For decades, trips to Starkville have subjected SEC baseball and football fans to one of the most obnoxious sounds in college sports: the clanging cowbells of Mississippi State.
With the elimination of divisions last year, the Arkansas baseball team has managed to avoid that particular hell since 2023. Over the past couple of weeks, though, the No. 5 Razorbacks (12-5) have had to deal with bells of another sort.
Many fans are sounding the alarm after seeing Dave Van Horn’s squad lose its most games before the start of SEC play in six years.
In 2020, Arkansas was sitting at 11-5 and about to hit the road to face those cowbells when the world shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.