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Arkansas Razorbacks

SECFayetteville, ARRazorback Stadium

2026: 3–⁠4 (1–⁠3 SEC). Last: won at Vanderbilt 31–⁠21. Next: Missouri, Saturday, Oct 31.

  1. W 31–⁠14North Alabama
  2. L 10–⁠43at No. 20 Utah
  3. L 17–⁠45No. 2 Georgia
  4. W 34–⁠6Tulsa
  5. L 7–⁠34at Texas A&M
  6. L 17–⁠24No. 15 Tennessee
  7. W 31–⁠21at Vanderbilt
  8. Oct 31Missouri
  9. Nov 7at Auburn
  10. Nov 14South Carolina
  11. Nov 21at Texas
  12. Nov 28LSU
  • Outfitted by Nike
  • Live mascot: Tusk
  • Sudler Trophy, 2006

Arkansas in the news

Arkansas has played football since 1894 and is 719–⁠542–⁠37 in the 1,298 games on record here, which start in 1903. Arkansas claims one national championship (1964). Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 2, in 1964. They have won 13 Southwest Conference titles (the last in 1989), counting shared titles. Since 1938, the NFL Draft has taken 173 players from here in its first seven rounds, 24 of them in the first round. The AAFC and AFL drafts also took four players from here. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 9 players and 6 coaches from Arkansas. Frank Broyles (1958–⁠1976) won more games here than any other coach: 144. The most-played rival is Texas A&M: 83 meetings, Arkansas leads 42–⁠38–⁠3. This season, under Ryan Silverfield, they’re 3–⁠4.

Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville
Razorback StadiumPhoto: Brandonrush, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

On this date in 2024Arkansas lost to No. 8 LSU 34–⁠10 at home.

Résumé

All-time record
717–⁠534–⁠37 official; 719–⁠542–⁠37 on file; how we count
Postseason
18–⁠25 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
1 of 400 ranked
Elo now
1479 84th of 138 FBS
Computer rankings
Massey No. 49 · Composite No. 78 in FBS, Oct 17; up 11 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
Best season by Elo
2011 rated 1749
Conference titles
13 last in 1989
Bowl record
18–⁠24–⁠3 official, bowls only
Seasons
124 since 1903, 1,298 games

Identity

Fight song
Arkansas Fight
Mascot
Big Red
Student section
Trough
Apparel
Nike

2026 season 3–⁠4

RosterFull 2026 season
DateOpponentResultElo
Sep 5vsNorth AlabamaW 31–⁠1484%
Sep 12at20UtahL 10–⁠4320%
Sep 19vs2GeorgiaL 17–⁠4523%
Sep 26vsTulsaW 34–⁠658%
Oct 3atTexas A&ML 7–⁠3427%
Oct 10vs15TennesseeL 17–⁠2432%
Oct 17atVanderbiltW 31–⁠2125%
Oct 31vsMissouriPreview37%
Nov 7atAuburnPreview32%
Nov 14vsSouth CarolinaPreview49%
Nov 21atTexasPreview18%
Nov 28vsLSUPreview34%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Arkansas’s Elo through 2026: 1460 going into the opener, 1479 after the latest game.142514501475Elo 1460 going in; beat North Alabama 31–14Elo 1468 going in; lost to Utah 43–10Elo 1456 going in; lost to Georgia 45–17Elo 1441 going in; beat Tulsa 34–6Elo 1469 going in; lost to Texas A&M 34–7Elo 1452 going in; lost to Tennessee 24–17Elo 1440 going in; beat Vanderbilt 31–21Now: Elo 1479 after the latest game1479
North AlabamaUtahGeorgiaTulsaTexas A&MTennesseeVanderbiltNow
Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

Future schedule

2027–⁠34
20273 games: 2 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20282 games: 1 home, 1 away, non-conference only
20293 games: 3 home, non-conference only
20302 games: 1 home, 1 neutral, non-conference only
20311 game: 1 home, non-conference only
20321 game: 1 away, non-conference only
20331 game: 1 home, non-conference only
20341 game: 1 away, non-conference only

Arkansas’s announced games beyond the seasons on our schedule, as its Wikipedia article lists them (announced schedules as of September 30, 2026). Schedules change; a season shows only the games named so far, and many articles list non-conference games only. Future schedules: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Players

The 2026 rosterRecord bookAll-time letterwinnersThe money

On the 2026 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Arkansas.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Around the program

Apparel
Nike · Official source
Mascot
Big Red · Official source
Live mascot
Tusk (Russian boar) · Official source
Student section
Trough · Official source
Offensive coordinator
Tim Cramsey · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

The apparel deal

Nike, from July 2010. 5 years. A 2010 deal ran five years, and a 2014 report still describes the partnership. The current term hasn't been confirmed here.

