Ever since the Southwest Classic football game between Arkansas and Texas A&M moved to AT&T Stadium permanently in 2014, the Razorbacks have been snakebitten by the cruel hand of fate. Arkansas won three straight games in Arlington from 2009 to 2011, but when the series moved back to "Jerry's World" after a brief return to campuses, a switch had been flipped. Whether it be overtime losses in 2014, 2015 and 2017, a 99-yard scoop-and-score in 2022 or blowouts in 2016 and 2023, the Razorbacks have been on a "good run of bad luck" — as country music artist Clint Black said in 1993 — against their old rival.
Only a lone victory in 2021 provides Arkansas fans with any good memories inside the home of the Cowboys over the past decade. When most Arkansas fans think of the state-of-the-art facility, all they see are visions of Trevor Knight running wild, or a Cam Little field goal fluttering harmlessly through the air before bouncing off the very top of the upright. So many things have gone wrong for Arkansas in Arlington that it's completely understandable why fans are so pessimistic every time the game nears on the calendar.
Even if Arkansas has a top-25 team under them — see 2016 — they always come up short in excruciating fashion. Even with Chad Morris at the helm in 2018 and 2019, Arkansas took the Aggies down to the wire, losing Morris' bouts in Arlington by a combined 11 points. In 2022, a 3-0 Arkansas team ranked No.
10 in the country took an early 14-0 lead —f only .
