FAYETTEVILLE — After a preseason of closed scrimmages, the Arkansas Razorbacks start today’s 3 p.m. season opener striving to show cause their games shouldn’t be closed, too.
Arkansas hosts lower FCS division Portland State of the Big Sky Conference at Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Off last year’s 2-10 season, many Razorbacks fans likely wish three of those games had been closed, especially to TV.
The 44-17 licking administered by the North Texas Mean Green, whom the Razorbacks paid $1 million to visit Fayetteville, seemed the season’s nadir.
It became rivaled for ignominy by the 52-6 and 38-0 thrashings at Mississippi State and at Missouri, bringing to a close Arkansas’ 0-8 SEC campaign.