LITTLE ROCK—Arkansas beat Western Illinois and Louisiana-Monroe without forcing a turnover.

Against ninth-ranked Alabama, the Razorbacks might not be so fortunate.

“We’ve got to start getting some turnovers coming our way, get some short fields, score on defense, score on special teams,” coach Bobby Petrino said this week. “It’ll take all those things to win this game.”

Petrino has been talking like this ever since the Louisiana-Monroe game. With matchups against Alabama, Texas, Florida and Auburn coming up, the inexperienced Razorbacks will take any breaks ...

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