Arkansas will play a home-and-home series against Utah in football starting on Sept. 12, 2026. The Hogs will travel to Salt Lake City in 2026 then will host the Utes at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville on Sept. 16, 2028.

The last time Arkansas played a team from the Pac-12 Conference was in 2006. They took a beating from USC, losing the game 50-14 in Fayetteville. The Razorbacks have a 4-6-1 all-time record against current members of the Pac-12.

"I think you've definitely got to have, definitely, some opportunities on your schedule to create some key matchups early in the year," Arkansas head coach Chad Morris said earlier this year. "It's to protect the integrity of the league. You get your program built and right, and the non-conference schedule has got to be competitive and get it to that point. We're in an early, early phase of our program, so we're in a rebuild in trying to get our program, which is moving in the right direction. Hope to see it as we continue to build our program. Again, as you look at it we've scheduled all the way out to 2028, so a lot of these teams have been scheduled for a long, long time."

Last year, the Utes finished the season 9-5 and had a shot at the Pac-12 Championship. They lost the championship game by a score of 10-3 in a defensive battle with Washington. They turned around and lost to Northwestern on New Year’s Eve in the Holiday Bowl, 31-20. The Utes are coached by Kyle Whittingham, who took over head coaching duties when Urban Meyer left for Florida in 2004. He has the most wins among active coaches in the Pac-12.

The Hogs went 2-10 last season under Morris in his first year with the program. They made improvements in the spring and are hoping for a better season after grabbing the 23rd ranked recruiting class in 2019 according to 247Sports.com. The Razorbacks kick off their season on Aug. 31 at home against the Portland State Vikings.

The Southeastern Conference requires teams to play at least one other Power 5 foe among their four non-conference opponents, and that includes major independents like BYU and Notre Dame. The Razorbacks will actually face BYU in 2022 in Provo (Utah) with the Cougars returning the following year. The Hogs head to South Bend (Ind.) to face Notre Dame in 2020 with the Fighting Irish set to play in Fayetteville on Oct. 4, 2025.

The last known non-conference opponent set to play Arkansas before the Utah and Memphis series were announced this year was Oklahoma State on Sept. 11, 2027. The Hogs and Cowboys will be completing a home-and-home series that starts in Week 2 of 2024, Sept. 7. In 2021, Texas will return to Fayetteville for a game that kept getting rescheduled after the Razorbacks and Longhorns last matched up in the regular season in 2008 when Colt McCoy and the Longhorns throttled the Hogs 52-10. Arkansas got its revenge with a 31-7 beating of the Longhorns in the Texas Bowl back in 2014.