Blake Shapen returned after missing most of the third quarter due to injury and threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Evans III with 48 seconds left, and Mississippi State defeated Arkansas 38-35 on Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Shapen finished with two touchdown passes and 242 passing yards, Kamario Taylor had a touchdown pass and a touchdown run while filling in for Shapen, and the Bulldogs (5-4, 1-4 SEC) scored the final 17 points to win a conference game for the first time in two years.

Taylen Green threw a touchdown pass and ran for a touchdown for Arkansas (2-7, 0-5), which lost its seventh straight after committing 18 penalties for 193 yards.

On the first play of the second half, Shaken was injured while taking a hit that drew a roughing-the-passer penalty. Taylor repl

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