ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS 2005 FOOTBALL HOGS TAKE ON TIGERS IN ANNUAL BATTLE OF THE BOOT: Arkansas will travel to Baton Rouge to take on the No. 3 LSU Tigers in the annual Battle of the Boot. The GAME 11 Razorbacks and Tigers will play for the trophy for the 10th time when the two teams meet at Tiger Stadium. The game is slated for a 1:40 p.m. CT kickoff and will be tele- Arkansas vs. vised by CBS Sports. Arkansas (4-6, 2-5 SEC) will be looking to parlay the momentum of back-to-back vic- tories over Ole Miss and Mississippi State into a season-ending win against the Tigers. Louisiana State LSU (9-1, 6-1 SEC) will be looking clinch a share of the SEC Western Division title Friday, Nov. 25, Baton Rouge, La. and punch its ticket to next weekend’s SEC Championship Game in Atlanta, Ga. 1:40 p.m. CT Tiger Stadium NOTING THE RAZORBACKS: * Arkansas and LSU will meet for the 51st time on the gridiron on Friday when the two teams meet in Baton Rouge. LSU leads the series 31-17-2 including wins in three of the Rankings: Arkansas (4-6, 2-5 SEC) - NR last four meetings. The Tigers have won eight of 13 meetings since the Razorbacks Louisiana State (9-1, 6-1 SEC) - (No. 3 AP/ entered the SEC in 1992. (For more on the series see p. 2) No. 3 USA Today) * For the 10th-consecutive year since its inception, Arkansas and LSU will be playing for The Coaches: "The Golden Boot," a trophy shaped like the two states combined. The trophy was intro- Arkansas: Houston Nutt (Oklahoma State, 1981) duced into the series prior to the 1996 game. It is believed to be the heaviest trophy Career Record: 93-61/.604 (13th year) awarded in a college football rivalry. It weighs approximately 175 pounds. Arkansas Record: 57-39/.594 (8th year) * Arkansas has played the fourth-toughest schedule in the nation according to vs. Louisiana State: 3-4 NCAA rankings this week. Vanderbilt, USC, Alabama, Louisiana-Monroe, Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and LSU have combined to post a Louisiana State: Les Miles (Michigan, 1976) 57-33 record (.633). Missouri State isn’t included in the rankings since it is Division I-AA. Career Record 37-22/.627 (5th year) All games against Division I-AA opponents by Arkansas and its opponents aren’t includ- School Record: 9-1/.900 (1st year) ed in the ratings. Results against Arkansas are also not taken into the equation. vs. Arkansas: 0-0 * Five of Arkansas’ 11 opponents were ranked this season marking only the fourth time TV: CBS - 1:40 p.m. CT in school history that the Hogs have played as many as five nationally ranked teams in one season. All four occurrences have come since 1997 with three of those coming in Play-by-Play: Craig Bolerjack the Houston Nutt era. The Hogs faced five nationally ranked opponents in 1997, 2000, Analyst: Spencer Tillman 2004 and 2005. Sidelines: Dwayne Ballen * Arkansas freshman Felix Jones leads the nation in kickoff returns with an aver- Radio: ARSN age of 33.73 yards per return. Jones became the seventh Razorback in history to Play-by-Play: Paul Eells return a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown last weekend against Mississippi State. No Analyst: Keith Jackson UA player has ever led the nation in kickoff returns. Sidelines: Quinn Grovey * Arkansas has employed more true freshmen on the field this season than any team in the nation according to a recent poll of football sports information directors. The Internet: Live audio and stats at www.hogwired.com Razorbacks have played 18 true freshmen in the first nine games of the season. Of those 18 players, five true freshmen have earned a start on offense or defense includ- ing quarterback Casey Dick in each of the past three games. ARKANSAS (4-6, 2-5 SEC) LOUISIANA STATE (9-1, 6-1 SEC) Date Opponent Site TV Time/Result Date Opponent Site TV Time/Result Sept. 3 Missouri State Fayetteville, Ark. None W, 49-17 Sept. 10 at Arizona State Tempe, Ariz. ESPN W, 35-31 Sept. 10 *Vanderbilt Fayetteville, Ark. None L, 24-28 Sept. 26 *Tennessee Baton Rouge, La. ESPN L, 27-30 OT Sept. 17 USC Los Angeles, Calif. FSN L, 17-70 Oct. 1 *at Mississippi State Starkville, Miss. PPV W, 37-7 Sept. 24 *at Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. JP L, 13-24 Oct. 8 *at Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. ESPN2 W, 34-6 Oct. 8 #La.