Do many Arkansas fans consider LSU a rival?

At one time their was a few Arkansas players each year that wanted to go to LSU but didn't get a scholarship. So, they always played harder to beat LSU.

Arkansas doesn't really have a true rival in the SEC. The closest one is Ole Miss. It was heated enough that both programs wouldn't play each for 20 years.

For me, yes but for personal reasons rather than cultural. My two best friends are both LSU fans so naturally I hate LSU. Outside of that reason, I don't see LSU as more of a rival than anyone else in the SEC West, although I do think the trophy is awesome and I'm all for trophy games. I also miss the Friday after Thanksgiving game and I couldn't give less of a frick about Mizzou.

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Arkansas has no rivals.

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Not true! Arkansas have teams in the Big 12! That's where Arkansas will fit in nicely!

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It was a manufactured rivalry that younger Razorback fans probably began to put importance on because it was always the last game of the season, and something needed to replace Texas.

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This is the right answer, along with most everything tkeefer said. When Arkansas entered the SEC, most of us had no idea that we'd played LSU so many times. While it was LSU that spoiled our national championship hopes in the '65 Cotton Bowl, and it was LSU who we beat before changing our mascot to "Razorbacks", that '65 game was the last time Arkansas/LSU had played. All but a few of the games occurred before 1950.

Texas was our big rival in the SWC and they refused to play us after we left. We needed a game to replace Texas and most Arkansas fans just looked to Tennessee. Unlike LSU, we did consider Ole Miss a rival, but Tennessee was much better back then, so the Tennessee game was more enticing.

When the Boot was first proposed, no one liked it. Many were saying that it should at least be Ole Miss, although Missy already had a big rival. The Boot was introduced in '96, but Arkansas fans continued looking at Tennessee as the big game, until two things happened. The first was that LSU began producing great teams, so the LSU game was finally as enticing as Tennessee. Then the SEC removed the 2nd cross-division opponent, so we no longer played Tennessee.

I'm not sure that I consider LSU a rival in the traditional sense, but I do love beating them now that they produce good teams. When LSU begins sucking again, I'll no longer care, though.

Even when Arkansas beats LSU (2007, 2014) they still can’t beat Mizzou

Fact is we just own you and you aren’t even as interesting or hated a rival or Nebraska or Kansas

The 1960 game. Referee Tommy Bell called a timeout in an effort to quiet hog fans. Ole Miss kicker Allen Green did not hear the whistle and kicked it between the uprights 10-7. After the timeout Ole Miss fans argued that Bell signaled the kick was good as soon as Green connected with the ball. Arkansas fans argued the kick was no good. Fighting broke all around the stadium. So the series was last played in Jackson the next year. It was cancelled until both teams renewed it in 1981.

We should be rivals in baseball but LSU has sucked lately.

We have a superior basketball program but don’t recruit well enough in football.

Rivalry declined.

It would have grown into a rivalry, if the game was still played day after thanksgiving.
I always kind of liked lsu. Your fans are obnoxious though.