Hope for the Best: Arkansas

It’s been a heavyweight brawl since Bret Bielema took over the reins for the Hogs, and there’s no reason to expect anything different this season

Old-school football. Man-ball. Pro-style. Throwback. Ground-and-pound. No matter which colorful name strikes your particular fancy, it is a style of football long coveted by those among the Crimson Tide fan base. Far from the hurry-up no-huddle machinations of a new breed of coaches and coordinators, the style of football played by Alabama and Arkansas comes from a more brutal, blood-sweat-and-tears era of the game. It is, to extrapolate from the logic of Nick Saban himself, “what we want football to be…” Though nationwide, this gritty, grinding…