FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The No. 20 LSU football team struggled to move the ball and could not convert on the few scoring chances it earned, as Arkansas chipped away at the Tigers’ defense for a decisive 17-0 victory Saturday night in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. 
The Razorbacks (5-5, 1-5 Southeastern Conference) earned its first conference win since head coach Bret Bielema took the helm last season and took the Golden Boot away from the Tigers (7-4, 3-4 SEC) for the first time since 2010. 
Arkansas out-gained LSU in total offense 264 yards to 123, as the Tigers struggled to move the ball from the start.
LSU finished the first quarter with negative one yard of total offense, primarily due to an errant snap that cost them 27 yards on their first drive. 
“When we started the game, I would have liked to move the football better,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “We lost a couple offensive starters and that miscues too.”
Meanwhile Arkansas struck early with a 60-yard drive ending in a field goal to start the game and take an early 3-0 lead. 
While the Tigers’ offense continued to stagnate, the Razorbacks struck again in the second quarter with a methodical drive lasting nearly seven minutes ending with a one-yard touchdown run by junior Arkansas running back Jonathan Williams. The score extended LSU’s deficit to 10 points.
LSU found some rhythm in its sole drive of the second quarter, driving the ball 55 yards on 15 plays and chewing 6:59 off the clock.
But the Tigers were unable to cut into Arkansas’ lead as LSU sophomore kicker Colby Delahoussaye missed a 27-yard field goal attempt wide right.
Delahoussaye missed another chance to bring LSU within a possession in the third quarter when his 47-yard attempt landed well short in the middle of the end zone. 

“I talked to him after the first field goal,” Miles said. “He said he toed it and said ‘I’ll fix it’. I didn’t talk to him after the second miss. It should have been a good kick.” 
Arkansas stretched its lead by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter when Razorback’s sophomore Alex Collins ran it in from five yards out for the final score the game. 
Williams and Collins combined for 101 yards and both of Arkansas’ touchdowns on 34 carries. 
The Tigers miss yet another opportunity to score in the fourth quarter when sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings led them 56 yards down the field deep in Arkansas territory. But the drive ended prematurely when Jennings fumbled the ball, and the Razorbacks recovered it at their own 19 yard line.  
“It’s very frustrating,” Jennings said. “We need those points on those drives. We sustained long drives. We need to begin to finish. We got down there two or three times. We need to finish those drives.”
Jennings finished the contest completing 12 of his 22 pass attempts for 87 yards. 
The Razorback’s held LSU to 36 yards on 32 carries on the ground. The Tigers were without junior starting offensive guard Vadal Alexander, who missed the game with a hand injury, and senior center Elliott Porter due to an ankle injury.

“We had to go with some guys who were a little inexperienced, but we felt comfortable putting them in the game,” said LSU senior running back Terrence Magee. “But we just have to better job up front, have to do a better job moving the ball and executing on passing plays.”