FAYETTEVILLE -- Bret Bielema said his biggest takeaway from the Razorbacks' 45-24 loss to Texas A&M last week was what happened after the jolting chain of events late in the third quarter.
With Arkansas poised to break a 17-17 tie at the end of a drive from its own 5-yard line, Texas A&M held the Hogs out of the end zone on four snaps inside the 2-yard line.
That marked the third time Arkansas had been at the Texas A&M 1, and the Razorbacks netted 3 points from those drives.
Two plays later, Texas A&M's Josh Reynolds caught a streak route down the right sideline a half-step ahead of cornerback DJ Dean and turned it into a 92-yard touchdown.
"We left two touchdowns on the field, two scoring opportunities on the field and couldn't convert it," Bielema said on Wednesday's SEC coaches teleconference. "They hit a big play and it kind of overwhelmed us for about five to six minutes, and we can't allow that to happen.
"It was still a very winnable game. We had some things go wrong but we have to learn from it."
No. 20 Arkansas (3-1, 0-1 SEC), the only team in the SEC West without a conference victory, has to regroup for Saturday's 11 a.m. game against Alcorn State before diving back into SEC play at home against No. 1 Alabama.
"The worst travesty that we can have happen is we didn't bring that defeat home with us, we try to leave it there in Dallas," Bielema said. "I told our guys we have to own it and embrace it as coaches and players, and hopefully it will reward us in the future."
Ten for 2
Arkansas junior Austin Allen is one of 10 quarterbacks in the FBS ranks to have two or more touchdown passes in all four games this season. Allen and Ole Miss quarterback Chad Kelly are the only two SEC players to accomplish the feat. Missouri quarterback Drew Lock is the SEC leader with 14 touchdown passes, but he had only one scoring pass in the Tigers' season-opening loss at West Virginia.
Long pass
Defensive backs coach Paul Rhoads said cornerback DJ Dean did a lot of things well on his coverage against Josh Reynolds, but he was beaten by a nearly perfect play on the Aggies' go-ahead 92-yard touchdown pass.
"It's the life of a corner, and when you're going to pressure corners you're going to get some of that," Rhoads said. "Technique in press coverage is all the way through. There's a portion of it that's at the line of scrimmage. There's the next piece of it that occurs after the release, and then there's the finish.
"And he was pretty good on a good bit of that. Trevor Knight threw a perfect pass and hit the guy in stride. Unfortunately, it came at an inopportune time for our football team."
Braves data
Alcorn State is playing a ranked FBS opponent for the second consecutive season after falling at No. 16 Georgia Tech 69-6 in last year's season opener.
The Braves' last victory over an FBS team came in a 52-10 rout of Louisiana-Lafayette on Sept. 13, 2014.
Alcorn's last game against an SEC team ended in a 51-7 loss to Mississippi State on Sept. 7, 2013.
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Arkansas will play Alcorn State, the two-time defending Southwestern Athletic Conference champion, for the first time. The Razorbacks have never faced a team from the SWAC.
Sports on 09/29/2016