Bowl games can be hard to predict, especially in today's football world. Players enter the portal at the season ends and are no longer on the team. Or players have declared for the NFL draft and sit the game out to protect their new career. Then there are times when a team entered the season with big aspirations, only to stumble as the year went on, and end up in a bowl game with a middling Big 12 team three days after Christmas.
Enter Arkansas, a team who college football enthusiasts may remember starting the year with an outside shot at making some noise in the SEC, like what Tennessee was actually able to do.