ESPN’s College GameDay, on site in Arlington, Texas in advance of tonight’s Florida State-Oklahoma State game, spent almost five minutes discussing the Auburn/Arkansas match-up.

Host Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, David Pollack and Desmond Howard all stressed that Arkansas has the ability to run the ball now a second year into Bret Bielema’s system. The consensus of the crew was that the game will be closer than expected and that Arkansas shouldn’t be cast aside as a team that Auburn will walk all over.

While addressing the Razorbacks run game, Herbstreit emphasized that the country “is forgetting about Arkansas like they are the bums of the West….They are going to run the ball, play defense with a front 7 that is back.”

Pollack, the former Georgia Bulldog, isn’t buying into Auburn’s motivation this season.

After running a piece with Gus Malzahn “wired” up that took the viewer through a Tiger practice, Malzahn described what Auburn’s team motto, 13 seconds better, means. Pollack responded saying that Auburn was “also 13 seconds away from three more losses. They might be a better team but that doesn’t mean that they are doing to play for national championship or even play for in the Final Four.”

Pollack followed up that logic saying that Tiger starting quarterback Jeremy Johnson doesn’t run as well as Nick Marshall on a team that was ground-and-pound last year.

Herbstreit countered Pollack’s point:”That’s true, a lot of people talk about that, but they won. You know what it is like when you win. When you find a way to win games it is amazing how that can improve a team’s mentality.”