After soaring high against E. Illinois last week, Icarus fell to the ground on Saturday. Arkansas came up short against Colorado St., falling 27-34. What made the defeat an especially bitter pill for Arkansas to swallow was that Arkansas had been favored by 14 points coming into the game. No one put up better numbers for Colorado St. than K.J. Carta-Samuels, who brought his A game into the match. He accumulated 399 passing yards. Preston Williams was in the mix, too, providing Colorado St. with 5 touchdowns. The loss dropped Arkansas back to even at 1-1. The victory bumped Colorado St.'s record up to 1-2. Arkansas will look to defend their home turf against North Texas at 4:00 PM. Colorado St. are packing up and heading on the road for the first time this season. They face off against Florida at 4:00 PM.<doc-sep>Arkansas (1-0) opened the Chad Morris era with a convincing 55-20 victory over Eastern Illinois and will now move on to face the Colorado State Rams (0-2) in Fort Collins (Colo.) this weekend. Arkansas junior quarterback Ty Storey was named offensive MVP after putting together a 261-yard, four total-touchdown performance in relief of starter Cole Kelley. Storey received the first time reps in practice and is expected to be the starter come game time. For Colorado State, the buck stops at quarterback as well. Washington transfer KJ Carta-Samuels logged a school-record for passing yards in the opener against Hawaii and is throwing an average of 44 passes per game. Here’s a look at how to watch Arkansas vs Colorado State this Saturday: When: Saturday, September 8 at 6:30 pm (CT) TV: CBS Sports Network Online: CBS Sports, YouTubeTV, Hulu, fuboTV Radio: Razorback Sports Network from IMG (99.5 FM/1290 AM in Fayetteville), Sirius Channel 125, XM Channel 386 CBS Sports Network is widely available through all major cable, satellite and telco distributors. For distributors with national channel lineups please find CBS Sports Network as follows: DirecTV - 221, Dish Network - 158, Verizon FiOS - 94, AT&T U-Verse - 643. For all other providers, use the CBSSN channel finder to find your channel or check your local listings. CBS Sports Network is also available with OTT providers Hulu, YouTube TV, & fuboTV. You can authenticate via your provider and watch CBS Sports Network on http://www.cbssports.com/cbs-sports-network/ as well as on the CBS Sports App. Carter Blackburn (play-by-play) and Aaron Taylor (color commentary) will do the honors of broadcasting Arkansas/CSU on CBS Sports Network. John Schriffen will be the sideline reporter. Chuck Barrett will continue to do the play-by-play for Arkansas radio, entering his 24th season on the crew. Barrett will be joined by color analyst and former Razorback quarterback Quinn Grovey for the second consecutive season. Another former Hog, Geno Bell, is also in his second year, manning the sideline after taking over after Grovey’s promotion. Morris (15-22) and Colorado State head coach Mike Bobo (21-20) meet for the first time as head coaches. The two coached against each other back during their stunts as offensive coordinators at Clemson and Georgia, respectively. Morris enters his fourth season as a collegiate head coach and his first at Arkansas. The former Texas high school coaching legend made stops as an offensive coordinator at Tulsa and Clemson before landing the SMU head coaching gig in 2015. This offseason, Morris brought along offensive coordinator Joe Craddock from their previous institution. At SMU, Craddock was the youngest hired OC in the country. On defense, SEC legend John Chavis joins the fray in his 30 season in the conference. Arkansas is currently at least a 13-point favorite depending on what betting site is looked at. Morris and his Hogs look to win his first road test at Arkansas. PREDICTIONS | Arkansas -13.5 Trey Biddy: 42-28, Arkansas | 1-0 Overall, 1-0 vs. Spread Danny West: 42-27, Arkansas | 1-0 Overall, 0-1 vs. Spread Tyler Davis: 38-27, Arkansas | 1-0 Overall, 1-0 vs. Spread Alec Harrison: 31-17, Arkansas | 1-0 Overall, 1-0 vs. Spread<doc-sep>Arkansas could offer up another round of fireworks on both sides of the ball when it visits Colorado State on Saturday. The Razorbacks (1-0) got off to a strong start with a 55-20 win over FCS foe Eastern Illinois in their season opener. They forced five turnovers, turning them into 24 points. Freshman LB Bumper Pool set the tone for the defense with six tackles, a fumble return, a pass breakup and a blocked extra point. The Rams (0-2) are searching for answers after surrendering 44.0 points and 606.5 yards per game in their first two contests. Colorado State has fallen behind quickly in both of those games and proved unable to get enough stops to mount a comeback. Colorado State has only two wins all time over current SEC teams. The Rams beat LSU in 1992 and knocked off Missouri in the 1997 Holiday Bowl. Arkansas has won all three previous meetings between the two schools. Arkansas at Colorado State Kickoff: Saturday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. ET TV: CBSSN Spread: Arkansas -12 Three Things to Watch 1. Storey's next chapter New Arkansas coach Chad Morris built his credentials on an up-tempo offense at SMU. It appears that Morris may have found a quarterback with the tools to run it for the Razorbacks. Ty Storey had a smashing debut after coming in for starter Cole Kelly. Storey threw for 261 yards and three touchdowns on 12-of-17 passing. His outing helped Arkansas survive a mediocre showing in the run game. The Razorbacks tallied just 80 yards on 37 carries on the ground, as Devwah Whaley, the starting running back, totaled only 28 yards on 10 attempts. Storey's learning curve should be an easy one if Arkansas can build on what it did defensively against Eastern Illinois. The Razorbacks forced five fumbles to break the game wide open before the end of the second quarter. It was the most in a single game for Arkansas since 1998. 