Analyzing Arkansas' 7-year ache

Arkansas defensive linemen Briston Guidry and Armon Watts sack Vanderbilt quarterback Kyle Shurmur during a game Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, in Fayetteville. LITTLE ROCK — Describing Arkansas’ football program since Sept. 1, 2012, mired in mediocrity is too kind and gentle. Horrendous is more apropos.

Barring an in-season reversal unseen since Frank Broyles’ first year as Arkansas’ coach, the Razorbacks will have the worst record in the SEC for the past seven years and the numbers are mind-numbing.

The genesis of the research was a phone conversation with a long-time friend and former cohort shortly after Arkansas’s 14-point loss to Vanderbilt. He had read or heard that the Razorbacks’ 0-5 start…