Let me start by saying this: I was wrong.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

During the past three weeks — beginning with the bye week after the loss to Mississippi State through the 30-0 shutout of then-No. 8 Ole Miss — things have clicked for the Arkansas Razorbacks.

The performance had always been there, but the results are so staggering that we’ve gone from believing an 0-16 start in conference play was likely to believing the Hogs are about to close the season on a three-game winning streak over three ranked opponents.

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Now, our questions of whether or not two winless seasons in the SEC was enough to fire second-year head coach Bret Bielema and our statements of his 0-13 start being unprecedented seem ludicrous.

The results are so eye-popping that it makes us look back at three losses by a touchdown or less and know that Arkansas was close all along, it just needed a break.

The performances have been so clear, so dominating, that now — because the wins are finally coming — we realize Bielema was on the right track all along, he just needed a break.

He’s believed in this program, in what he is building. Bielema knew players were buying in, if he could just keep them bought in long enough to win a game and see the results.

The fans even stayed with him. Through a September second-half meltdown against Texas A&M in Dallas, a one-point home loss to Alabama and a seven-point loss to Mississippi State, fans kept filling Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

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This team began to look like a football team in that heartbreaking loss to then-No. 1 Mississippi State on the road. Bielema said, and defensive coordinator Robb Smith echoed, that things began to come together in all three phases of the game on that first Saturday of November in Starkville.

Then the break came in the form of a reeling LSU team, stumbling into Fayetteville off an overtime loss to Alabama.

And that’s when perception shifted.

Arkansas then registered its first 30-point win under Bielema, shutting out Ole Miss, a top-10 team at the time.

That’s when college football aficionados began to believe.

Take Sports Illustrated’s Andy Staples, for example:

Even ESPN’s college basketball voice is impressed:

The outlook upon Fayetteville has changed. The Hogs are the hottest team in college football, playing this week with a chance to ruin Missouri’s SEC East title.

But Arkansas is playing for something more. It’s playing for 2015.

And that’s only possible because of Bielema’s hard work yielding results the past two weeks.