Arkansas showed some fight in the fourth quarter Saturday during a 39-38 comeback win over Coastal Carolina, and the player everyone was clamoring for ended up saving the day, so why are Razorback fans so angry?
It’s because Arkansas has struggled to a 4-5 record in the fifth year under head coach Bret Bielema, and Coastal Carolina was 1-7 heading into this game in their first year as an FBS team. Arkansas should have slaughtered them. Instead, the Razorbacks were down 38-25 in the fourth quarter and had to race back to win.
It should have been over at halftime. Bad luck happens, but there should be enough of a talent gap between these two teams that the game still should have been over by at least the third quarter.
And it wasn’t all bad luck for Arkansas. For example, the Hogs caught a break on the first drive of the game when a La’Michael Pettway fumble hit his leg when he was standing out of bounds and reversed a Coastal Carolina recovery.
This isn’t Toledo, a solid Group of Five team that had no business beating
