Jim Harris: Arkansas-Rutgers Live Blog

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The Arkansas Rutgers Live Blog powered by Jim Harris. The stage is set. It is Razorback game day.

Join us today as Jim Harris tracks the action on the field in Piscataway, NJ. The Arkansas Razorbacks take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Here is the pre-game chatter from throughout the week on the game. The game kicks off at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 21, 2013, and is televised on ESPN. Bookmark this page and plan to come back often. No one live blogs a game like Jim Harris. Want proof? Here is Jim’s work from the season opener against the UL-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns. And here is his live game blog from Little Rock against Samford. The live blog from last week – Arkansas vs. Southern Miss – is here for your review. You will learn more about Razorback football during one Jim Harris Live Blog than you thought possible. Guaranteed. Also, don’t forget to tag us in pictures your take and post to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. On Twitter, we’re @sportinglifeark; click here to get us on Facebook and here to get us on Instagram. Whether you’re at the game in New Jersey, at a party or hanging with friends at the sports pub, we want to see all the fun you’re having.

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5:58 p.m. 28-24 Knights — Well, that’s the football gods dangling this one in the face of an Arkansas fanbase that put up with the misery of 2012, then jerking it away. First down by Rutgers and the Knights will run out the clock and win the game. Remember to catch us at 6:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on KTHV, Channel 11, on the “Hog Zone Super Saturday” as the panel breaks down this breakdown.

5:53 p.m. 28-24 Knights — Two really bad plays derailed a promising start to the Hogs drive. On first down after moving past the 40, Rutgers sent a blitz that no one was prepared to pick up, Arkansas had numbers on the outside players but nobody the middle and Derby was dropped for a loss of 9 by Djwany Mera. On second down, Jonathan Williams on a slow developing swing pass, could get nothing trying to run around the backfield. After a long miss downfield, Arkansas had to put it away.

5:48 p.m. — That was an awfully slow kickoff return by Keon Hatcher. Arkansas starts inside its own 20.

5:44 p.m. 28-24 Knights — Rutgers makes it all the way back, from down 17 to taking the lead as Nova leads the Knights 33 yards with his arm. Paul James is out, so it’s pretty much all passing by Rutgers. Carroo is on the receiving end of a 4-yard quick toss on the left side from Nova for the score. He found the middle open for tosses of 17 yards to Quron Pratt and 14 to Carroo to set up the score. Now, A.J. Derby has 5:18 and two time outs to pull out a miracle for Arkansas and cement his name in Hog history, in a way. From walk-on quarterback to winning a road game. Failures in the special teams end, punting team mainly, have been the undoing, and Arkansas chose to sit on a 17-point lead, though field position was atrocious for a while.