isaan.live — Malachi Singleton racked up on an 11-yard run with 1:17 remaining to raise Arkansas to a 19-14 win over No. 4 Tennessee on Saturday evening.
The Razorbacks (4-2, 2-1 SEC) conquered a 14-3 third-quarter shortage to scratch their first win over an AP top-5 group since 2007 versus No. 1 LSU. They had shed 18 straight versus such groups going into Saturday.
It was also their first home win over a top-5 challenger since beating the No. 3 Volunteers in 1999. Singleton, the back-up to beginning quarterback Taylen Green, led the game-winning own after the Boise Specify move left the video game with an injury.
“Our kids, our trainers did a fantastic job of preparing our men and production them think that we can go win tonight,” Arkansas trainer Sam Pittman said. “These men are happy; they’re not surprised. If we have the same quantity of turnovers, we can have fun with anyone.
“You enter into training for minutes such as what simply happened, and it is to see the kids and the smiles on their face and the effort that they do, because there is a great deal of groups that can’t reach that feeling. We did tonight.”
Together with No. 1 Alabama’s loss at Vanderbilt previously in the day, it marked the very first time 2 top-5 groups from the same conference shed on the same regular-season weekend break since Oct. 6, 2012, when No. 4 LSU and No. 5 Georgia were ruined. It was also the very first time 2 top-5 groups were beat by unranked challengers since No. 4 Miami and No. 5 Florida Specify shed Oct. 30, 2004.
Singleton finished 2 of 3 passes for 31 lawns and ran 4 times for 12 lawns and the go-ahead touchdown. Ja’Quinden Jackson included 57 lawns hurrying and a touchdown on 20 brings, and Andrew Armstrong led Arkansas with 9 functions for 132 lawns.
“The last 2 owns, he was incredible,” Pittman said of Singleton, a redshirt freshman. “He ran [the offense] very, very well and racked up the touchdown to go on. He’s been here a very long time and hasn’t already obtained to play. To enter there and score the winning touchdown — with the help of 10 various other men — needs to be truly satisfying for him.”
Following Singleton’s score, Nico Iamaleava led Tennessee (4-1, 1-1) down the area to the Razorbacks’ 20, but he was pressed from bounds on fourth-and-5 at the 16 as time expired. Arkansas followers instantly stormed the area.
Dylan Sampson racked up 2 third-quarter touchdowns hurrying in a 4:14 span to give the Volunteers a 14-3 lead, relatively turning the trend of the video game. But Arkansas, before the sixth-largest group in its stadium’s background, racked up the game’s last 16 factors and hung on late with another protective quit.
“When minutes such as this occur, the outside world’s mosting likely to have a narrative for you. We discuss it when it is going great, and tonight it didn’t go great,” Tennessee trainer Josh Heupel said. “You’ve reached appearance your colleagues in the eye. Those are the viewpoints that issue.
“You’ve reached proceed to draw the rope harder. We’ve reached proceed to expand. Great groups improve throughout the course of the year. [We] still have a possibility to be a great football group.”
Green finished 19 of 27 passes for 266 lawns before leaving the video game.
Iamaleava was 16-for-28 passing for 156 lawns, and Sampson competed a game-high 140 lawns on 22 brings.