The Arkansas football season is less than a week away and it’s honestly hard to tell.

Sam Pittman has tried to do all he can as a head coach to avoid it, but fan apathy is high. It doesn’t require a deep dive into media numbers to figure this out.

It’s obvious at the surface level. A story saying John Calipari sneezed and then wiped his nose with a high quality Kleenex has the potential to draw record-breaking numbers as Razorback fans have fallen over themselves to read anything basketball.

However, it takes 10 football stories to draw the numbers of a single basketball story even in the stifling heat of August. It hasn’t mattered what Sam Pittman has done or how much optimism has slowly built.

The good news for Pittman is if things head south on his team come October, Hog fans are going to be so wrapped up in basketball, very few will notice.

They’ll just check back a day or two after that Thanksgiving Day showdown against Illinois to see if Pittman still has a job before returning back to full basketball mode.

It’s going to take something big for this staff to get modest interest from the majority of fans, much less a true rabid loss of mind over the Hogs.

There are tons of seats still available for the season opener against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

That’s despite tickets going as low as $26 on the second-hand market and seats on the 50 going for as little as $56.

These secondhand guys must be losing money like crazy on this.