FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – While making the college football playoffs isn’t a dream Arkansas fans seriously think about these days, it’s worth it to take a look back over the past several seasons to see how the new 12-team format would have shaken out, and how the Hogs did against the teams that would have made it.Here are the 12-team playoff brackets had the format existed during the previous years of the Sam Pittman era. Take note of how Arkansas did against playoff teams before reading the conclusions that can be drawn when looking at the Razorbacks’ past four years from this perspective.Barry Odom never got better at defending top level SEC offenses. In eight games, the best he ever did was give up 37 points twice. The rest of the time he gave up at least 42 and half his games ranged from 49-63 points against playoff teams.
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• Travis Williams is a better defensive coordinator than Arkansas fans give him credit. Twice his defenses held playoff teams to fewer than 25 points, keeping the Hogs within a total of 10 points of knocking off two-thirds of the playoff teams the Razorbacks faced last year. The only time it got out of hand was against Missouri when the whole team was in disarray and everyone basically quit.
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• Arkansas was two defensive stops from being a playoff team itself in 2021. Technically, the Hogs were only one defensive stop away. That Ole Miss loss came down to a failed two-point conversion attempt to win it.
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