What people dont know(and some of it,was before my time)but Arkansas used to run the Southwest Conference. After Arkansas left the SWC,and went to the SEC,the SWC fell apart. Them going to the SEC took away all the old rivals in the SWC.

 

If you watch closely during an Arkansas game you can tell which plays Coach Nutt calls and which plays belong to offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn. Malzahn, who was Springdale High School head coach this time last year, likes to load up the "Wildcat Package" where the ball is snapped to running back Darren McFadden instead of quarterback Casey Dick or Mitch Mustain. DMac will either take off with it himself, hand off to the other running back Felix Jones, or pass it to wide receiver Marcus Monk. It always ends up with some nice yardage gains. Malzahn believes in using trickery usually used by junior high teams and it always works!!

Nutt on the other hand is pretty conservative in his play calling with most of them pretty plain vanilla and easily figured out by opposing defenses. As for the LSU game the Hogs could have easily won that game if QB Casey Dick had completed more than just three passes out of 17 attempts (Nutt should have yanked him and put in freshman Mitch Mustain) and if the Hog defense had rotated back and forth between zone pass coverage and man-to-man coverage.