MISSISSIPPI STATE: the Hogs Will Host GAME 11 Mississippi State in Their Final Game in Arkansas for the 2007 Season
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HOGS HEAD TO LITTLE ROCK TO TACKLE MISSISSIPPI STATE: The Hogs will host GAME 11 Mississippi State in their final game in Arkansas for the 2007 season. The two teams will kickoff at War Memorial Stadium at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Arkansas vs. NOTING THE RAZORBACKS: • Arkansas and Mississippi State will Mississippi State meet on the gridiron for the 18th time in history when the two teams meet Saturday, Nov. 17, Little Rock, Ark. vs this weekend in Little Rock. UA owns a 1 p.m. CT 11-5-1 advantage in the series includ- War Memorial Stadium (53,727) ing eight-consecutive victories and 12 wins in the last 13 games. The Hogs Rankings: Mississippi State (6-4, 3-3 SEC) - RV head coach Houston Nutt is 8-1 Arkansas (6-4, 2-4 SEC) - RV against State in his tenure at UA. • Arkansas is 21-2 in games played in Little Rock since 1998. The Coaches: Arkansas: Houston Nutt (Oklahoma State, 1981) • Heisman Trophy candidate Darren McFadden is Arkansas’ career rushing leader with Career Record: 109-69/.609 (15 years) 4,191 yards entering Saturday’s game. He passed Ben Cowins (3,570 yards) against Arkansas Record: 73-48/.603 (10 years) Auburn and enters the Mississippi State game needing 113 yards to pass Auburn’s Bo vs. Mississippi State: 8-1 Jackson (1982-85) for third place on the SEC career rushing list and 367 yards to eclipse LSU’s Kevin Faulk (1995-98) for second place. Mississippi State: Sylvester Croom (Alabama, 1975) • McFadden ranks fourth nationally in rushing with 143.1 yards per game. That mark Career Record: 15-29/.341 (4 years) also leads the conference. He is averaging 175.5 all-purpose yards per game, which School Record: Same ranks 13th nationally and tops in the SEC. vs. Arkansas: 0-3 • One of the favorite sayings around the Arkansas football program comes from leg- TV: None endary football coach and athletic director Frank Broyles who says, ‘They Remember in November,’ and that is just what McFadden has proven in his career. The junior has Radio: ARSN 1,418 yards on 226 in nine November games with 10 touchdowns. That averages out to Play-by-Play: Chuck Barrett Analyst: Keith Jackson 157.56 yards per game and 6.27 yards per carry. Sidelines: Quinn Grovey • McFadden has also been at his best against the best during his Razorback career, aver- aging 126.0 yards per game over 16 games against ranked opponents. He has racked up XM Channel: 201 (Arkansas) 2,016 yards against ranked opponents with 14 touchdowns and a 5.86 yards per carry aver- Internet: Live audio and stats at www.hogwired.com age on 344 totes. (see game-by-game chart vs. ranked opponents on page 8). • McFadden is just the second player (Georgia’s Herschel Walker) in the SEC to rush for 1,000 yards as a freshman, sophomore and junior. McFadden is the second UA play- er to rush for 1,000 yards three times, joining Ben Cowins (1976-78), but the first to do it in his first three years. • McFadden set a new school record for both rushing and all-purpose yards vs. South Carolina with 321 yards rushing and 355 (321 rushing, 30 on two kickoff returns, four on ARKANSAS (6-4, 2-4 SEC) MISSISSIPPI STATE (6-4, 3-3 SEC) Date Opponent (AP/Coaches) Site TV Time/Result Date Opponent Site TV Time/Result Sept. 1 Troy Fayetteville, Ark. W, 46-26 Aug. 30 *LSU Starkville, Miss. ESPN L, 0-45 Sept. 15 *at Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. ESPN L, 38-41 Sept. 8 at Tulane New Orleans, La. CSS W, 38-17 Sept. 22 *Kentucky Fayetteville, Ark. ESPN2 L, 29-42 Sept. 15 *at Auburn Auburn, Ala. LFS W, 19-14 Sept. 29 North Texas Fayetteville, Ark. W, 66-7 Sept. 22 Gardner-Webb Starkville, Miss. W, 31-15 Oct. 6 #Chattanooga Little Rock, Ark. W, 34-15 Sept. 29 *at South Carolina Columbia, S.C. LFS L, 21-38 Oct. 13 *Auburn Fayetteville, Ark. ESPN L, 7-9 Oct. 6 UAB Starkville, Miss. W, 30-13 Oct. 20 *at Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. W, 44-8 Oct. 13 Tennessee Starkville, Miss. L, 21-33 Oct. 27 Florida International (HC) Fayetteville, Ark. W, 58-10 Oct. 20 at West Virginia Morgantown, W.V. ESPN+ L, 13-38 Nov. 3 *South Carolina Fayetteville, Ark. ESPN2 W, 48-36 Oct. 27 *at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. LFS W, 31-14 Nov. 10 *at Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn. LFS L, 13-34 Nov. 10 *Alabama Starkville, Miss. LFS W, 17-12 Nov. 17 *#Mississippi State