2. Can the Rams' pass defense recover? In each of the team's first two games, Colorado State has been torched early and often by opposing quarterbacks. The end result is a defense that looks like one of the worst in the nation. Hawaii ripped Colorado State apart in the season opener, rolling up 617 yards against the Rams. Cole McDonald threw for 418 yards and three touchdowns in his debut as starting quarterback. McDonald led Hawaii on scoring drives on all but one of its first-half possessions. It didn't get much better last weekend against Colorado. The Rams were never competitive in the Rocky Mountain Showdown, as Buffs QB Steven Montez threw for 338 yards and four touchdowns. Montez matched Joel Klatt's school record of 12 straight completions to open a game and helped the Buffaloes roll up 596 total yards. 3. SEC in Colorado It isn't a normal occurrence for a Mountain West team to host an SEC opponent in football. SEC teams have played Mountain West teams on the road just three other times since the conference was formed in 1999. Colorado State was in the right place at the right time to get a home-and-home with Arkansas. The Razorbacks had an opening on their 2018 schedule after Michigan pulled out of a home-and-home series to resume its rivalry with Notre Dame. Colorado State had a $1.3 million guarantee game at Arkansas scheduled for 2019. The Rams offered to rework the contract and turn it into a straight home-and-home deal. Arkansas accepted and will play a Group of 5 team on the road for just the third time in the last 20 seasons. For Colorado State, this is the team's first home game against an SEC opponent since 1981, when Mississippi State came west and beat the Rams 37-27. It won't be the last one, either. The Rams have home games against Vanderbilt in 2021 and 2026 as part of a four-game series with the Commodores. Final Analysis Colorado State is reeling after two losses in which opposing offenses piled up points and yards at will. It doesn't look to get any better this week. Arkansas is rebuilding its offensive identity under Morris and may experience some bumps in that transition, but playing the Rams won't be one of them. The Razorbacks should have no trouble keeping the momentum going back to Fayetteville. Prediction: Arkansas 49, Colorado State 21 — Written by John Coon, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network. Coon has more than a decade of experience covering sports for different publications and outlets, including The Associated Press, Salt Lake Tribune, ESPN, Deseret News, MaxPreps, Yahoo! Sports and many others. Follow him on Twitter @johncoonsports.<doc-sep>
Arkansas was winning 27-9 with 6 minutes to go in the third quarter. TJ Hammonds just broke free on a shovel pass and did what he does. Arkansas got 4 yards the rest of the game and was outscored 25-0 in that stretch to lose 34-27. The huge momentum switch happened right at the start of the fourth quarter. Arkansas had a 4th and 1 right at midfield. With the score at 27-17, a conversion and a score would have likely iced the game. Arkansas was averaging over six yards per carry at the time and Devwah Whaley had a career high in rushing yards. Instead Chad Morris punted the ball and put his visibly tired defense (who for the first 3 quarters were much better than expected) back on the field. The Rams seized the momentum, took advantage of a wearing down defense. The Rams put up points in each of their last four drives to put themselves over the top. Things started slow for both offenses. Ty Storey started and went 5/13 with two interceptions. Kelley came in at halftime and ended up with 102 yards and 2 touchdowns. Arkansas outrushed the Rams 299 to 40, and led in the ground game 300 to 0 at one point. The offense inexplicably abandoned the run game at some of the most crucial times, and gave CSU the ball back, all while piling up the momentum. There were several moments, especially in the third quarter where the offense was looking good. The defense looked outstanding in the first half before eventually wearing down. That all washed away with horrendous game management and a fourth quarter that killed the game. Things only get harder coming up. North Texas is slinging the ball around, then starts SEC. One thing is for sure in this game, things looked like building blocks were being laid. Then there was a sledgehammer taken to all of those blocks and now the climb uphill gets even tougher.