With 15 returning starters from a team that finished 11-2 and ranked fifth in the nation in 2011, this season was supposed to be the year that Arkansas finally broke through in the notoriously tough SEC West.  

After all, the only teams to defeat the Hogs last season were division foes Alabama and LSU—the two teams that squared off in New Orleans for the national championship—and both the Crimson Tide and the Tigers will visit Fayetteville this fall.  

However, all of those dreams took a massive hit with the firing of head coach Bleacher Report - College Football
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