, while the game’s total is sitting at 57.

Arkansas brings an unsightly 3-7 record and a four-game losing skid into the Texas Bowl to face TCU on New Year’s Eve in Houston.

Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman isn’t making any apologies.

“We’ll always have folks who will say we were 3-7 and things of that nature. If you look at our schedule and look — obviously we played 10 SEC games, certainly played four I think of the top nine teams in the country,” said Pittman, whose three wins were against Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Tennessee.

Teams did not need a winning record or a minimum number of victories this season to be eligible for a bowl due to the uncertainty of COVID-19.

The Horned Frogs (6-4), winners of three straight and five of their last six games, last faced the Razorbacks when they split a home-and-home series from 2016-17. TCU’s winning streak includes a 29-22 victory over then-No. 15 Oklahoma State on Dec. 5.

The Texas Bowl will mark the Frogs’ ninth game out of 11 played in Texas this season.

“Most of our kids are very excited, even the Louisiana kids because this is going to be an opportunity for their families to come watch them play,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “If it would have been somewhere out of state, going west or really further east, it would have been harder for them to do that.”

Former Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks is a big reason why Arkansas won its three games this season and lost three others — to Auburn, LSU and Missouri — by a combined seven points.

Franks has revived his career at Arkansas after suffering a gruesome ankle injury with the Gators in the third game of last season.

“A game here and there, we were in every game and we were competing and we did a good job with that,” said Franks, who was the 2018 Peach Bowl MVP with Florida. “I think the program is turned around and definitely headed in the right direction with Coach Pittman and all of the staff and everybody did a great job of getting the program going in the right direction.”

He has thrown for 2,107 yards at a 68.5 percent completion rate with 17 touchdowns and only four interceptions.

While other NFL prospects are opting out of bowls, Franks said he will play in the Texas Bowl.

“I feel like it’s just my duty,” he said. “Not necessarily my duty, but for me, I want to stay and I want to finish the season out. I want to finish what I started.”

TCU’s running game dictates its performances.

It leads the Big 12 at 216.0 rushing yards per game. The Horned Frogs are 6-0 when running for at least 200 yards. They have averaged 275.0 yards per game rushing in their six wins and 124.3 in the four losses.

Quarterback Max Duggan leads TCU in rushing with 526 yards and 10 touchdowns. He has completed 146 of 240 passes for 1,795 yards with 10 touchdowns and four interceptions.

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ARKANSAS vs COLORADO ST
When: 7:30 PM ET, Saturday, September 8, 2018
Where: Sonny Lubrick Field at Colorado State Stadium, Fort Collins, Colorado

TV: 7:30 PM
LINE:
PREDICTION: COLORADO ST , ARKANSAS

Oddsmakers currently have the COLORADO ST listed as point favorites versus the ARKANSAS, while the game’s total is sitting at .

It’s one game into the new season, and a quarterback quandary has developed at Arkansas. Both Cole Kelley and Ty Storey played and played well in the Razorbacks’ 55-20 season-opening win over Eastern Illinois and first-year head coach Chad Morris says both will play again Saturday when Arkansas visits Colorado State.

Kelley, a sophomore, started and completed 9-of-12 passes for 92 yards and a touchdown against Eastern Illinois. However, the junior Storey earned rave reviews after coming off the bench to complete 12-of-17 attempts for 261 yards and three scores and is taking the primary snaps with the first-team offense in practice this week. In his weekly Monday news conference, though, Morris declined to say which quarterback will start Saturday’s game. “Ty will get the first-team reps starting (Tuesday) in practice, and we’ll re-evaluate things as practice goes,” Morris said. “Ty got first-team reps at times last week, but Cole got the majority of them. This week, Ty will get the majority of them, and we’ll make the decision later in the week how we’re going to run this thing out there. Ty’s earned that right right now.”

TV: 7:30 p.m. ET, CBS Sports Network. LINE: Arkansas -13.5

ABOUT ARKANSAS (1-0): While the up-tempo passing game produced 353 yards and four TDs against the Panthers of the FCS, the Razorbacks’ ground game managed only 80 yards on 37 attempts, including 31 yards on 14 carries for the top two tailbacks, Devwah Whaley and Chase Hayden. As for the pass-catchers, wide receivers Jordan Jones and La’Michael Pettway reeled in a combined 10 passes for 225 yards and three TDs. Defensively, Arkansas forced six fumbles, recovering five, and was led by senior linebacker Dre Greenlaw, who recorded 10 total tackles, including two for losses, and forced a fumble.

ABOUT COLORADO STATE (0-2): The Rams have been on the wrong side of losses to Hawaii (43-34) and Colorado (45-13) so far and are seeking to avoid their first 0-3 start since 2010 when they wound up 3-9. Defense has been the major issue with Colorado State getting gashed for 44 points and 606.5 yards per game while surrendering 8.8 yards per play and an opponent completion percentage of 77.4. In trying to keep pace, senior transfer K.J. Carta-Samuels has thrown for 713 yards and six TDs with wideouts Olabisi Johnson and Preston Williams combining for 27 catches, 476 yards and five TDs.

EXTRA POINTS

1. Arkansas leads the series 3-0 with all three games being played in Little Rock, but the two schools haven’t met since 1990.

2. It will mark the first time the Razorbacks have faced a Mountain West Conference in a true road game, and Arkansas will be only the second SEC team to visit Fort Collins after Mississippi State in 1981.

3. Colorado State, which is 2-12 against current SEC members, also faces a SEC team the following Saturday when the Rams play at Florida.

PREDICTION: Arkansas 38, Colorado State 23

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