I am listening to the Arkansas sports radio at the moment, and they are talking like this year’s game might be cancelled due hurricane Ike. I guess that would be a first in the rivalry, right? Arkansas and Texas both have an open date on the 27th of September, and the speculation is they might move the game to then. So possibily ANOTHER week of being undefeated!!!!! haha. And maybe another week for Tejada to get his head back on straight.

Excellent post and ranking of the best victories in the recent era. I would have to say that the Cotton Bowl win ranks the highest for me, for I was there. It could only have been better if my brother had been able to join me and my parents at the game. (THE MAN had him working on New Year’s Day.) I think I was personally responsible for the big catch by Lucas, haha, for I had to go to the restroom, and you would know it, a big play had to happen then. I was standing in the urinal line wondering what in the world had just happened, for the stadium had erupted all of a sudden. Hey, if it took me having to take a piss and missing out on a big play to get the Hogs down the field in a win over Texas, them I am happy to have played my part. Haha. Personally, I can’t think of a better way for the state of Arkansas and Hog fans everywhere to begin a new century, a new millenium, than beating Texas in a football game.

As someone whose world as he had known it had ended the day before with the demise of the Arkansas Gazette, where I had worked for 14 years, it was sheer joy as a lovely colleague and I watched the 14-13 1991 game from the north side of the east stands, near the goal line. Like REM, I could sing, “And I feel fine.”

But my favorite victories over Texas would be the back-to-back wins in 1964 and especially 1965 (when I was a freshman at the Expats and my alma mater). I listened to that 1965 game on the radio as part of a large group at the SAE house (I was the only non-member) and after Jon Brittenum marched the Hogs down field to the winning score with nothing other than passes to the immortal Bobby Crocket, we erupted. “Jon Brittenum for governor” one of us exclaimed, followed by “And Frank Broyles for god.”

Those were heady days!

You guys are sooooo young! I can think of three games that definitely top those you mentioned:

No. 1 of all time — 1964: Ken Hatfield returns a punt 89 yards to beat Texas in Austin, and we go undefeated and win our only national championship in football. It doesn’t get any bigger. I at 9 years old listened on the radio with my dad — great memory.

No. 2 — the following year, 1965, national television in the days when only one game was on for the day, and in Fayetteville this year. We jump out to a 20-0 lead thanks to Jon Brittenum, Light Hoss Harry, and a 75 yard fumble return for a TD. Darrell Royal writes on chalkboard at halftime: “Texas 21, Arkansas 20.” And of course they come back to go ahead 24-20. Not to be outdone, Brittenum, ignoring Broyles Nutt-like hysteria, hits Bobby Crockett four or five times on final drive and we win 27-24, along the way to a 22 game win streak.

No. 3 — This one isn’t as big of a deal, admittedly, but it was a great, great game. 1978, the year after the destruction of Oklahoma in Orange Bowl, and Holtz’s second year, with Gary Anderson scoring in the fourth, we beat Texass 17-14 and big party erupts in Little Rock. We lost to Houston the next week or would have been number one in the country.

Those are my 3 victories you missed, although 42-11 I watched at the Tulane Student Center, ignoring studying for a few hours of watching the Hogs in pure ecstasy.