Arkansas reporter says Memphis hotel without water, will remove guests

The weather at the Liberty Bowl does not seem too friendly at the moment. Arkansas and Kansas are scheduled to square off Wednesday, but Arkansas 247Sports reporter Trey Biddy detailed some gruesome conditions on-site.

“So just arrived in Memphis after driving all morning from Fayetteville and am being told they’re not checking anybody into the media hotel and are about to ask guests to leave because they don’t have any water,” Biddy wrote on Twitter. “Awesome. Whole downtown is out and front desk expects it to be days.”

What that means for the game itself or where each team is staying remains to be seen, but at the moment, it does not look good for the host site.

Over the last few days, there was a cold front hitting the midwest all the way to the northeast parts of the country with extremely low temperatures.

It was a tough year for the Razorbacks, who had high expectations. It turned into a season where the team was glad to get the bowl game monkey off its back, according to head coach Sam Pittman.

“I didn’t say what bowl, I just said we wanted to go to a bowl,” Pittman said after the Ole Miss win earlier this year. “I think it’s big, you know, and I’ve got some heck because I said one of our goals is to go bowling, and one of our goals is to go to a bowl. You know, you can go to the Fiesta Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, the Cotton Bowl. 

“I mean, there’s a lot of bowls. Obviously, we want to go to the best possible bowl we can go to. And the more wins the better the better possibility of bowls, you get more, you know. And so we want to win, obviously.”

On the flip side of things, Lance Leipold led Kansas to six wins in a resurgent year for the program. He signed a contract extension back in November.

Leipold was hired away from Buffalo, hoping to help bring Kansas out of the basement of college football. When he took over, the Jayhawks had a total of 17 wins over the past decade, including two winless seasons. No Power Five program across the country was as bad.

Both teams have a chance to make a statement with a season-ending win and go into 2023 on a high note.

Kansas (6-6) takes on Arkansas (6-6) Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. ET.