re: Arkansas and aTm in old SEC

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If Ark and aTm had been original members of the SEC and never played in the old SWC, what would their history look like? Would Ark have even competed for a National Title in the 60's?

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That depends. Playing in the SWC gave us a great pipeline of talent from Texas. Was the Arkansas (assuming we still had that pipeline going) program capable of competing in and doing well against the SEC in the 60s? Yes, we had legit talent back then. The national title we claim came in a season we were undefeated and beat Texas. Texas, it should be noted, handed Alabama a loss that year.

Arkansas was quite good in the 70s and 80s and were a legit national power for many of those years. What killed us off was Broyles driving Hatfield away and then a series of either disastrous or mediocre at best hires.