Arkansas Football: 5 bold predictions for October 2018

2. Arkansas will put up a fight against Alabama

No one, and I mean absolutely zero people, believe that Arkansas has a chance to upset Alabama in Week 6. The Razorbacks present a mediocre challenge to the best team in college football, but Chad Morris is going to have his guys ready and they’ll put up a bigger fight than many will expect.

Sure, Nick Saban and Alabama always find a way to stay laser-focused and dominate inferior opponents, even when the games seem to be walks in the park but this one will catch them off guard — at least early on.

Alabama will race out to a 14-0 lead, but the Razorbacks will hang tough and put up 10 points to pull within four and make the Tide sweat it out a bit before halftime. They’ll add another 10 points to go ahead 24-10 at half, but even that will be a surprising score for this battle of complete opposites.

Fayetteville will be rocking when the second half returns and the Razorbacks will feed off the energy, pulling within a score halfway through the third quarter.

Alabama will inevitably pull away and win by a few touchdowns, but the Razorbacks will cover the spread and much like it did last year when Texas A&M faced Alabama, the loss will still give the Razorbacks confidence moving forward.