Tickets For Season Opener On Sale At War Memorial Stadium

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas will be part of the first Thursday night of the 2017 college football season when it hosts Florida A&M in Little Rock on Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. CT.

Individual tickets for the season opener are available for $35 and may now be purchased in Central Arkansas at the War Memorial Stadium ticket office, in addition to online or over the phone at 1-800-982-HOGS (4647).

The War Memorial Stadium ticket office is located on the north side of the stadium (between gates 9 and 10) and is open from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets may be purchased at War Memorial Stadium using Visa, MasterCard and Discover. Fans may also use American Express for orders online or over the phone.

The game will be the first-ever meeting between Arkansas and Florida A&M and the first time since 2009 that the Razorbacks will open the season at War Memorial Stadium. It marks the first time since 2001 when the Razorbacks defeated UNLV that Arkansas will open the season on a Thursday night. It will also be the program’s first Thursday night game since 2003 when Arkansas took down South Carolina, 28-6. Both of those games were also played at War Memorial Stadium.

Arkansas’ offense will be led by a pair of seniors in quarterback Austin Allen and center Frank Ragnow. Tasked with taking the reins as the Razorbacks’ top signal-caller in 2016, Allen immediately made his mark by leading the SEC with 3,430 passing yards, including a league-best 2,291 in conference play. Behind nine multi-touchdown pass games, he totaled 25 touchdown passes to rank second in the conference. Ragnow, who enters 2017 as a preseason All-American and candidate for multiple national awards, was named the nation’s best offensive lineman, best run blocker and a first-team All-American by Pro Football Focus (PFF) last season. He also helped pave the way for regular-season rushing champion Rawleigh Williams III.

Paul Rhoads will be in charge of the Razorbacks’ new-look 3-4 defense. The 2017 campaign will mark Rhoads’ third stint as a defensive coordinator and second in the SEC. Prior to joining head coach Bret Bielema’s staff last February as defensive backs coach, Rhoads spent 16 years as either a head coach or defensive coordinator at Iowa State, Pittsburgh and Auburn, including the previous seven seasons (2009-15) as Iowa State’s head coach. Over his nine combined seasons as a defensive coordinator at Auburn (2008) and Pittsburgh (2000-07), Rhoads’ units ranked in the top 30 nationally in scoring defense six times and the top 12 for fewest yards three times.

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