The sports columnist in the biggest Arkansas state newspaper recently complained about the afternoon start time for Arkansas’ football opener against Rice at 1 p.m. on September. 4.
First, there’s no guarantee it’s going to be scorching hot like he’s thinking. Secondly, I’d submit the nearly 80,000 rabid Hogs fans in attendance won’t care.
That day will be a celebration – a celebration of football and normalcy.
If the game is a sellout, it will be a first time in a while. Hogs fans have endured the end of a mediocre Bret Bielema Era and then two years of the worst football on The Hill in history with two catastrophic years under Chad Morris.