Raise your hand if you expected Auburn and Arkansas to enter their Oct. 24 game with identical SEC records.

If you did, you probably were expecting 2-1, not 1-2.

The Tigers have a chance to get back to .500 in the SEC and creep closer to bowl eligibility Saturday before the schedule turns nasty with Ole Miss and Texas A&M looming.

In order to so so, these five Tigers will have to play well:

1. QB Sean White: Auburn has rotated quarterbacks this season, but coach Gus Malzahn announced early this week that White would start at Arkansas. White played a clean game last week at Kentucky, completing 17 of 27 passes for 255 yards. He didn’t throw a touchdown pass, but he didn’t turn the ball over, either. Malzahn told reporters that the offense finally started to look like an Auburn offense.

2. RB Peyton Barber: Nothing helps a young quarterback quite like a successful running game. Kentucky held Barber to 92 yards, but the sophomore scored two touchdowns, including one in the fourth quarter that wound up being the winning points.

3. WR Ricardo Louis: The senior playmaker caught seven balls for a career-high 154 yards last week. His 34-yard catch helped set up Barber’s second touchdown. This week sets up nicely for another potential big day. Arkansas’ defense ranks last in the SEC with just six sacks and is tied for eighth with five interceptions. That’s one reason the Razorbacks have allowed a league-worst 12 pass plays of 30 or more yards.

4. DB Carlton Davis: Auburn’s defense hasn’t been its normal lock-down self — only South Carolina is allowing more points per game than Auburn’s 25.7 — but Davis has intercepted a pass in each of the past two games. Arkansas QB Brandon Allen, who ranks in the top half of the SEC in yards (1,536) and touchdowns (10), will challenge a secondary that has allowed just four pass plays of 30-plus yards this season. Only Missouri has been better.

5. LB Cassanova McKinzy: Auburn ranks 12th in the SEC with just six sacks, but McKinzy has half of them. Arkansas leads the league with the fewest sacks allowed, just five, so any opportunity McKinzy has to make a play in the backfield would be a bonus.