Razorbacks

With the college football season approaching, I think it is time to discuss my favorite team. The University of Arkansas football team is poised to make a run for their first SEC title and possibly a national title. The Razorbacks, under fourth year fourth year head coach Bobby Petrino has all the pieces together for greatness.

Offensively, the Hogs are just as good, if not better than they were a year ago. And that is with star quarterback Ryan Mallett gone to the NFL. But despite what many people may think, Tyler Wilson is a much better college QB than Mallett. Wilson has the ability to scramble away from the ever so fast SEC defensive linemen, an attribute Mallett never had. And the only near perfect game that Mallett had last season, was in the Sugar Bowl. The only problem was that his receivers had their worst game of the year at the same time. But Wilson showed us his talents in a very close shootout with eventual national champs, Auburn. And Wilson will have plenty of help with the return of arguably one of the best wide receivers in the nation, Greg Childs. Along with Joe Adams and Jarius Wright, Childs looks to come back from his knee injury and smoke SEC defenses.

But the breakout star of 2010 was running back Knile Davis. The SEC's leading rusher of 2010, didn't even start the whole season. He was in fact the last RB on the Hogs depth-chart. But in late October, he began adding balance to the Razorback's offense. His SEC leading 1,322 yards gave the Razorbacks that extra threat on the ground to keep defenses on their toes. He looks to have an even better year this season, though I did read today on espn.com, he suffered some sort of leg injury in practice. But should he be healthy for opening day, look for big numbers from him every week.

On defense, Arkansas has improved greatly over last season. Coach Petrino has managed to take one of the worst defenses in the nation his first year, to a powerful machine in his fourth year. Though it is not the best defense in the SEC, it doesn't have to be. With the offensive threat Arkansas possesses, the defense just has to hold it's opponents to a minimum amount of yards and points. With returning starters Jake Bequette(DE, team sack leader), Jerry Franklin(LB, team leading tackler), and Tramain Thomas(S) the Hogs defense looks better than it has in years.

Even though their schedule is an easy one, at least for SEC teams it's easy, the big games that stand out right now are, Sept. 24 at Alabama, Oct 1 Texas A&M at Cowboys Stadium, and Nov. 25 at LSU. The rest of the schedule shouldn't be to much of a problem though never count out an SEC team, especially South Carolina or Mississippi State. But I feel LSU is over rated and Texas A&M is good, but we are better. Going into Alabama will be the toughest of all, but we nearly beat them last year, before Mallett threw the game away in the fourth quarter. But I do feel we could go undefeated or at worst one loss to 'Bama this season.

So watch out for them Hogs, cause this just might be their year.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PIG SOOOOIEEEEEEE RAZORBACKS!