Arkansas at Alabama Live Blog powered by Jim Harris. The stage is set. It is Razorback game day. The Razorbacks take on the defending national champions and current No. 1 team in the country – the Crimson Tide – here we go.
It’s game day people! Let’s have a blast!
5:56 p.m. — Let’s get to blogging.
Upsets a plenty in the SEC today: South Carolina fell at Tennessee; Georgia lost at Vanderbilt. May the next upset come at Tuscaloosa tonight?
Who are we kidding?
How about that South Carolina result? After blowing through Arkansas’ defense for eight scores (7 TDs, 1 FG) in 10 possessions, the Gamecocks ran into a team with some fight in Tennessee and lost at the end. Really makes that performance last week look bad.
In the Vandy-Georgia game, Ray Drew of Georgia, a defensive player, was ejected by the “targeting” rule for putting his shoulder pads into Vanderbilt’s quarterback, a play that Alabama and Florida defenders do early and often. It was an amazing call.
Speaking of Florida, Cory Diggs was ejected for a helmet to helmet hit, which looked a lot more legit than the ejection of the Georgia player.
Just has me a little wary about what we’ll see in this game, the way Alabama has been allowed to tee off on Arkansas quarterbacks for the past four years (not to mention the helmet-to-helmet hit, before the rule was put in, that put Darren McFadden out of the 2007 game with Arkansas leading 38-31 i the fourth quarter; Alabama rallied for a 41-38 victory in the final seconds).
Don’t worry, this one won’t be decided at the finish. Arkansas will be fortunate to play Alabama any closer than Georgia State did (45-3 Bama win).
