Sam Pittman discusses Arkansas players who transferred from LSU

LSU and Arkansas are set to clash in the Bayou of Baton Rouge in a Week 4 matchup between two of the top teams in the SEC West. This trip down to Louisiana will be a homecoming of sorts for a handful of players on the Razorbacks roster.

Sam Pittman has two former Tigers on his roster: defensive lineman Landon Jackson and defensive back Dwight McGlothern. As their showdown with LSU rapidly approaches, Pittman revealed if he has had any discussions with the former Tigers ahead of their trip to Baton Rouge, LA.

No, we haven’t. McGlothern, he talks a little bit more than Landon. Landon doesn’t say anything hardly,” said Pittman. “But I think that they are excited to get back. Anytime you leave a team, you want to play well against that team. Not necessarily that you didn’t like the team or anything like that; you just want to perform well. And I’m sure they want to play well and those things.”

Both Jackson and McGlothern will need to have nerves of steel as they will enter Tiger Stadium as visitors. The former Tigers and the rest of the Arkansas roster must maintain their composure and not lose focus if they want to upset the No. 12 team in the country on their home field Saturday night.

Picking LSU vs. Arkansas

The No. 12 Tigers (2-1, 1-0 SEC) are coming off of a 41-14 throttling of Mississippi State and currently sit as a 17.5-point favorite over the Razorbacks, according to FanDuel.

That is certainly a steep number to reach, but Kayce Smith of Barstool Sports believes LSU has what it takes to cover. Speaking with On3‘s Andy Staples, she based her prediction on not only the dominant performance from the Tigers, but how out of sorts Arkansas looked as it lost 38-31 to BYU in Week 3.

“Last week, I talked myself into Arkansas -8 against BYU,” she said. “I said ‘Arkansas took care of business against BYU last year. KJ Jefferson is supposed to have taken the next step. I think that sometimes we don’t give Sam Pittman enough credit for kind of digging Arkansas out of that gross pit that they were in.’ And they proved me wrong. So I’m not taking Arkansas any more.

“I did take LSU against Mississippi State and I did feel very confident about that. Not because of Mississippi State, but because I thought that LSU was gonna figure out what the hell went wrong. You want to talk about transitive properties on the field, I’m doing it with my betting. Because Arkansas made me mad last week and played horribly against BYU and LSU took care of business, I’m taking the -17.5.”

If LSU is able win by more than the 17.5-point prediction from Vegas, it would go against the recent trend for this game. Four of the past five contests have been decided by a touchdown or less, and each of the past three were won by only a field goal. Interestingly enough, the away team has won all three of those times.