<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=36mbfn_0vnTLJle00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=36mbfn_0vnTLJle00" width="1182" height="619" ><a href="https://247sports.com/college/arkansas/">Arkansas</a> got off to another promising start, but mistakes and Texas A&amp;M's talent once again proved too much for the Razorbacks as they fell to the Aggies, 21-17, on Saturday afternoon in front of 60,928 inside AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington (<a href="https://247sports.com/college/texas/">Texas</a>).With 1:30 remaining and the Razorbacks (3-2, 1-1) down 21-17 with a chance to win, <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/nic-scourton-46102488/">Nic Scourton</a> strip-sacked <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/taylen-green-46051276/">Taylen Green</a> at the Arkansas 28 and <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/jaydon-hill-46042612/">Jaydon Hill</a> recovered. A pair of post-play personal fouls backed up the Aggies (4-1, 2-0) to their own 42, but A&amp;M picked up a first down and ran out the clock to take the final Southwest Classic in Jerry World. With the win, Texas A&amp;M moved to 12-1 against the Hogs in the last 13 meetings.Green's final sack was the third of the day for Texas A&amp;M, but the Aggies also recorded 10 tackles for loss and 8 more quarterback hurries. The Razorbacks out-gained the Aggies 379-297, but committed 10 penalties for 75 yards, went 5 of 15 on third down, and 2 for 3 on fourth down, which included a head-scratching fake field goal out of a timeout in the third quarter."Congratulations to A&amp;M, I thought their defense was extremely physical," Arkansas head coach <a href="https://247sports.com/coach/Sam-Pittman-477">Sam Pittman</a> said. "We knew it going in, we thought that was the best part of their football team, and they certainly showed it tonight. I thought our kids played extremely hard. Had too many penalties in the second half that came back and haunted us."Took the lead there in the fourth and they ended up going down the field and scoring on us. We helped them with penalties, which you can't do. Disappointing to lose tonight because I certainly felt like we had our chances to win and felt like that the entire game. But we never could get anything consistently going offensively. It was off something big or a fake punt or whatever, but it was not a lot of consistency there. Couldn't protect again, kind of the same old story this week. Texas A&amp;M did a good job and congratulations to them."Green finished 23 of 41 with 279 passing yards and a touchdown against one interception while rushing 13 times for a net of 6 yards. <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/jaquinden-jackson-87600/">Ja'Quinden Jackson</a> was held to 10 carries for 37 yards and a touchdown along, and Andrew Armstrong again turned in a strong performance with 6 catches for 72 yards. <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/isaac-teslaa-46083940/">Isaac TeSlaa</a> had a surprising showing with five catches for 120 yards and a game-opening 75-yard touchdown.The Aggies won the toss and deferred to the second half to start the game, and Arkansas needed just three plays to go up 7-0 after a 75-yard bomb from Green to Isaac TeSlaa just a minute and 18 seconds into the game. The Hogs were backed up to third and long when Green avoided multiple would-be sacks and stepped up into the pocket to find TeSlaa streaking away from the Aggies. <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/kyle-ramsey-46058164/">Kyle Ramsey</a> made the extra point for Arkansas.The two teams traded punts on the next two drives before A&amp;M answered with a 58-yard touchdown strike from Reed to <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/noah-thomas-46137273/">Noah Thomas</a>, his fifth score of the season, at the 10:28 mark of the first quarter. <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/keeyon-stewart-46052810/">Kee'Yon Stewart</a> missed a tackle that allowed Thomas to escape down the sideline and tie the game, 7-7, following Randy Bond's extra point attempt.Both teams scored their first touchdowns on 3-play drives lasting less than 66 seconds.Texas A&amp;M's defensive front controlled Arkansas' offensive line to start the Hogs' third drive, too, with Green taking multiple hits in the backfield before the Razorbacks set up to punt from his own 46. However, <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/devin-bale-46143215/">Devin Bale</a> faked the punt and ran up the