-Monroe Little Rock, Ark. None W, 44-15 Oct. 15 *Florida Baton Rouge, La. CBS W, 21-17 Oct. 15 *Auburn Fayetteville, Ark. None L, 17-34 Oct. 22 *Auburn Baton Rouge, La. ESPN W, 20-17 OT Oct. 22 *at Georgia Athens, Ga. JP L, 20-23 Oct. 29 North Texas Baton Rouge, La. None W, 56-3 Nov. 5 *South Carolina (HC) Fayetteville, Ark. JP L, 10-14 Nov. 5 Appalachian State Baton Rouge, La. None W, 24-0 Nov. 12 *at Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. None W, 28-17 Nov. 19 *at Mississippi Oxford, Miss. ESPN2 W, 40-7 Nov. 19 *#Mississippi State Little Rock, Ark. None W, 44-10 Nov. 25 *Arkansas Baton Rouge, La. CBS 1:40 p.m. Nov. 25 *LSU Baton Rouge, La. CBS 1:40 p.m. * SEC Game # Little Rock, Ark. All Times Central * SEC Game All Times Central www.hogwired.com www.houstonnutt.com ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS 2005 FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTING THE 2005 SEASON SERIES HISTORY: Arkansas and LSU will meet for the 51st time on the gridiron on Friday when the two teams meet in Baton Rouge. LSU leads the series 31-17-2 includ- The Missouri State Game ing wins in three of the last four meetings. The Tigers have won eight of 13 meetings Arkansas racked up 483 yards rushing against the Bears, which ranks as the seventh highest single-game total in school history. since the Razorbacks entered the SEC in 1992. The Razorbacks had three running backs gain over 100 yards rush- LSU holds a 7-1-1 advantage in games played in Baton Rouge. Arkansas won in its ing in a single game for the first time since the 2001 season, including first league contest in Baton Rouge by a score of 42-24 in 1993. The Hogs featured Felix Jones (137), Peyton Hillis (135) and De’Arrius Howard (120). three 100-yard rushers in that win over the Tigers. Vickiel Vaughn and Sam Olajubutu led the Hogs’ defense with 10 From 2001-03, the winner of the game went on to represent the SEC Western tackles each. The Vanderbilt Game Division in the SEC Championship Game. This week's game will mark the 10th time the Senior running back De’Arrius Howard rushed for a career-high two teams have met on the Friday following Thanksgiving. The post-holiday football tra- 139 yards on 21 carries. dition began in 1996. Quarterback Robert Johnson had his most prolific passing day as a Razorback with a career-high 204 yards on 17-of-29 passing. He threw two touchdowns and one interception. OTHER SERIES NOTES: LSU has outscored Arkansas 741-664 in the series. .The Vickiel Vaughn recorded a career-high 11 tackles against teams first met in 1907 in Baton Rouge. .Between 1913 and 1936 the teams played Vanderbilt. He also tied his career best with two pass breakups. 23 times with all of those games played in Shreveport. .There has been 17 shutouts The USC Game in the series including a scoreless tie in 1947. .The last true shutout came in 1995 Freshman Felix Jones tallied 224 all-purpose yards against the No. 1 Trojans. Jones rushed for 66 yards and netted 147yards on four when LSU posted a 28-0 victory in Baton Rouge. .There have been 16 games decid- kickoff returns. ed by a touchdown or less, with LSU holding a 13-3 advantage in those games. .The Arkansas rushed for 197 yards against the Trojans. It was the largest margin of victory in the series was 51 points by Arkansas in a 51-0 win in 1910. most rushing yardage USC had given up in 37 games dating back to an overtime game against Washington State in 2002. The Alabama Game BATTLE FOR THE BOOT: For the 10th-consecutive year since its inception, Arkansas Arkansas rushed for 41 yards on 11 carries in the first quarter, top- and LSU will be playing for "The Golden Boot," a trophy shaped like the two states com- ping what Alabama had been allowing per game (38.0). bined. The trophy was introduced into the series prior to the 1996 game. It is believed Freshman Darren McFadden’s 70-yard fourth-quarter touchdown to be the heaviest trophy awarded in a college football rivalry. It weighs approximately run was the longest of his career. 175 pounds. Senior linebacker Sam Olajubutu tallied a new career-high 16 tack- les, including two tackles for a loss of 10 yards. In six of the last seven meetings, the trophy has changed hands. LSU is the only The Louisiana-Monroe Game school to defend the trophy. LSU won the trophy in its first two years (1996, 1997) before Darren McFadden and Felix Jones became the first freshmen duo Arkansas reclaimed it in 1998. LSU won the trophy in 1999. The Razorbacks won the in Razorback history to each rush for 100 yards in a game and they trophy in 2000 with a 14-3 win in Little Rock before the Tigers earned it back last sea- both set career-highs with two rushing touchdowns.