re: Anyone want to fill me in on how Missouri state came extremely close to upsetting the hogs

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Petrino was out for blood.


I agree with this.

Plus, I think Arkansas was hiding some of their play for next week (thinking ahead) and them taking Mizzou State a bit for granted and underestimating them.

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All of this. The Arkansas players seemed to come out expecting MS to just lay down and lose due to facing a top 10 team. They had definitely been reading their own press for the last week and thought they could sleepwalk to a win.

Then the Hogs turned the ball over 3 times uncharacteristically, one of them on the goal line on the way to a TD. This gave MS the momentum and put the Hogs in a huge hole to dig out of.

Add the fact that Petrino had this game circled and schemed for it all off-season, he and his players wanted this one bad. BP is still an offensive genius and the Hogs' secondary is the weakest link on the team, anyone with a football IQ above zero knew he'd pick it apart.

We were very lucky to escape with the win last night, I think we got caught flat-footed looking ahead and Petrino capitalized on it by throwing everything he had into this game. Arkansas has a LOT of work to do and I think they'll improve quite a bit from this scare