middle for 25 yards to the Aggies' 29. After a rush and a reception by Sategna, Jackson made it a 14-7 game with 4:50 left in the opening quarter when he bounced to the left side and scored from 8 yards out.Arkansas' scoring drive covered 75 yards in 10 plays and took 5:38 off the clock. The two teams again traded punts with just under 10 minutes left in the second quarter, and Arkansas started its second straight drive inside its own 10. Things went from bad to worse for the Razorback on the first play of the drive when Jackson fumbled an exchange from Green due to <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/shemar-stewart-46080267/">Shemar Stewart</a> wrecking the backfield unblocked. The Aggies took over at the 10 and immediately cut the distance in half with a 5-yard run from Moss, and Reed followed with a touchdown run on the next play to eventually tie the game at 14-14.Arkansas had a chance to regain the lead with its final possession before half, but Green was intercepted by <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/dezz-ricks-46103455/">Dezz Ricks</a> at the A&amp;M 34 and the Aggies ran out the remaining clock to keep it tied at the break.The Razorbacks held the Aggies to just 46 yards in the first half, but there was a sense that A&amp;M had finally found its elite pass rush while the SEC's leading rusher, Jackson, was held to just 12 yards on five carries. Arkansas also committed three penalties for 15 yards to just one for 5 yards by A&amp;M, and the Aggies won the field position battle as the Hogs started three drives inside their own 10 yard line.Texas A&amp;M got it to start the third quarter and quickly benefitted from a late hit by <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/nico-davillier-46102554/">Nico Davillier</a> on the first play, but Arkansas' defense went three-and-out from there and got the ball back.Green gained 24 yards on a third-and-2 keeper down to the Aggies 35 on the ensuing possession, but the Razorbacks stalled at the 32 and faced a decision to either punt, kick, or go for it. The Hogs strangely wasted a timeout only to run a fake field goal that was stuffed, and A&amp;M took over.For the second straight week, Kyle Ramsey drilled a huge fourth-quarter field goal – this one from 45 yards – to give the Razorbacks a 17-14 lead with 13:24 remaining. Ramsey's kick capped a 10-play, 58-yard drive that lasted 4:12 for Arkansas. As usual in AT&amp;T Stadium, the Aggies came right back.Moss reeled off a 23-yard gain to Arkansas' 28, followed with 8 more, then added a physical 15-yard run to the 5. From there, Reed faked to <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/amari-daniels-46041201/">Amari Daniels</a> and found a wide-open <a href="https://247sports.com/Coach/tre-watson-4509/">Tre Watson</a> on a 5-yard touchdown strike in the left near corner to put the Aggies back up with 9 minutes left, 21-17. The Razorbacks suffered another 5-yard penalty to start the ensuing possession thanks to an illegal motion on Sategna. Arkansas eventually stalled out at the A&amp;M 43 and faced another fourth-and-long decision, this time electing to punt and pin. Bale came up huge again with a perfect boot that landed at the 1 yard line and kicked hard right out of bounds with 5:35 to play.It wouldn't matter, however, as the Aggies started with a 10-yard completion, a 5-yard offsides by the Hogs, a gain of 30 by Moss, and a free 15 yards on top of the run due to a facemask by TJ Metcalf. The Razorbacks eventually came up with another key defensive stop and forced a punt with 2:50 remaining.Arkansas took over at its own 10 yard line with just under 3 minutes to play and immediately faced a key third and 5 from their own 15. Sategna picked up 4 to set up a fourth and inches at the 19, which Green converted with a sneak to keep the drive alive.With 1:30 left, Scourton got around <a href="https://247sports.com/Player/fernando-carmona-46102218/">Fernando Carmona</a> for what would become a game-winning sack. Despite backing up 30 yards with penalties, the Aggies picked up a first down and drained the rest of the clock.</div></body>

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Arkansas got off to another promising start, but mistakes and Texas A&M's talent once again proved too much for the Razorbacks as they fell to the Aggies, 21-17, on Saturday afternoon in front of 60,928 inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington (Texas). With 1:30 remaining and the Razorbacks (3-2, 1-1) down...

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