SEC Player of the Week: Mississippi State QB Dak Prescott

“We have two important games remaining in the regular season and we are grateful that our fans will be there to help provide a true home field advantage”. A few weekends ago in an overtime win against Ole Miss, Allen threw for 442 yards and six touchdown passes.

The development of the passing game and Brandon Allen as a quarterback is the most significant development for the Razorbacks. “You wouldn’t expect them to be coming around (the end) like that”. He passed Ryan Mallett to become Arkansas’ career leader in touchdown passes. “Look at my resume, that’s pretty impressive”. “That’s been our focus this week”. Throwing it isn’t necessarily wrong, but it might have been easier if they ran a normal play with more receivers closer to the line of scrimmage instead of all the way into the end zone.

Every component that can play a role in poor pass defense – such as an accurate passer, bad tackling, a lack of pass-rush pressure, shoddy coverage, a lack of eye discipline – contributed to Prescott’s field day Saturday.

Barrett Sallee is the lead SEC college football writer and national college football video analyst for Bleacher Report, as well as a host on Bleacher Report Radio on SiriusXM 83. You’ve run five straight pass plays. “We want to be there so they could hit their heads on us”. “We have to do a good job of getting our guys back mentally”.

Those last two wins came this month, a time of the year Bielema thrived at during his seven seasons at Wisconsin before taking over a dysfunctional Arkansas program in the wake of the Bobby Petrino scandal and eventual firing.

“We wear you down, and we do it in a way that hopefully it has an effect late in the game; it has an effect on our opponents late in the year, ” Bielema said. The Bulldogs have only one victory on the road against Arkansas. From there the Hogs ran up the middle to center the ball for the field-goal attempt. He connects with tight end Hunter Henry for his 62nd career touchdown pass. When the counting was done, Mariota was on more than 95 percent of the ballots, the highest in Heisman history, and his first-place margin over Melvin Gordon was 788-37. Arkansas scored the next four touchdowns to go ahead 42-31, and then Mississippi State scored three touchdowns to Arkansas’ one in the fourth quarter.

The Tigers were forced to turn to freshman Drew Lock after starter Maty Mauk was suspended in Week 5 and subsequently dismissed from the team. The preseason all-Southeastern Conference selection threw for 508 yards and five touchdowns.

Many have criticized Bielema for his decision to attempt the short-range field goal after the Razorbacks had moved the ball from their own 11-yard line to the Bulldogs’ 12 behind the crisp passing of senior quarterback Brandon Allen and his vastly improved array of receiving targets.

“I’d say he (Dak) might be the best player I’ve ever coached”, Mullen said. “So I wouldn’t change anything else”.

Arkansas’ struggles also can be traced to the number of experienced quarterbacks it has faced, as well as the offenses that utilize a quick-passing attack, as the Bulldogs did last week.