After every game, the LSU football team implements a 48-hour rule. Players have two days to reflect on their previous game, win or lose, before they are required to put it behind them and shift their focus to their next opponent.
Many players suffered the most gut-wrenching loss of their careers in last Saturday’s 20-13 overtime loss to No. 4 Alabama. 
That rule was harder to follow this week. 
“I couldn’t sleep after the game,” said LSU sophomore defensive back Tre’Davious White. “I didn’t sleep until 3 a.m., and I woke up at 6 a.m. thinking about it. It was a sick feeling, man.”
One week after the emotional defeat, No. 20 LSU (7-3, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) will go into a hostile environment in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for a game seemingly set up for it to fail. 
To rebound, the Tigers will have to put it behind them and focus on their upcoming contest against a pesky Arkansas squad.
“It’s an immediate bounce back,” said senior center Elliott Porter. “We have a game on Saturday … It was a tough pill to swallow, but we have to swallow it.”
While LSU tries to recover from one of its most physically and emotionally taxing games of the season, Arkansas (4-5, 0-5 SEC) is coming off a bye week and searching for its first conference win since head coach Bret Bielema took the helm last season.
But it’s no cupcake. 
After going 4-0 in nonconference play, all five of the Razorbacks’ conference games have been against opponents in the top 10. While they failed to win any of them, they gave most of them a scare. 
Arkansas’ résumé includes an overtime loss to then-No. 6 Texas A&M, a one-point loss to No. 4 Alabama and, most recently, a one-touchdown loss to No. 1 Mississippi State in which the Bulldogs needed a last-minute interception in the end zone to finally put the game away. 
And the Razorbacks would love nothing more than to get that elusive win in the Battle for the Golden Boot. 
“They’re definitely a hungry team,” said LSU junior cornerback Jalen Collins. “They’ve had some pretty close games this year, and I wouldn’t expect anything different for this game.”
In addition to an Arkansas team yearning for a win, the Tigers will have to combat unfamiliar weather conditions. As of Thursday afternoon, weather.com projected a high temperature of 38 degrees and a low of 26 degrees with 12 mph winds and a 30 percent chance of snow.
Most of LSU’s roster lacks experience playing in cold weather. It took special precautions to prepare for the harsh conditions, including practicing with wet balls, playing in cold-weather equipment and dropping the temperature of its indoor practice facility.
Senior running back Terrence Magee said the Tigers will be prepared for anything and everything come Saturday. 
“We’re a weather-proof team,” Magee said. “We call it ‘LSU weather.’ No matter where we go, we’re going to have LSU weather. We have some accommodations that will help us for the cold weather as far as our uniform, but it’s going to be the same style of football we played last Saturday.”
In terms of style, Saturday’s contest should play out in classic SEC fashion. Both teams have relied heavily on their running game this season while trying to develop young quarterbacks. 
LSU and Arkansas have run the ball a combined 883 times for 4,448 yards while going to the air just 481 times for 3,603 yards. 
Arkansas has two running backs closing in on 1,000 yards for the season in junior Jonathan Williams, who has accumulated 877 yards, and sophomore Alex Collins, who has 840 yards. 
“We want to knock their heads back and make sure they know we came to play,” said sophomore defensive tackle Christian LaCouture. “When we have an opportunity to make a play, we have to make sure we give 110 percent and attack the line of scrimmage.” 
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