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Quote Originally Posted by iamhuge:

byu    +10 ARKANSAS What do you do when you don’t drink coffee, beer or coca cola?  What do you do when you don’t have sexual relations in college?  It’s easy, you go on a mission, come back as a 25 yr old so you can load up against 18 year olds on the football field.  There’s no such need to throw shade on BYU.  They’ve been a great program for decades. So right away when you see them getting 10 points, you just have to look closely. Woo Pig Sooey.  The hogs are loose.  In true SEC fashion, they start the season at home with two cupcake games.  Arkansas opened up with what looked like a butt kicking against FCS Western Carolina, winning 56-13.  But if you look closely at this result, poor Western Carolina had 5 turnovers to none for Arkansas and one of them was a pick 6.  The sabermetric people will tell you that a turnover is worth 5 points.  So if Western Carolina had played a clean game, then Arkansas would have won by only 18 points.  BYU beat FCS Southern Utah 41-16 as QB Slovis threw for 5 TDs.  Massey assigns a virtually identical power rating to Western Carolina and Southern Utah.  So it looks like BYU and Arkansas played comparably against these two FCS opponents. But BYU is getting 10 points in this game!  BYU is only giving up 8 points per game this season, so their defense is going to make it difficult for any opponent to cover by 10.  Those big boys on the defense for the Cougars are only yielding 2.4 yards per carry. In their opener, BYU shutout Sam Houston St by the score of 14-0.  Who the hell is Sam Houston?  In their other game, Sam Houston hung tough with Air Force, losing only by 13-3.  So BYU did better than Air Force against Sam Houston.  In the Razorback’s other game, against the Kent State Golden Showers, they really struggled on offense winning 28-6 with one of their TD’s coming as a pick 6.  In Kent State’s other game, they lost 56-6 to UCF.  Arkansas was only able to run the ball against the Golden Shower defense for 3.8 yards per carry (compared to UCF who ran for 8.5 yards per carry against Kent).      So at the end of the day, Arkansas has been less than impressive offensively against poor defenses.  They are stepping up in class tremendously against a rugged BYU front 7 who will whack KJ Jefferson if he tucks it away.  The points will come slowly for Arkansas and they have to win by 10.  That’s too tall a task against a quality undefeated team with a tough defense and a dangerous quarterback looking to make a statement…. while Arkansas is  looking ahead to their first SEC tilt next week against LSU.  Give me the points and the Cougs.