Jim Harris Live from the Advocare Texas Bowl

It’s game night: Arkansas and Texas facing off like old times. The Advocare Texas Bowl starts on ESPN at 8 pm.

Jim Harris will be posting his thoughts throughout the game here, so check this page often. (Scroll down about halfway and you’ll see the posts from Jim.)

Here’s some of Jim’s reporting from Houston today, with links to the full column and notebook.

Texas, meanwhile, can’t look at many of its six losses and say, “what if?” BYU early and TCU at the end blew out the ’Horns. Kansas State manhandled Texas 23-0. Baylor didn’t go offensively nuts against the Longhorns as the Bears typically do, which says tons about Texas’ improvement on defense under Strong, but Baylor still won 28-7.

And…

For a few weeks late in the regular season, before the bowls were formally set, there was some speculation (nationally, as well as my own) that Texas and Arkansas could be matched in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. And, had both teams won their regular season finales, that might have been the case — instead the SEC’s Texas A&M at 7-5 and the Big 12′s West Virginia, a loser to Texas, were sent to Memphis. Arkansas still faces Texas but in Houston, in the Advocare Texas Bowl.