Get over it. Move on. Next game up. Easier said than done, as the Arkansas Razorbacks are learning.

Saturday’s 17-10 loss at Mississippi State is the latest installment in a series of crushing defeats for a team that has lost its last 17 conference games dating back to 2012.

The Hogs have been resilient. They compete week-in and week-out with the best in the league, only to come up short. But this one stung more. Defensive end Trey Flowers had to be consoled by head coach Bret Bielema outside the locker room after the game, according to Robbie Neiswanger of Arkansas News.

“I know how hard we work,” Flowers told Neiswanger. “I know how much we put into this season. I know how much we believe. And just to continue to come up short…”

The Razorbacks’ second, and final, bye week has begun as LSU waits in the wings next weekend.

Who wouldn’t have reacted like Flowers? Even the most mentally-tough competitors can take only so much defeat. The journey Bielema and the Hogs have been on has been a weekly roller coaster of highs and lows.

For the fifth time in its past seven SEC games, Arkansas had a lead or was tied in the fourth quarter. The Razorbacks have lost all seven games.

Last week, it was a 10-0 lead then a 17-10 deficit. Three times, however, did Arkansas have the ball inside the Mississippi State red zone. It failed to come away with points all three times.

A team can go through that for only so long.

“It’s going to take me a while to get over it,” Flower said after the game. “But we’re just going to have to get over it and come back to work, and work harder.”

Bielema has his work cut out for him. Not with the X’s and O’s, but with the mental state of his team. But with the stretch run of the 2014 regular season approaching — beginning with LSU next weekend, followed by Ole Miss and Missouri — the Hogs have to find a way to prepare, but most importantly, execute.

That’s what has plagued Bielema’s team this season. The Razorbacks have proven they can compete with the best in the league. But after surrendering a 14-point fourth quarter lead against Texas A&M, a 10-point lead over Mississippi State and bad halfs of play against Georgia and Auburn, the Hogs still have nothing to show for it.

It’s the ability to win one-on-one match-ups. It’s execution.

Arkansas forced three first half turnovers last week in Starkville, but converted just one into points. Its halftime lead should’ve been worse than 10-7. However, as in the loss to A&M and Alabama, costly penalties, turnovers or other mental errors haunted the Razorbacks.

The Hogs didn’t catch a break. But they also beat themselves.

Even still, Arkansas continues to battle. Something that has not gone unnoticed by its head coach.

“I think if your team wasn’t being managed very, very well you would not see the results that you’re seeing,” Bielema told reporters Tuesday night. “You would see teams that get handed one-sided losses very, very routinely. These guys never quit. I think they have shown that all year long. It’s not an option in our program.”

Arkansas doesn’t want to — probably can’t — stomach any more close conference losses. Bielema continues to believe the Hogs are right there. Flower does, too.

Will the breakthrough come against LSU? How about Ole Miss or Missouri?

“I wish I could tell you,” Flowers said. “I don’t know.”

Bielema knows the Hogs can play with anyone, but that doesn’t mean anything. He wants to erase that zero in the win column.

“When we play with an edge and play the way we’re capable of playing, I know we can,” Bielema said. “But it doesn’t do any good. I want to beat somebody, you know.”

Arkansas has three more chances beginning next week. Buckle those chin straps, fellas.