End of Streak: Time for Hogs to Quit Losing to Texas' Little Brother

After stomping the Longhorns a couple of weeks ago, Arkansas faces A&M and time to end nearly decade of bad luck

Andy Hodges | Sep 24, 2021

End of Streak: Time for Hogs to Quit Losing to Texas' Little Brother /

Yes, Texas A&M holds a nine-year win streak over Arkansas ... mainly due to pure luck.

Oh, and some serious dysfunction with Razorback football for nearly a decade. That's the polite way of referring to a string of John L. Smith, Bret Bielema and Chad Morris.

The fact the Aggies had to pull out three overtime wins during that stretch is the real head-scratcher.

There are a lot of Hog fans that think this should be a blowout end to the A&M winning streak. It honestly shouldn't have gotten this far, but there have been some weird things happen in this series.

Go back to 1975 when the Aggies rolled into Little Rock at 10-0, ranked No. 2 in the country and promptly got kicked sideways on a cold, rainy day, 31-6.

It wasn't really that close.

Jackie Sherrill had some dandy teams in the 1980's ... until Ken Hatfield's Flexbone offense had the Aggies' All-Pro linebackers more worried about their knees than tackling anyone. Sherrill still shudders if you just mention Hatfield.

Arkansas is playing with a confidence not seen for awhile.

Beating A&M's big brother Texas (the Longhorns have won 64.4% of their all-time matchups) gave Sam Pittman's team a boost into the Top 25 and many fans are expecting a blowout Saturday in AT&T Stadium.

It's not a false confidence.

The Hogs are able to put up yards in huge amounts on the ground, mainly due to an experienced offensive line that is deep and positionless.

They showed last week KJ Jefferson can hit passes. He can also break a game loose with his running, which is the thing most teams going forward are going to be trying to stop.

Barry Odom's defenses, though, are probably keeping opponents up at night. His little wrinkles every week have given really good quarterbacks fits.

Texas A&M has a quarterback that's played about a game and a half this year, an offensive line that is starting a freshman at center and a defense that has struggled to stop the run.

The Longhorns' little brother still has some growing up to do.

And it's still early in the season.

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Published Sep 24, 2021

ANDY HODGES

Sports columnist, writer, former radio host and television host who has been expressing an opinion on sports in the media for over four decades. He has been at numerous media stops in Arkansas, Texas and Mississippi.