re: Why have State and Aggy owned Bert?

Its baffling at first glance how a team that mauls LSU loses to MSU and A&M... until you look at some of the other factors.

Last year Arkansas was absolutely dreadful in pass defense. Possibly the worst the team has ever been in our program's history. Both the Aggies and Bulldogs love to chuck the ball around and they both beat us in close games as a result.

When you look at the yards that Auburn and Ole Miss put up on us last year through the air if either of their team's defenses had bothered to show up we drop both of those as well. God bless the Landshart defense.

Arkansas under Bert has trouble defending against spread passing attacks. Teams that either don't or can't unleash that sort of attack on the Hogs generally run into all kinds of pain, hence Arkansas being firmly in cruise control mode over LSU the last two years and crushing an Ole Miss team that was suffering through a Bad Bo day two years ago.

We are a team that is built around making running first teams miserable. Bert and company are going to need to change things up to do better against the pass though or 8 wins is going to be his ceiling in the conference.