NASHVILLE — For 721 days, Arkansas football had been searching for something that used to be taken for granted around the Razorback football facility.
Arkansas took the lead late in the third quarter and never relinquished it after that, putting an end to nearly two-years of misery bound up in a 14-game SEC losing streak with a 31-21 victory. A team that has found an unimaginable amount of ways to lose a gall game were finally able to close a long, winding chapter of program history.
Of course, the transition under first-year coach Ryan Silverfield hasn’t been an easy one to this point in his tenure.
There’s been NIL budget concerns the athletic department didn’t appear to be completely upfront about upon his hiring. Perhaps he didn’t have quite the amount of available funding, at least for this roster, but he never used it as an excuse why this team struggled early on…