FWST: TCU preview: Game against Arkansas is first since SWC breakup
By Jimmy Burch [email protected]
TCU (1-0) vs. Arkansas (1-0)When, where: 6 p.m. Saturday, Amon G. Carter Stadium
TV: ESPN
Last week: TCU 59, South Dakota State 41; Arkansas 21, Louisiana Tech 20
TCU, the No. 15 team in this week’s Associated Press college football poll, will cross paths with former Southwest Conference rival Arkansas to end a 25-year break in the series. The Razorbacks are the lone former SWC rival that the Horned Frogs have not faced since the breakup of the SWC after the 1995 season. The teams last met in 1991, Arkansas’ final season as an SWC member before joining the SEC.
In this matchup, several things stand out: