Maybe It's Never Too Late to Start Bowl Projections

With an early start on "talking season," some folks already speculating too much

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It was a fairly simple question from an Arkansas fan Tuesday, but still a little surprising. What former SEC coach Steve Spurrier famously called "talking season" is apparently starting a little earlier.

But when a fan asked me what bowl game might me in a store for the Razorbacks this year, the best thing I could do was chuckle and told him to check back with in November. With the Hogs still finishing the regular baseball season and softball hosting an NCAA Regional this week that seems a little bigger.

The Hogs are getting back to where people are projecting them to be in a pretty good bowl game. A couple have them in Nashville, Tenn., for the Music City Bowl in December against a Big Ten team and another one is projecting a Gator Bowl matchup with Florida State.

Of course, one of them is projecting a matchup with Illinois and former coach Bret Bielema. It won't be the last time we hear about that potential matchup we'll probably hear a lot of that.

All they have to do is get six wins. While they should have four non-conference wins (the game in Fayetteville against BYU is the only one that might not be a challenge), who knows what's going to take place once we get to SEC play.

We'll have more on that soon as the story is already in the works on the general outline of the season is already under way. They might want to get a little bit figured out on the roster first.

Sam Pittman would probably like to have that done, too.

HOGS FEED:

MASSIVE MOVE BY ACC COULD TRIGGER LOT OF THINGS THAT COULD AFFECT RAZORBACKS, SEC SCHEDULES

RAZORBACK FANS STANCE ON BASEBALL GETTING OVERALL NO. 1 SEED EASY WAY TO SORT TRUE FANS FROM THOSE HOPPING ON BANDWAGON LATE IN SEASON

FORMER HOG DOMINECK DETAILS WHY HE LEFT ARKANSAS, HOW HE'S ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN COLORADO

VAN HORN CONSIDERED PULLING HOLLAN IN COMPLETE GAME GEM, BUT NOT FOR LONG

RAZORBACKS GET COMPLETE GAME FROM HUNTER HOLLAN TO TAKE SOUTH CAROLINA SERIES ON SUNDAY

NEW OFFENSE UNDER DAN ENOS MAY HAVE SOME CLUES WITH LATEST TIGHT END COMMITMENT

HOGS GET JUST ENOUGH OFFENSE TO TAKE DOWN NO. 6 SOUTH CAROLINA

ARKANSAS HIGH SCHOOL PLAYER HAS FUN WITH AUBURN AFTER RECRUITING INVITE THAT WAS SERIOUSLY WRONG

TAKEOVER OF ESPN RADIO SHOW PROVED HOG FANS WANTED TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN TRANSFER PORTAL LATE IN WINDOW

DESPITE GUT-WRENCHING LOSS, RAZORBACK SOFTBALL WAKES UP TO GOOD NEWS

SLOW NEWS DAY, SPECULATION MAKES DEVO DAVIS RADIO APPEARANCE BIGGER NEWS THAN NORMAL

RAZORBACKS COACH DAVE VAN HORN STARTING HAGEN SMITH ON FRIDAY NIGHT BUT NOTHING FINAL ON REST OF WEEKEND.

PLAYERS NOW HAVE AN UNTAPPED BARGAINING CHIP THAT CAN SLOW THINGS DRAMATICALLY IN THE TRANSFER PORTAL

NO EXPLANATION WHY UNIVERSITY PULLED MAKHI MITCHELL RETURN POST

DEVO HAS GROWN MAN DECISION TO MAKE AFTER COMBINE, G LEAGUE SNUB

DEADLINE COMING FOR ANY PLAYERS TO TRANSFER OUT, BUT RAZORBACKS CAN BRING PLAYERS ALREADY IN PORTAL TO TEAM

CASE FOR DAVE VAN HORN AS TOP COACH IN SEC BECOMING FAIRLY CLEAR AS THIS SEASON HAS PROGRESSED

OLE MISS ASSISTANT POSES GREATEST THREAT ARKANSAS HAS FACE IN RECRUITING IN DECADES

POST INDICATES LONGHORNS MAY REPLACE AGGIES AS OPPONENT IN ARLINGTON

DAVE VAN HORN HAS FANS JUMPING BACK ON THE BANDWAGON

ARKANSAS BASEBALL SCHEDULE

FAYETTEVILLE WEATHER UPDATE

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