re: What are your honest expectations for the upcoming football season?

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I'm done predicting AU. Useless.

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Try predicting Arkansas this season, I'd say it's equally as unknown. "Breaking in" a new-ish QB that could either be a cool headed gunslinger or a mistake machine, an extremely talented but under-experienced o-line, a stable of RBs that all have question marks but some unknown combination of them will be top-tier, all mixed with the history of slow starts to becoming dominant towards the latter half of the season. We could either surprise a lot of people straight out of the gate or fall flat on our faces, we just don't know. It's hard to gauge right now especially with our top RBs either taking limited contact in the spring or possibly not even on campus yet.

By all accounts Austin Allen is a lot more calm and collected than Brandon, but he also has a tendency to take riskier throws and aim for the home run play way more often. He's been compared to Brett Favre, where he'll make some brilliant throws one minute and some head-scratchers the next, all in the name of going for broke. I think the extra turnovers he creates will balance itself out with the extra yardage gained from his tendency to go big and have a calm head under pressure, plus he's got a stable of 5-6 WRs and TEs that should more than help the transition.

Rawleigh Williams appeared to be back to his playing form from his short time before the neck injury during the spring game, but it was hard to gauge completely with him wearing the green no contact jersey. Super-super senior Kody Walker is out until fall practice with a broken foot, so he didn't participate. Devwah Whaley, who most expect to contribute right away like Rawleigh Williams last season, won't be here till fall.

We could honestly land anywhere from 5-7 to 9-3 this season depending on the above.