It’s a weekend of celebration for the Arkansas Razorback football and basketball programs.

The Razorbacks are 2-4 this season, and with six games left to play in Chad Morris’ second season as head coach, it’s hard to see any daylight.

Right now Kentucky seems to be the most vulnerable squad left on Arkansas’ SEC slate.

If the Razorbacks want to have a shot at a bowl game, a winning record, and playing meaningful football at any point during the rest of the season, they need to win at Kentucky.

Nearly 10 inches of rainfall led to wildly contrasting course conditions on Sunday as the track turned from dry, dusty grass to soggy, slippery mud.

The Chile Pepper is known as one of the premiere running events in the nation, drawing regional competitors from most of Arkansas’ border states as well as the state’s top running programs on the high school level.

Let’s forget about the first five games. Nothing can be done about them anyway, and look at the final seven games as a mini season.

This year’s game isn’t expected to be close with oddsmakers making the Hogs a 23.5-point underdog early in the week.

Broyles’ quick dismissal of Crowe sent a message to Razorback fans and the rest of the college football world that losing to The Citadel is something a proud program like Arkansas just wouldn’t accept.

The Razorbacks have not performed well on the offensive front against what should be inferior competition, and defensively have been pushed around and passed over almost at will this year and last.

If the squad continues to show incremental improvement, maybe there will be an opportunity for a true breakthrough in the SEC this year.

Last Saturday brought the first tangible signs of life on the football field that Razorback fans could get excited about for a relatively long time.

If the Razorbacks play as haphazardly this week as they did against Ole Miss, it’s going to be another sad Saturday night around the state. There have been too many of those in recent years.

The Razorbacks can’t afford to fritter away Saturday’s opportunity against an improved Rams football team.

Saturday’s battle or pillow fight as some have referred to it is for a chance to stay out of the Western Division cellar.

If the Hogs can win Saturday, all the worries about the Portland State game will be forgotten.

Every team makes mistakes, particularly in a first game, but the sharper the Hogs appear against the Vikings the better the outlook is for the rest of the season.

I personally have a good feeling about this team being far more competitive than last year’s Razorbacks.

There has been so much turnover in personnel that there is no real use in looking at last year’s squad to gauge what this team might be.