Its AR-Kansaw....Got it?

The Louisiana State University Tigers should have learned a lesson this weekend. Don't play with blasting caps.

Prior to the holiday weekend, LSU was ranked number one in the nation and on course for a berth in the BCS national championship game. Today they are on course for a berth on their couch watching someone like Missouri do what they couldn't. What the hell happened?

What the hell happened was Arkansas (pronounced AR-Kansaw)....the real question is how. Arkansas is a team that has underperformed all season against one of the weakest schedules in the SEC. Arkansas had not won at Baton Rouge during the Houston Nutt era. Arkansas has not beaten LSU anywhere in several years. Arkansas is a team with one-dimensional offense and an eight-dimensional soap opera. The odds of Arkansas knocking off LSU were microscopic.

But there is a reason they play the games. Every team in the country has something special about them. It may be the number of 5-star recruits they get like LSU, it may be history like Grambling, it may be perseverance through utter futility like Duke. LSU was apparently unaware of what makes Arkansas special.

What makes Arkansas special is, that it tends to perform in direct proportion to the arrogance of its opponent.

This is a lesson Texas has never learned. Texans view the Arkansas game as just another game against an inferior opponent. Many times in the past they have been shocked....shocked....at the intensity of the emotion from the other side. Their ho-hum game is the game of the century from their opponent. The fact is that Texas has a rivalry and doesn't know it, or doesn't care to know it. As far as they are concerned Arkansas is another nobody not even in the same class as them. Another Baylor or Houston. This is probably true technically.....but if Texas is not on its guard.....they pay for that attitude in the game.

LSU is getting the same lesson. For the last week they treated the Arkansas game as an automatic win. Their attitude has been that "The Golden Boot" is a contrivance that does not symbolize a real rivalry. That Arkansas is not in the same class with them and is just another Western Division nobody like Ole Miss and Mississippi State. That Arkansas is a state that is so unimportant that you don't even have to bother learning how to pronounce its name.

Arrogance. You played into our hands Tigers. You waved the red cape in the face of an Arkansas Razorback team, and no matter how bad they are, thats not smart. Feeding arrogance to Arkansas is like feeding spinach to Popeye.

After the game more than one Arkansas player was shouting...."It's AR-kansaw". THAT is why and how Arkansas won that game....when they should not have.

If LSU is smart, they will realize that they now have an honest to God SEC rivalry. Little Old Arkansas just screwed LSU's shot at a National Championship. We play at the end of the SEC season each year and we will screw your National Championship shot again if you are not careful.....and like it. So you better be careful.

My advice is, don't overlook Arkansas, don't diminish Arkansas even if they are 2-8, learn to say "Nice Piggie", and for God's sake learn how to pronounce our name.

This is a lesson Texas has been singularly incapable of learning for about 80 years and from time to time they pay for it.