The streak is over: Arkansas upsets Mississippi State, ends 20-game SEC skid
The streak is over, Arkansas has finally won a conference game.
It’s been 1,071 days since the Razorbacks can say that but it happened on Saturday night as Sam Pittman’s team went on the road and beat Mississippi State 21-14.
The previous SEC win for Arkansas came all the way back on Oct 28, 2017 — the Razorbacks beat Ole Miss in Oxford that day.
The Razorbacks won thanks in large part to an outstanding showing from Barry Odom’s defense. Arkansas intercepted K.J. Costello three times, one for a Pick 6 and “limited” Mississippi State to 313 passing yards.
That’s still a high number but nothing close to the 623 passing yards the Bulldogs put up on LSU last weekend.
After the win, Arkansas was happy to finally celebrate a win in conference play.
It has been zero days since our last SEC win. pic.twitter.com/SJ1yCeYNyq
— Arkansas Razorback Football (@RazorbackFB) October 4, 2020
Back to Fay we go @RazorbackFB pic.twitter.com/QWxMGRQuqO
— Arkansas Razorbacks 🐗 (@ArkRazorbacks) October 4, 2020
THE STREAK IS DEAD.
Arkansas beats RANKED Miss State on the road, without Boyd, Burks, Brown, and so many others.
21-14— Nikki Chavanelle (@NikkiChavanelle) October 4, 2020
Wow! I didn’t think I would be saying this, but congratulations to the Razorbacks.
I called it. Obviously the gm vs LSU was more of a fluke. Caught a young banged up LSU Def at a bad time.
Let us have this. We should technically be ranked higher than Smell-S-U. Doubt we get the love… but thats okay.
Nah, it wasn’t a fluke. State was the better team that day. And Arky wanted it more tonight.
Blah blah blah. You play with what you have. We didn’t have kylin. hill. We lost. Arkansas won.
Dear Missouri fans thank you for blessing us with Barry Odom. He is one of the best defensive coordinators I’ve seen at Arkansas. We had 3 starters hurt on defense and we held the “Air raid” offense to 14 points. Best hire we made in a long time.
The defense was lights out. Very few missed assignments or missed tackles. Shows how important coordinators are in todays game. Offense needs to pick it up. So glad that streak is over.
Odom got a bum rap at Mizzou for what he had to work with early on. He was a great pick-up for Arkansas. I said that at that time, and it’s good to see him having success there early on. Not many defenses hold Mike Leech offenses to 14 points and score 7 on them in turn.
WPS!!!!!!!!!!!
Very happy for Sam Pittman. Go Pittboss!
Major congrats to the Arkansas family. Six teams tied for second. Crazy times.
Congratulations Arkansas!
Congrats to GA as well. Looked like a title team tonight and excited for you guys to take it all the way. Nothing but class on that staff and your defense is other-worldly.