Arkansas 31, Mississippi State 28
When: 4:00 PM ET, Saturday, November 6, 2021
Where: Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Temperature:
62°
Head Official:
Jason Autrey
Attendance:
68818
By Field Level Media
Dominique Johnson rushed for 107 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winning 4-yarder with 21 seconds remaining, as host Arkansas defeated No. 17 Mississippi State 31-28 in a Southeastern Conference game Saturday.
KJ Jefferson, who passed for 191 yards and a touchdown, drove the Razorbacks (6-3, 2-3 SEC) 75 yards in 10 plays for the winning score after Will Rogers' fourth touchdown pass of the game had given the Bulldogs (5-4, 3-3) the lead with 2:22 remaining.
Rogers, who completed 36 of 48 passes for 417 yards, drove Mississippi State into position for a tying field goal, but Nolan McCord, replacing Brandon Ruiz after Ruiz had missed both of his field-goal attempts, was wide left from 40 yards as time expired.
Mississippi State, which didn't score until getting a touchdown on its final possession of the first half, made it two TD drives in a row after receiving the second-half kickoff.
Rogers threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Rara Thomas to give the Bulldogs their first lead, 14-13.
Cam Little made a career-long field goal for the second time in the game when he hit a 51-yarder to give the Razorbacks a 16-14 lead at the end of the third quarter.
Jefferson threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Treylon Burks to increase the lead to 23-14 early in the fourth quarter. But the Bulldogs answered on the ensuing possession as Rogers and Thomas teamed on a 37-yard touchdown pass with 11:41 remaining.
Little's first career-long field goal came on a 46-yarder, and Johnson ran 1 yard for a touchdown to give the Razorbacks a 10-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.
The Bulldogs had an opportunity to score when they drove to the Arkansas 5, but they stalled and Ruiz missed a 23-yard field goal.
Little added a 48-yard field goal before Mississippi State finally scored on Rogers' 3-yard touchdown pass to Jaden Walley with seven seconds left in the second quarter. That cut the Arkansas lead to 13-7 at halftime.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Receiving
| Mississippi State |
|
Arkansas |
|
Makai Polk
|
Player |
Treylon Burks |
|
8 |
Receptions |
5 |
|
117 |
Yards |
63 |
|
14.6 |
Avg Yards |
12.6 |
|
0 |
Touchdowns |
1 |
|
0 |
Long |
0 |
Team Stats Summary
| |
Yards |
Scoring |
Defense |
| Team |
Tot |
Rus |
Pas |
TD |
FG |
INT |
Sck |
FF |
| Mississippi State
|
486 |
69 |
417 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
3.0 |
0 |
| Arkansas
|
393 |
202 |
191 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
3.0 |
0 |
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