Good morning. We’ve made it halfway through 2023! Arkansas has been blessed with track and field championships, Sweet 16 memories, and 79 student athletes made the spring SEC academic honor roll. Congrats to all the Razorbacks who succeeded on and off the field, and let’s roll into the second half of the year in style.

Raise The Roof: The largest outdoor sports bar in college football is coming to Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in the fall of 2023. Big Red’s Rooftop, located on the North End Zone Deck, will offer fans the live excitement of a Razorback Football game day within a dynamic social environment. Check out the latest renderings here.

Now, what else did we mix into today’s Brew?

🎥 Hogtied the Vols
⚾️ Hagen Smith’s All-American sweep
🐗 And so much more!

🎥 ROCKY TOPPED

How sweep it is! In one of the most anticipated series in recent memory, the Hogs swept Tennessee in dominant fashion. Get an inside look at all the big moments leading up to and during this electric home series from this past season. Hear from Coach Nate Thompson, Hunter Hollan, Hagen Smith, Gage Wood, Jace Bohrofen, Tavian Josenberger, and more. Relive the sweep like never before in this action packed episode of The Follow.

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Raise Your Cup. For the third-consecutive year, Arkansas secured a top-15 national finish in the Learfield Directors’ Cup Standings. Arkansas finished No. 13 with 1,031.5 points and ranked first among programs with 19 sports or fewer.

The Razorbacks tallied two NCAA championships, recorded 11 top-10 national finishes and won five Southeastern Conference championships in the 2022-23 athletics season. In addition, Arkansas won a bowl game for the second-straight season, advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament for the third-consecutive year and won its first NCAA Volleyball Tournament match in 18 years.

Arkansas was one of eight Southeastern Conference programs in the top 25 of the final standings.

🔺 America’s Finest. It’s an All-American sweep for Arkansas pitcher Hagen Smith, as the southpaw has now been named an All-American by all seven major selectors after receiving second-team recognition from D1Baseball. Hagen recently earned a spot on the 31-man Collegiate National Team roster that will represent Team USA in a pair of five-game series against Chinese Taipei and Japan starting today. He is the 22nd Razorback since 1979 to play for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team.

🔺 Going The Distance. Razorback track and field has officially added distance runner Kirami Yego as a transfer from South Alabama. and will join the Razorbacks for the 2023-24 season. Kirami, a native of Kenya, earned a cross country All-America honor in 2022 and collected 11 Sun Belt titles during his time with the Jaguars. Most recently, he placed 11th in the NCAA 10,000m a few weeks ago. During the outdoor season he established career best times in four consecutive races.

🔺 Hometown Hero. We’re now 64 days from the start of Arkansas’ football season. Fayetteville’s own Brandon Allen etched himself into the record books eight years ago when he wrapped up his Razorback career with 64 career touchdown passes, becoming the program’s all-time leader. Allen is now entering his eighth year in the NFL, and his first with the San Francisco 49ers.

🔺 HE LIFTS WEIGHTS. This week, we’re counting down KJ Jefferson’s top 5 plays from the 2022 season. The No. 1 play should be no surprise to any Arkansas fan.

Late in the second quarter against BYU, QB1 escaped not one, not two, but three would-be sackers in the pocket before escaping and finding tight end Trey Knox down the right sideline. And thus, KJ’s viral sideline moment was born.

Check out the play and the full top 5 list, courtesy of Clay Henry, on HogsPlus.com.

🏙️ STEPS FROM DOWNTOWN

Stay in an oasis in the Ozarks. If you book your stay with our friends at Graduate Fayetteville, you’ll be happily at home in Razorback country. Camp out on the generous lobby sofa or hit up our neighborhood watering hole Trophy Room—the perfect spot for pre and post-game provisions.

Upgrade your summer or get a head start on those road trips in the fall with Graduate Fayetteville.

🎧 THE RAZORBACK DAILY

Quite the view. Q and Z look ahead to the year to come and the things we’re most excited about when it comes to Arkansas athletics. And there’s a new rooftop bar coming to the top of Razorback Stadium. We’ve got all the details.

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Friday, August 17:

⚽️ Soccer season-opener vs. Arkansas State

Friday, August 25:

🏐 Volleyball season-opener vs. Michigan State

Saturday, September 2:

🏈 Football season-opener vs. Western Carolina

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