FAYETTEVILLE — Eastern Illinois head coach Kim Dameron knew that for his Panthers to hang in there Saturday at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, they could not make mistakes.
That didn’t happen as Football Championship Subdivision EIU fumbled six times, five of which Arkansas recovered en route to a 55-20 win before an announced crowd of 63,342.
“We haven’t done that all fall camp, even in two scrimmages we never turned it over much,” said Dameron, an Arkansas receiver and defensive back from 1979-82. “But I think a lot of it early was the speed of the game, the contact, the size and the speed of the players that were hitting us.