When the 2025 Arkansas football schedule was announced, the Hogs’ slate again resembled a nightmare.
Road trips to Oxford, Baton Rouge, Knoxville, and Austin are hard enough. The Hogs’ home tilts against Texas A&M, Missouri, Auburn, and Mississippi State seem mostly unimposing by comparison, but the end of September brings Notre Dame to Fayetteville for its inaugural visit to Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Snuck amongst the dozen games? A mid-September jaunt to Memphis to face the Tigers, once a popular non-conference foil.
Two things jumped to mind when I saw this:
Who the hell scheduled this?
The Hogs are going to lose.
Arkansas last played Memphis in 1998, thumping the Tigers in the Liberty Bowl in Houston Nutt’s first year as head coach. They had bedeviled the Hogs during their earl