Arkansas football: 3 bold predictions for 2023 season

1. Arkansas finishes ranked in the top 15

This kind of works together with my prediction of Arkansas beating two potentially-ranked teams on the road this season in SEC play.

If Arkansas is able to steal a couple of wins over Florida and Ole Miss, and then it takes care of business in the other games it’s supposed to win,  I can legitimately see the Razorbacks finishing somewhere in the top 15.

Looking at the schedule, the two losses to Alabama and LSU stand out early on and I’m predicting wins over Florida and Ole Miss. They’ll beat Western Carolina, Kent State, and BYU to start the year 3-0. They might struggle against a Texas A&M team that should be much better this year. Arkansas will beat Mississippi State, Auburn, FIU, and Missouri at home to end the year.

That would mean that Arkansas would finish the year 9-3 and that should be good enough to get them into that top-15 range nationally.

I could even see the Razorbacks stealing a win over Texas A&M to get to 10-2 or even 9-3 with another loss elsewhere.

A top-15 finish is going to do wonders for Sam Pittman’s recruiting.