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Where: Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford
Kickoff: 11:21 a.m.
Television: SEC Network (WCBI )
Radio: Ole Miss Network, XM 199; Sirius 219.
Records: Ole Miss 2-4, 0-3 SEC, Arkansas 5-1, 1-1 SEC
Series: Arkansas leads 30-26-1
Coaches: Arkansas – Bobby Petrino, 69-25, 8th college season overall, 28-16, fourth season at Arkansas He was 3-10 in 2007 with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. Ole Miss – Houston Nutt 135-90 19th season; 24-20 fourth season at Ole Miss.
n Statistical Leaders: Arkansas – RB Ronnie Wingo 60-284 2 TDs; QB Tyler Wilson 135-for-208 passing 1,779 yards, 12 TD, 3 INT; WR Jarius Wright 33 catches, 554 yards, 6 TD; LB Jerry Franklin 51 tackles, 5 TFLs, 3 PBU. Ole Miss – RB Jeff Scott 75-361, 6 TD; QB Randall Mackey, 24-for-51 passing, 433 yards, 2 INT, 2 TD; WR Ja-Mes Logan 16 catches, 229 yards, 0 TD; LB Mike Marry 55 tackles, 345 TFLs, 2 sacks.
Trends: Houston Nutt won the first two meetings against his former school before losing 38-24 in Fayetteville last year. … Arkansas has won 20 of its last 25 games. … Ole Miss has lost nine consecutive SEC games.
Notes: Ole Miss RB Brandon Bolden has 2,237 career rushing yards and needs 85 more to pass Dou Innocent for fifth place on the Ole Miss rushing list. He was suspended and did not play last week against Alabama. … Ole Miss kicker Bryson Rose has attempted just three field goals this year. He's hit all three and is 19-for-21 for his two years as the starter. … With wins against No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 15 Auburn earlier this season, Arkansas defeated consecutive Top-15 opponents for just the second time in school history, the first time since 1999, Nutt's second season as Razorbacks coach.
Prediction: Arkansas 42, Ole Miss 21
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Razorbacks on the field milling about. The Rebels have walked through and are in their locker room. About 2 hours from kickoff right now.
I'll be here at halftime and post game and will have updates throughout on Twitter.
JB
I thought the Razorbacks were more physical on both lines of scrimmage in the second half.
Watching it live it looked like the flood gates just opened when Jeff Scott was caught for a safety, but the replay looked like someone just didn't pick up Franklin.
Offensive coordinator David Lee said in the second half Arkansas put a player on the side to which the Rebels would come in motion. Ole Miss was able to attack the edge successfully in the first half but not the second.
Mackey had a good game, 18-for-30 for 219 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT. But he was sacked three times. He's got to learn to throw the ball away. Honestly though, he shouldn't be under pressure on every play. He rushed for 72 yards before the sack yardage was added, but most of that was his scrambling. There weren't any called runs.
Defensively, the Rebels looked strong against the run for most of the first half. Then Dennis Johnson got loose on the long run, and it was 17-7. Take away the long run, and Johnson still had 108 yards on 14 carries. Not a bad day's work for a guy who was averaging less than 30 yards a game.
In the end, Arkansas rushed for 206 yards, the fifth time this season Ole Miss has given up over 200 yards on the ground.
The secondary, beaten up as it is, did a good job in holding Tyler Wilson to less than 50 percent passing. But Wilson didn't throw a touchdown pass, but hit enough big plays to set up short touchdown runs, two of them his own.
More to come with Day After Observations tomorrow.
Without question it's been the best run defense the Rebels have shown this year, but it hasn't come without a dark mark. The 52-yard touchdown run by Johnson came on a third-and-14. Without the Rebels might very well be ahead 17-0 right now.
An advantage of two-plus touchdowns would feel a lot better in the Ole Miss locker room given what the Arkansas offense is capable of.
That being said. The Rebels didn't hang heads after the long touchdown run. The offense kept the ball for a good bit afterward, though it didn't score. The defense just got off the field in a prevent situation with Arkansas taking a few deep shots as the clock wound down.
Everybody will regroup now. The Razorbacks get the ball to open the third.
Brandon Bolden had rushed for 61 yards on eight carries when he limped off the field. He had his ankle checked and got back in the game. He's got 65 yards on 10 carries right now.
Bolden and Jeff Scott have been in the game together a lot. Scott had 29 yards on eight carries.
The Rebels have done a good job of attacking the perimeter with Nick Brassell (3 carries, 22 yards), enough that they've gotten some nice inside runs too, several of them behind right guard Matt Hall, the Arkansas transfer.
Randall Mackey hit 10 of his first 11 passes – one of them a 31-yard touchdown to Donte Moncrief – before throwing incomplete under pressure on third down a few minutes ago.
Moncrief got good position on the defender on the touchdown, but it wasn't like he was alone making the catch. Nice throw and catch on the play.
Ole Miss has 250 yards of offense, the most it's gotten in an SEC game this season. For a half, the Rebels have outgained the Razorbacks 250-128.
Ole Miss has an edge in possession time of 22:12 to 7:48 and an edge in first downs of 17-6.
Mackey is 10-for-12 passing for 122 yards and the TD.
No turnovers for the Rebels, but lots of penalties – five for 35 yards – for a team that didn't have one last week.