The stage is set. It’s the Razorbacks vs Southern Miss Golden Eagles Live Blog from Fayetteville.
Join us today as Jim Harris tracks the action on the field from Donald W. Reynolds Stadium in Fayetteville. The Arkansas Razorbacks vs Southern Miss Golden Eagles. Here is Jim’s game preview. The game kicks off at 11:21 a.m. Sept. 14, 2013, and is televised the SEC Network. Details on where to watch the game are available by clicking this link. 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 last week’s live game blog from Little Rock against Samford. You’ll learn more about Razorback football during one Jim Harris Live Game 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, at a party or hanging with friends at the sports pub, we want to see all the fun you’re having.It’s game day, people. Let’s have a blast!
2:08 p.m. 17-3 — A facemask penalty on a third-down run by Collins moves Arkansas to the 7. These runs are all to the left side, which really hasn’t been blocking as well as the right.
So, from the 7, Collins starts on what looks like a power run left, but then cuts it back inside and jiggles his way to the goal line.
First call is touchdown. Play is under review.
While it’s being reviewed, we’d like to point out that lost in the injury to Brandon Allen and the tightness of this game is that true freshman Denver Kirkland came in to replace the injured Grady Ollison early in the second quarter and has done a very solid job on that side.
It appears Arkansas is working on getting its left side stronger, because Brey Cook at right guard and Kirkland at right tackle are knocking defenders backward.
Touchdown stands. Hocker converts. Arkansas has a three-score lead.
It ain’t pretty, but it apparently will be Arkansas’ third win, though 7:20 still remains.
2:04 p.m. — That’s how you use Kiero Small, after you’ve already used up the “small-cat” formation. Throw to him in the flat for 16 yards to reach the USM 34 and keep working the clock while wearing out the Golden Eagles’ defense.
2:00 p.m. — Arkansas is powering it now, winning the line of scrimmage and punching it out to near midfield behind Alex Collins. He’s really something, isn’t he? He’s the epitome of the “be your own blocker” type of back. Arkansas has had some great backs in recent years, but not a lot who could move and create space where there was none.
Really, I’m only posting now to point out that Akron is beating Michigan in the Big House 24-20 with four minutes to play, David Bazzel tells me. Bazzel and I and Jason Snavely make up the north end of row 2 in the press box. Not a big press turnout today compared to what’s probably coming here in two weeks.
Collins and Jonathan Williams are both approaching 100 yards again for the third straight week. Collins needs 2 more.
1:56 p.m. 17-3 — Certainly you saw that one coming, right? USM faked the field goal from the UA 21, but Arkansas’ Jarrett Lake and Tevin Mitchel had the shovel pass sniffed out and limited Nic Bekkers to 2 yards, turning the ball back over to the offense.
Arkansas had 74 yards of offense in the third quarter, three times its second-quarter output.
1:53 p.m., 17-3 Hogs — Well, USM is moving the ball all over the place but hasn’t legally cracked the end zone yet. Kendrick Hardy had a 49-yard touchdown run down the left sideline called back by an obvious holding on the USM wideout against Will Hines, but the Golden Eagles still have possession, fourth down and 7, at the UA 21 with the fourth quarter about to begin.
In the third quarter alone, USM rushed for three-quarters of its total rushing yards this season, gaining 63 on the ground and 124 total yards. But all the Golden Eagles have to show for it is missed field goal.
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