Little Rock, Ark. 1 p.m. Nov. 17 *at Arkansas Little Rock, Ark. 1 p.m. Nov. 23 *at LSU Baton Rouge, La. CBS 1:30 p.m. Nov. 23 *Ole Miss Starkville, Miss. LFS 11:30 a.m. # Little Rock, Ark. * SEC Game All Times Central * SEC All Times Central www.hogwired.com www.houstonnutt.com ARKANSAS - MISSISSIPPI STATE one reception) all-purpose. The 321 yards on the ground tied the SEC single-game rush- ing record. He broke his own school record of 315 set vs. South Carolina last season. The SERIES HISTORY 355 all-purpose yards is also the fourth-best mark in SEC history. Arkansas leads series 11-5-1 • Jones and McFadden are the first teammates in Southeastern Conference history to both rush for 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons. They are the third pair of teammate to YEAR RESULT SCORE SITE both rush for 1,000 yards in a season in conference history. The other SEC rushing duos 1916 L 20-7 Memphis, Tenn. 1939 L 19-0 Memphis, Tenn. to both go for 1,000 yards in a season are Auburn's James Brooks and Joe Cribbs (1979), 1992 L 10-3 Starkville and Tennessee's Gerald Riggs Jr. and Cedric Houston (2004). 1993 T 13-13 Little Rock 1994 L 17-7 Starkville • McFadden and Jones are just the second pair of teammates in NCAA history to have 1995 W 26-21 Little Rock back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons. (Marion Barber III and Laurence Maroney - Minnesota). 1996 W 16-13 (OT) Starkville 1997 W 17-7 Fayetteville • McFadden’s school-rushing record of 4,191 yards also ranks fourth in career rushing 1998 L 22-21 Starkville among active Bowl Subdivision players. He also leads all active Bowl Subdivision play- 1999 W 14-9 Little Rock ers in all-purpose yards per game (152.2), while ranking third in rushing yards per game 2000 W 17-10 (OT) Starkville 2001 W 24-21 Fayetteville (119.7) and ninth in rushing touchdowns (37). 2002 W 26-19 Starkville • Fellow junior Felix Jones ranks 30th nationally and third in the SEC in rushing with 2003 W 52-6 Fayetteville 2004 W 24-21 Starkville 103.20 yards per contest. He has 1,032 yards rushing on the season with 10 touchdowns 2005 W 44-10 Fayetteville while accounting for 162.40all-purpose yards per game (1,624) to rank 19th nationally. 2006 W 28-14 Starkville Jones carried the ball just three time and returned one kickoff after being injured at UT. At Fayetteville: Arkansas leads 4-0 • Jones’ 9.05 yards per carry average leads the country. He is averaging 1.96 yards per At Little Rock: Arkansas leads 2-0-1 rush more than the second-best mark nationally, OSU’s Kendall Hunter (7.09). Jones At Starkville: Arkansas leads 5-3 also leads the country in career yards per carry among active players with 7.70 per tote. At Neutral Sites: Mississippi State leads 2-0 • Jones has been lethal on his first carry of game this season with 157 yards on 10 car- HOGWIRED PLAYERS OF THE WEEK ries with two touchdowns and five first downs. He opened the Troy game with a 40-yard Troy tote, went 35 yards for a touchdown on his first carry vs. North Texas and then scampered Offense: Felix Jones 38 yards for a TD at Ole Miss. Jones picked up a first down on an 18-yard carry vs. FIU Defense: Weston Dacus and then got another first down on a 15-yard run vs. South Carolina. He is averaging 15.7 Special Teams: *Felix Jones and Alex Tejada yards per rush on his first carry of the game this season. * also SEC Player of the Week • Arkansas’ rushing attack ranks second nationally at 297.00 yards per game. That mark Alabama also leads the SEC by 76.8 yards over second-place LSU. UA has led the SEC in rush- Offense: Darren McFadden ing four of the last five years. UA has rushed for at least 300 yards in five-of-10 games Defense: Malcolm Sheppard this season and has rushed for at least 200 yards in 13 of their last 17 games, including Special Teams: Jeremy Davis eight times this year. • Arkansas ran for 542 yards vs. South Carolina, which is the second-best total in school Kentucky history (594 vs. Pittsburg [Kan.] State in 1936). That total is the sixth-best in SEC history Offense: Nate Garner and the most for an SEC team against another SEC member. Defense: Matt Hewitt Special Teams: Felix Jones • Marcus Monk made his third-straight start of the season vs. Tennessee and two touchdown in those three start. He has 26career TD grabs, which moves him into a tie North Texas for eighth on the career SEC receiving touchdown chart. Monk has now caught at least Offense: Felix Jones on pass in 39-of-40 career games after breaking that streak vs.