Hogs-Dogs turned wild past 2 years

FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas Razorbacks and Mississippi State, who meet Saturday at 11 a.m., have engaged in back-to-back 100-point shootouts the past two seasons.

Mississippi State held on for a 51-50 victory by blocking Arkansas’ chipshot field-goal attempt in the final minute at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in 2015.

The Razorbacks jumped out to a 38-14 lead at halftime en route to a 58-42 victory at Mississippi State last season. Arkansas racked up 661 total yards, the fourth-most ever in an SEC game, and 357 yards on the ground.

Arkansas offensive coordinator Dan Enos said he’d like the Razorbacks to control the game tempo against the Bulldogs on Saturday.

“Every week it’s a little different,” Enos said. “I’ll try to put the game plan together to move the ball effectively, control the clock and run the ball. We’ll see how it goes.

“They’re a really, really good defense. I haven’t seen anybody else score 50 points on them this year. They’ve been very effective against the run.”

Mississippi State is allowing 19.3 points per game under first-year defensive coordinator Todd Grantham to rank 19th in the country and 131.9 rushing yards per game to rank 32nd.

Quarterbacks Dak Prescott and Nick Fitzgerald have had field days against the Hogs the past two years.

“Maybe defensively we didn’t execute the way we needed to, at least on our end,” Arkansas Coach Bret Bielema said. “But it’s just been kind of one of those games.”

Bielema pointed out the game before the 100-point slugfests was a low-scoring affair in 2014. The Bulldogs, the first-ever No. 1 team in the College Football Playoff rankings that season, won that game 17-10 at Starkville, Miss., after Arkansas built a 10-0 lead.