FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—They’re still the nail instead of the hammer, but at least these Razorbacks now see they’re driving towards something instead of just driven into the ground.

Hope on both sides of the Arkansas ball abounded after last Saturday’s 38-7 hammering administered by Florida unlike the gloom and doom of the 49-14 and 52-10 hammerings that Alabama and Texas put on the Hogs the two games previously.

The contrast manifests in first-year coach Bobby Petrino’s summation post Texas in Austin versus his summation following Florida in Fayetteville.

“We ar...

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