... elite) programs, their middle tier programs, and their bottom tier (cellar dweller) programs.  The SEC is no exception. Arkansas has traditionally been in the middle tier.

The key for middle tier programs to have successful years is to win your non-conference games, beat the teams on the schedule from the bottom tier, and split the games on your schedule against the other middle tier teams and occasionally beat a team that you shouldn't.  That leads to 8-4 or 9-3 seasons and good bowl games.

Early this season, I wrote that Arkansas should beat their non-conference teams, Mississippi State, and Auburn.  So far so good.

 I also wrote that Arkansas would lose to Bama, Florida, and LSU.  Again, so far that's holding up.

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