Tennessee football unchanged in Week 11 SEC Power Rankings
Razorbacks . 9. team. 844. . 5-5 (2-4). Previous:
Lost to LSU Tigers 13-10
Two fluke losses to the worst team in the SEC and a Group of Five school, albeit a good one in the Liberty Flames, has Sam Pittman’s team clinging to the possibility of a bowl game. It may not happen, which would be a major letdown for the Arkansas Razorbacks their third year into the program. Nobody saw this coming.
The Hogs were able to move up in our SEC Power Rankings, though, because of how tough they played the SEC West Champions while so many other teams suffered colossal embarrassments. Still, the bottom half of the league is all mediocre, and that Liberty loss can’t be ignore.
It doesn’t matter that Hugh Freeze coaches Liberty and they were a top 25 team. They lost to the UConn Huskies a week later, and K.J. Jefferson was supposed to be better than Tennessee football’s Hendon Hooker in the eyes of some experts at the beginning of the season.
To make a bowl now, though, they either have to beat a really good Ole Miss Rebels team at home, or they have to visit a Mizzou team that has been pretty dangerous. That Arkansas-Missouri game could come down to a battle of third-year head coaches fighting for bowl eligibility, which neither expected by this point.