Apparel deals: Field Drip. Terms as the outlets reported them; checked Oct 3, 2026.

Program strength since 1903

Best seasons ever
Arkansas end-of-season Elo from 1903 to 2026, best in 2011 at 1749.13001500170019001920194019601980200020202011 peak: Elo 1749
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

More coverage

Found through the GDELT Project, which indexes news sites worldwide. Each link opens the story on the outlet’s own site; each picture is that outlet’s own preview of its story, shown from its site and credited to it.

Podcasts

Found through Podcast Index, the open podcast directory. Each link opens the episode’s page.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Ryan Silverfield20263–⁠4
Sam Pittman2020–⁠202532–⁠34
Bobby Petrino2008–⁠202534–⁠24
Barry Lunney Jr.20190–⁠2
Chad Morris2018–⁠20194–⁠18
Bret Bielema2013–⁠201729–⁠34
John Smith20124–⁠8
Reggie Herring20070–⁠1
Houston Nutt1998–⁠200775–⁠48
Danny Ford1993–⁠199725–⁠31–⁠1
Joe Kines19923–⁠6–⁠1
Jack Crowe1990–⁠19929–⁠15
Ken Hatfield1984–⁠198955–⁠17–⁠1
Lou Holtz1977–⁠198360–⁠21–⁠2
Frank Broyles1958–⁠1976144–⁠58–⁠5
Jack Mitchell1955–⁠195717–⁠12–⁠1
Bowden Wyatt1953–⁠195411–⁠10
Otis Douglas1950–⁠19529–⁠21
John Barnhill1946–⁠194922–⁠17–⁠3
Glen Rose1944–⁠19458–⁠12–⁠1
John Tomlin19432–⁠7
George Cole19423–⁠7
Fred Thomsen1929–⁠194156–⁠61–⁠10
Francis Schmidt1922–⁠192841–⁠21–⁠3
George McLaren1920–⁠19218–⁠5–⁠3
J.B. Craig19193–⁠4
Norman Paine1917–⁠19188–⁠3–⁠1
T.T. McConnell1915–⁠19168–⁠6–⁠1
E.T. Pickering1913–⁠191410–⁠8
Hugo Bezdek1908–⁠191229–⁠13–⁠1
Frank Longman1906–⁠19076–⁠8–⁠3
Ancil D. Brown1904–⁠19050–⁠4
D.A. McDaniel19031–⁠2

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesARK record
Texas A&M8342–⁠38–⁠3
Texas8023–⁠57
SMU7337–⁠31–⁠5
Ole Miss7237–⁠32–⁠1 †
LSU7023–⁠43–⁠2 †
Tulsa7052–⁠16–⁠2
TCU7044–⁠24–⁠2
Baylor7035–⁠33–⁠2

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.

Rivals the program names: LSU, Missouri, Texas, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Texas Tech.

Every opponent (143)

Every program Arkansas has played, A to Z, with Arkansas’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.

Conference titles

13, counting shared titles
Southwest Conference 13
1936, 1946 (shared), 1954, 1959 (shared), 1960, 1961 (shared), 1964, 1965, 1968 (shared), 1975 (shared), 1979 (shared), 1988, 1989
SEC West 4
1995, 1998 (tied), 2002 (tied), 2006

As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.

