Tide Warning

Originally Published: Sep 22, 2010 8:7 PM CDTFootball-starved fans in Oklahoma may want to spill across the Arkansas border Saturday for the biggest game in college football

Thursday, May 26th 2011, 1:27 pm

By: News On 6

Originally Published: Sep 22, 2010 8:7 PM CDT

Football-starved fans in Oklahoma may want to spill across the Arkansas border Saturday for the biggest game in college football this weekend.  Good luck finding a ticket, though.  #10 Arkansas hosting #1 Alabama is the first top-ten matchup in Fayetteville in 30 years. Does Arkansas really have a chance to win this game?  Sure, and Cincinnati has a chance to beat OU Saturday as well.  Id say the possibility of either upset happening is about 20%. For starters, Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett needs to kick his Heisman hype machine into high gear with a great performance.  Last year he was just 12 of 35 for 160 yards in the Hogs loss to the Tide.  This year, though, hes on the Heisman short list behind Terrell Pryor of Ohio State and Denard Robinson of Michigan. Mallett has thrown for 1,081 yards and 9 touchdowns and has been the nations most accurate quarterback, completing 70% of his passes.  And then theres the matter of stopping the Tide rushing game whether its defending Heisman winner Mark Ingram or the best backup in college football Trent Richardson.  Last season the Razorbacks held Ingram to just 50 yards, but quarterback Greg McElroy tossed 3 touchdown passes.  Id take my chances with making McElroy beat me again.  If they cant stop the run, the Hogs have a better chance of surviving a luau than rolling the Tide. Arkansas has lost 4 of its last 5 against the top 25. Alabama has clearly been the best team in the country this season taking into account all they returned from a season ago and what theyve done the first three weeks.  But this is the beginning of a brutal stretch of games for the Tide.  They host #9 Florida next week and then go on the road to 12th-ranked South Carolina the week after.