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Arkansas 34, Tulsa 6: 10 Things the Razorbacks Did Right and 10 They Must Fix

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Arkansas 34, Tulsa 6 Razorback Stadium SEC Network+ at Texas A&M · Oct.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football snapped its FBS losing streak Saturday night with a 34-6 win over Tulsa at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. The Razorbacks are 2-2 heading into next Saturday’s trip to Texas A&M. KJ Jackson threw for 285 yards and two total touchdowns. Chris Marshall caught nine passes for 195 yards and a score. The defense held the Golden Hurricane to 168 yards and took the ball twice after halftime. That is a real win. It is still not an SEC win.

Tulsa arrived 3-0 without starter Baylor Hayes. Arkansas arrived 1-2 after Utah and Georgia. The scoreboard said the Hogs were the better team. The tape still shows why College Station will not.

10 things the Razorbacks did right

  1. They closed the losing streak. Two straight FBS losses had the building tight. A 34-6 home night ends that talk and gives Ryan Silverfield a clean week.
  2. Chris Marshall was the offense. Nine catches, 195 yards, and a 20-yard touchdown. Tulsa coach Tre Lamb said it at the half: they could not cover No. 6.
  3. KJ Jackson ran the night. He started, stayed in, and finished with 22-of-34 passing plus rushing scores of 10 and 11 yards. The two-quarterback fog lifted for one Saturday.
  4. The front won first down. Tulsa finished with 48 rushing yards. Quincy Rhodes and the edge kept Dexter Williams II in the pocket after the first series.
  5. Takeaways finally showed. Ben Bogle recovered a third-quarter fumble. Shelton Lewis stripped another in the fourth. Both became points.
  6. Max Gilbert was automatic. He hit from 23, 35, 29, and 38. Four makes kept drives from dying when the red zone stalled.
  7. They owned the clock. Arkansas held the ball nearly 28 minutes and ran 64 plays to Tulsa’s 45.
  8. The secondary stayed home. Tulsa managed 120 passing yards. No 40-yard dagger flipped the night the way Utah and Georgia did.
  9. They answered the only scare. After Damari Alston’s 1-yard touchdown made it 16-6, Jackson hit Marshall for 20 yards on the next possession.
  10. The series streak held. Arkansas has beaten Tulsa 20 straight times since 1977. History is not a scheme. It still matters here.

10 things they must fix before Texas A&M

  1. Finish red-zone trips as touchdowns. Silverfield said it at the half. Four Gilbert field goals is a win over Tulsa. It is a loss in Kyle Field.
  2. The run game is still last in the conversation. Arkansas rushed for about 74 yards at 2.5 per carry. Sutton Smith and Braylen Russell need four yards before second-and-long becomes a passing down again.
  3. Stop taking sacks on the goal line. Back-to-back sacks by Hudson Ball and Kyran Duhon turned a fourth-quarter trip into a 38-yard kick. Texas A&M will not miss that cue.
  4. Protect third-and-manageable. The Hogs still bog down once they reach the 20. Play-calling has to stop living on fade-and-hope.
  5. One starter, not a committee. Jackson earned the week. Name him and build the script around his keep and Marshall. A split room against the Aggies is a gift.
  6. Do not donate first downs. A roughing-the-passer flag helped Tulsa’s only scoring drive. SEC officials will not need a second invitation.
  7. Tighten the edge on keeps. Williams still found a 15-yard run to the 1. Mike Elko’s quarterback will punish a late fit worse than that.
  8. Get a second receiver paid. Marshall cannot be the only answer when the safety rolls. Jamari Hawkins, Jaden Platt, and the tight ends have to punish the bracket.
  9. Turn pressure into sacks on schedule. The pass rush won the night in volume. It still let Tulsa convert a long third-down sequence on the 81-yard touchdown drive.
  10. Treat this like a floor, not a ceiling. Tulsa was a step down. Texas A&M is Saturday at 6 p.m. CT in College Station. The standard is what happens there, not what happened here.

What Saturday actually bought

Arkansas football needed a win that did not require an apology. It got one. Marshall is a first-read problem. Jackson can move chains when the pocket is clean. The defense can shrink a mid-major offense. None of that travels to Kyle Field by itself. The Razorbacks are 2-2, 0-1 SEC, with Tennessee the week after A&M. Fix the run and the red zone before the next Saturday that counts.

Arkansas 34, Tulsa 6. Next: at Texas A&M, Saturday, Oct. 3, 6 p.m. CT, Kyle Field.

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