Conferences

  1. Independent 1894–⁠1914
  2. Southwest Conference 1915–⁠1991
  3. SEC since 1992
  • 1992Joined the SEC from the Southwest Conference in football. Source

Arkansas’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

National award winners

All awards
2021Grant Morgan LBBurlsworth
2015Hunter Henry TEMackey
2010D.J. Williams TEMackey
2007Darren McFadden RBWalter Camp, Doak Walker
2007Jonathan Luigs CRimington
2006Darren McFadden RBDoak Walker
1977Lou Holtz coachEddie Robinson, Walter Camp Coach
1966Loyd Phillips DTOutland
1954Bud Brooks OGOutland

Consensus All-Americans 25

2015Hunter Henry TE
2011Joe Adams APB
2007Darren McFadden RB
2007Felix Jones APB
2007Jonathan Luigs C
2006Darren McFadden RB
2003Shawn Andrews OT
2002Shawn Andrews OL
1989Jim Mabry OT
1988Kendall Trainor K
1988Wayne Martin DT
1982Billy Ray Smith Jr. DE
1982Steve Korte OG
1981Billy Ray Smith Jr. DE
1979Greg Kolenda OT
1977Leotis Harris OG
1977Steve Little K
1970Dick Bumpas DT
1969Rodney Brand C
1968Jim Barnes OG
1966Loyd Phillips OT
1965Glen Ray Hines OT
1965Loyd Phillips OT
1954Bud Brooks OG
1948Clyde Scott FB

Led the nation 8

2003Matt Jones yards per carry (7.4)
1965Harry Jones yards per carry (7.7)
1964Ken Hatfield punt return yards (518 yds), punt return average (16.7)
1963Ken Hatfield punt return yards (350 yds)
1961Lance Alworth punt return yards (336 yds)
1960Lance Alworth punt return yards (307 yds)
1939Kay Eakin passing yards (962 yds)
1937Jim Benton receptions (48 catches), receiving yards (814 yds)

The NCAA’s official national leaders since 1937, from Wikipedia’s yearly leader lists.

Heisman runners-up and finalists

The votes
2007Darren McFadden RB2nd
2006Darren McFadden RB2nd

Second to fifth in the vote, from each season’s Wikipedia article.

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
9
Coaches
6
2024Dan Hampton DT
2019Darren McFadden RB
2017Danny Ford coach here, 1993–⁠1997
2010Ronnie Caveness C
2008Lou Holtz coach here, 1977–⁠1983
2000Billy Ray Smith DE
1999Chuck Dicus WR
1997Bowden Wyatt coach here, 1953–⁠1954
1992Loyd Phillips DT
1984Lance Alworth RB
1983Frank Broyles coach here, 1958–⁠1976
1971Clyde Scott FB
1971Francis Schmidt coach here, 1922–⁠1928
1967Wear Schoonover E
1954Hugo Bezdek coach here, 1908–⁠1912

In the draft

By college
NFL picks, rounds 1–⁠7
173 since 1938
First-round picks
24
AAFC and AFL picks
4 1947–⁠48, 1962–⁠63
2022Treylon Burks WRNo. 18, Tennessee Titans
2018Frank Ragnow CNo. 20, Detroit Lions
2008Darren McFadden RBNo. 4, Oakland Raiders
2008Felix Jones RBNo. 22, Dallas Cowboys
2007Jamaal Anderson DENo. 8, Atlanta Falcons
2005Matt Jones WRNo. 21, Jacksonville Jaguars
2004Shawn Andrews OTNo. 16, Philadelphia Eagles
2004Ahmad Carroll DBNo. 25, Green Bay Packers

Who came and went in the 2026 transfer portal, and every portal year.

The school

University of Arkansas
Enrollment
33,610 28,859 undergraduates, fall 2024
Where
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Public or private
Public Research 1
Founded
1871
Graduates’ median earnings
$58,191 10 years after starting

Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.

Official accounts

Football
X @razorbackfbInstagram @razorbackfbFacebook razorbackfootballua

Official accounts: the schools’ athletics websites: the ones arkansasrazorbacks.com lists for its football program, as of Oct 12, 2026.

On the newsreel

And 2 more

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Media guides 18

200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Arkansas’s football media guides, from the University of Arkansas library’s repository. Where our roster source has no full roster for a season, the roster page shows the guide’s printed one.

