The betting line is out for this weekend's matchup between Alabama and Arkansas, and the defending champions are a five-touchdown favorite over its sixth opponent of the season.

The Crimson Tide is considered a 35-point favorite over the Razorbacks, per VegasInsider.com.

No. 1-ranked Alabama’s Week 6 road game against Arkansas on Saturday, Oct. 6, will kick off at 11 a.m. CT and will air on ESPN, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday. It will be the first time since the 2007 season the Crimson Tide has played back-to-back 11 a.m. games when it faced Ole Miss on Oct. 13 and Tennessee on Oct. 20 in contests before noon CT.

“I love it,” running back Josh Jacobs said. “I love it just because of the fact that it makes me feel like when I first started. Little league, mighty mite, all of your games were early in the morning. You get them and then you actually have a weekend, you finally get a weekend. That’s the biggest thing. I get a break. I can lay down and recover and everything. That’s the best thing.”

The Razorbacks have posted a 1-4 (0-2 SEC) record to begin their season, recently losing to Texas A&M by a score of 24-17 this past weekend. Arkansas has dropped four games in a row after opening its 2018 football season with a 55-20 win over Eastern Illinois.

Alabama and Arkansas will meet for the 29th time in series history in two weeks. The Crimson Tide owns the all-time advantage 18-8 (after vacations), has defeated the Hogs 11 straight times and won the most recent meeting between the two, 41-9, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

This year’s game will be played in Fayetteville, Ark., at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

Arkansas ended its 2017 season with a 4-8 (1-7 SEC) record and parted ways with head coach Bret Bielema. This offseason, it hired former Clemson offensive coordinator and SMU head coach Chad Morris to take over the Razorbacks’ football program, which returned 16 starters (9 offense, 7 defense) in 2018. So far, it hasn’t been an ideal start in the SEC for Morris.

“I think the biggest challenge that we're facing right now is being able to handle both success and adversity as it comes,” Morris said earlier this season on the SEC teleconference. “Just to understand the game is a long game. You have to play the entire game out. … No matter what happens, you have to play all the way through. … Everybody's going to have their opinion.

“My focus is on what we can do with this football team to get better...We just have to work on getting better every day.”

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