Sam Pittman and Arkansas close the season with 4 games, including 2 at home and 2 on the road starting this week against Mississippi State.

Pittman said at his Monday press conference that it is imperative to finish strong in part because of the hot start Arkansas got off to this season with wins over Texas and Texas A&M.

“It’s big because of how we started the season,” Pittman said. “It would be big any time, but you don’t want to go 4-0 and ranked 8th in the country and then let it all slide away from you. I don’t feel like it will if we can win x number of games, I don’t want to get into that. But yeah, we’ve won 1 conference game, we need to win some conference football games, and we need to start this run and like you say they’re 1 at a time, but this would get us bowl eligible, that would be a big thing for us. So that’s another key to it as well.”

Pittman believes the Razorbacks can do it, even though they play the Bulldogs, at LSU, at Alabama and finish against Missouri in Little Rock.