Books

And 2 more

Books: Open Library (CC0), filed under the program’s Library of Congress subject heading; most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

Season by season

National champions

Shaded: national title seasons, No. 1 in the final AP poll or claimed by Arkansas (1 claimed).

SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20263–⁠41–⁠3Ryan Silverfield1479-2.4
20252–⁠100–⁠8Sam Pittman, Bobby Petrino14405.1
20247–⁠63–⁠5Sam Pittman154311.0
20234–⁠81–⁠7Sam Pittman14693.5
20227–⁠63–⁠519Sam Pittman161812.0
20219–⁠44–⁠421Sam Pittman160813.8
20203–⁠73–⁠7Sam Pittman14131.6
20192–⁠100–⁠8Chad Morris, Barry Lunney Jr.1298-10.6
20182–⁠100–⁠8Chad Morris13594.5
20174–⁠81–⁠7Bret Bielema14412.1
20167–⁠63–⁠5Bret Bielema15747.9
20158–⁠55–⁠318Bret Bielema166919.2
20147–⁠62–⁠6Bret Bielema162912.2
20133–⁠90–⁠8Bret Bielema14321.5
20124–⁠82–⁠610John Smith154411.6
201111–⁠26–⁠2155Bobby Petrino174921.6
201010–⁠36–⁠21712Bobby Petrino170827.1
20098–⁠53–⁠5Bobby Petrino162316.0
20085–⁠72–⁠6Bobby Petrino15064.8
20078–⁠54–⁠421Houston Nutt, Reggie Herring159918.0
200610–⁠47–⁠115Houston Nutt162520.6
20054–⁠72–⁠6Houston Nutt151510.6
20045–⁠63–⁠5Houston Nutt156115.4
20039–⁠44–⁠4Houston Nutt163121.0
20029–⁠55–⁠3Houston Nutt158015.2
Every season back to 1903 (99 more)
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20017–⁠54–⁠4Houston Nutt155414.0
20006–⁠63–⁠5Houston Nutt15155.1
19998–⁠44–⁠42217Houston Nutt160811.4
19989–⁠36–⁠216Houston Nutt161819.2
19974–⁠72–⁠6Danny Ford14322.5
19964–⁠72–⁠6Danny Ford1454-1.2
19958–⁠56–⁠2Danny Ford15185.7
19944–⁠72–⁠6Danny Ford14544.6
19935–⁠5–⁠13–⁠4–⁠1Danny Ford14955.0
19923–⁠7–⁠13–⁠4–⁠1Jack Crowe, Joe Kines14167.4
19916–⁠65–⁠3Jack Crowe14755.0
19903–⁠81–⁠714Jack Crowe1463-7.9
198910–⁠27–⁠11013Ken Hatfield170819.2
198810–⁠27–⁠012Ken Hatfield168719.7
19879–⁠45–⁠212Ken Hatfield16459.4
19869–⁠36–⁠21915Ken Hatfield166415.2
198510–⁠26–⁠21512Ken Hatfield169016.6
19847–⁠4–⁠15–⁠3Ken Hatfield161316.3
19836–⁠54–⁠4Lou Holtz15583.7
19829–⁠2–⁠15–⁠2–⁠1139Lou Holtz166717.0
19818–⁠45–⁠3Lou Holtz163114.5
19807–⁠53–⁠56Lou Holtz16287.9
197910–⁠27–⁠1208Lou Holtz173523.7
19789–⁠2–⁠16–⁠2211Lou Holtz173122.2
197711–⁠17–⁠13Lou Holtz174424.0
19765–⁠5–⁠13–⁠4–⁠113Frank Broyles15456.2
197510–⁠26–⁠1197Frank Broyles172925.5
19746–⁠4–⁠13–⁠3–⁠119Frank Broyles157519.5
19735–⁠5–⁠13–⁠3–⁠1Frank Broyles14924.6
19726–⁠53–⁠44Frank Broyles15479.8
19718–⁠3–⁠15–⁠1–⁠1716Frank Broyles167011.2
