Tennessee was on the wrong end of history at Arkansas on Saturday night.

The fourth-ranked Vols fell 19-14 to the unranked Razorbacks, marking the fourth straight loss in the series and the fourth straight loss in Fayetteville dating back to 2001.

With No. 1 Alabama falling at Vanderbilt, two top 5 SEC teams lost to unranked teams on the same day for the first time in league history.

Upset Saturday also featured five of the top 11 ranked teams losing

Arkansas (4-2) prevailed despite losing its starting quarterback, starting running back, starting kicker and blowing several scoring opportunities in the first half.

When it mattered most, however, the banged up Hogs marched 59 yards on four plays and scored the winning touchdown on an 11-yard run by backup QB Malachi Singleton. The drive included plays of 15, 24, 11 and 11 yards.

It was apparent Tennessee’s defense allowed Singleton to score with 1:17 left on a first-down snap, hoping to get the ball back with a chance to answer.

“They got an opportunity to drain the clock,” Heupel said of Arkansas’ last possession.

“We played it the way we did.”

In the final 77 seconds, Tennessee quarterback Nico iamaleava hit Dont’e Thornton for 42 yards to reach the Arkansas 25. But Iamaleava threw two incompletions, Dylan Sampson ran for 4 yards and, facing fourth-and-5 with 6 seconds left, Iamaleava ran out of bounds on the final play rather than throw a pass up for grabs.

Arkansas has now defeated Tennessee twice when the Vols were ranked in the top five. The Razorbacks upset then-No. 3 UT in 1999 in Fayetteville.

“This one hurts like all losses do,” Heupel said after his first UT defeat following an open date. “At the end of the day, we weren’t good enough. It starts with me and the coaches.

“We played hard, but we didn’t play smart.”

Arkansas dominated the first half, but somehow led only 3-0 despite outgaining Tennessee 223 yards to 76 and controlling the ball for 20:34. The Hogs failed on two fourth-and-1 tries, dropped a pass in the end zone, missed a wide open receiver for what would have been another score, and committed an illegal procedure penalty from the 1-yard line which led to a field goal rather than a touchdown.

Asked at halftime about squandering a plethora of chances, Arkansas coach Sam Pittman said: “I’d rather be us than them.”

Clearly, Pittman was referring to how his team was dominating the visiting Vols.

Tennessee took command in the third quarter, driving 75 and 60 yards for a pair of touchdowns to grab a 14-3 lead.

Arkansas had three explosive gains to march 75 yards and cut the margin to 14-10.

Then came perhaps the play of the game. On the first snap of the fourth quarter, the Vols roughed the punter, giving Arkansas new life.

For a change, the Hogs took advantage, driving to the 2-yard-line before a fumbled snap forced a field goal by backup kicker Matthew Shipley, cutting the gap to 14-13.

Tennessee punted on its next three possessions. Arkansas struggled without quarterback Taylen Green, who was 19 of 27 for 266 yards. But when the Hogs got the ball back at their 41 with 3:20, they caught fire, finally penetrating the nation’s best defense.

Arkansas fans stormed the field for the second time in Pittman’s tenure.

“I think the AD (athletic director) is going to be mad,” Pittman said. “Or maybe he won’t be. I don’t know. Right now, I don’t care.”

But Pittman cared about a win that could turn Arkansas’s season around and save Pittman’s job.

“The defense ended up keeping us in it,” Pittman said. “And the No. 2 quarterback, wasn’t that awesome. This is a big, big win for the University of Arkansas.”

And a heart-breaking loss for the University of Tennessee.

“I told the guys,’ Let it hurt,’” Heupel said. “Let it sting. It should.

“We left a lot out there. Offensively, we continue to shoot ourselves in the foot.”

Running back Dylan Sampson, who led the Vols with 140 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries, implied the Vols might have overlooked the Hogs.

“Maybe when you look back on our preparation,” Sampson said, “maybe we took the bye week for granted. You can’t just flip the switch.”

But he added: “We fought hard. We’ve got relentless competitors. But we’ve got to win those one-on-one battles.”

They didn’t win enough to escape Fayetteville with the program’s first win since 2001.

And they didn’t win enough to maintain that No. 4 ranking.