Arkansas Football: Rebuild in full display in loss to Colorado State
3. The bottom of the West
With minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Arkansas found themselves in a one-possession game against Colorado State. That same day Alabama, Auburn, LSU and even Ole Miss won blowouts against bad teams. Texas A&M fell by two points to No. 2 Clemson, and could have won had it not been for a tough call on the goal line.
While the rest of the division was playing incredible football Arkansas was allowing a comeback from an 0-2 Colorado State team that had suffered back-to-back blowout losses against Hawaii and Colorado.
The game itself is a bad look for Arkansas, but the quality of competition they’ll face this year makes even a mediocre game look like a black eye. Arkansas is definitely in a full rebuild, and the Colorado State fiasco was ample evidence that it’s going to take longer than most Razorbacks would like.
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Arkansas had one last chance to win the game with five minutes left in the fourth quarter. Not only did they go three-and-out, the lost 11 yards before being forced to punt to CSU, who went on to score the game-winning touchdown.