19709–⁠26–⁠1411Frank Broyles170222.4
19699–⁠26–⁠127Frank Broyles1698
196810–⁠16–⁠16Frank Broyles1702
19674–⁠5–⁠13–⁠3–⁠1Frank Broyles1570
19668–⁠25–⁠25Frank Broyles1694
196510–⁠17–⁠063Frank Broyles1737
196411–⁠07–⁠02Frank Broyles1712
19635–⁠53–⁠48Frank Broyles1589
19629–⁠26–⁠16Frank Broyles1682
19618–⁠36–⁠19Frank Broyles1654
19608–⁠36–⁠1197Frank Broyles1648
19599–⁠25–⁠19Frank Broyles1643
19584–⁠62–⁠4Frank Broyles1539
19576–⁠42–⁠4Jack Mitchell1567
19566–⁠43–⁠3Jack Mitchell1564
19555–⁠4–⁠13–⁠2–⁠1Jack Mitchell1567
19548–⁠35–⁠110Bowden Wyatt1603
19533–⁠72–⁠4Bowden Wyatt1449
19522–⁠81–⁠5Otis Douglas1387
19515–⁠52–⁠4Otis Douglas1511
19502–⁠81–⁠5Otis Douglas1431
19495–⁠52–⁠4John Barnhill1485
19485–⁠52–⁠413John Barnhill1496
19476–⁠4–⁠11–⁠4–⁠1John Barnhill1542
19466–⁠3–⁠25–⁠11816John Barnhill1528
19453–⁠71–⁠5Glen Rose1356
19445–⁠5–⁠12–⁠2–⁠1Glen Rose1376
19432–⁠71–⁠4John Tomlin1339
19423–⁠70–⁠6George Cole1404
19413–⁠70–⁠6Fred Thomsen1450
19404–⁠61–⁠5Fred Thomsen1471
19394–⁠5–⁠12–⁠3–⁠1Fred Thomsen1513
19382–⁠7–⁠11–⁠5Fred Thomsen1511
19376–⁠2–⁠23–⁠2–⁠114Fred Thomsen1663
19367–⁠35–⁠118Fred Thomsen1622
19355–⁠52–⁠4Fred Thomsen1520
19344–⁠4–⁠22–⁠3–⁠1Fred Thomsen1495
19337–⁠3–⁠14–⁠1Fred Thomsen1507
19321–⁠6–⁠21–⁠4Fred Thomsen1380
19313–⁠5–⁠10–⁠4Fred Thomsen1396
19303–⁠62–⁠2Fred Thomsen1402
19297–⁠21–⁠2Fred Thomsen1582
19287–⁠22–⁠1Francis Schmidt1576
19278–⁠12–⁠1Francis Schmidt1564
19265–⁠50–⁠1Francis Schmidt1455
19254–⁠4–⁠10–⁠2–⁠1Francis Schmidt1467
19247–⁠2–⁠11–⁠2–⁠1Francis Schmidt1495
19236–⁠2–⁠12–⁠2Francis Schmidt1472
19224–⁠51–⁠3Francis Schmidt1377
19215–⁠3–⁠12–⁠1George McLaren1440
19203–⁠2–⁠22–⁠0–⁠1George McLaren1424
19193–⁠41–⁠2J.B. Craig1348
19183–⁠20–⁠1Norman Paine1434
19175–⁠1–⁠10–⁠1–⁠1Norman Paine1491
19164–⁠40–⁠2T.T. McConnell1430
19154–⁠2–⁠11–⁠1T.T. McConnell1424
19143–⁠6E.T. Pickering1346
19137–⁠2E.T. Pickering1511
19124–⁠6Hugo Bezdek1473
19116–⁠2–⁠1Hugo Bezdek1559
19107–⁠1Hugo Bezdek1594
19097–⁠0Hugo Bezdek1558
19085–⁠4Hugo Bezdek1419
19074–⁠4–⁠1Frank Longman1400
19062–⁠4–⁠2Frank Longman1409
1905few games on file0–⁠3Ancil D. Brown1425
1904few games on file0–⁠1Ancil D. Brown1465
1903few games on file1–⁠2D.A. McDaniel1486

Officially 717–⁠534–⁠37 since 1894 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 719–⁠542–⁠37 (+2 wins, +8 losses). Our file starts in 1903; the program began in 1894. Official totals drop vacated and forfeited wins.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.