FAYETTEVILLE -- Arkansas hopes to snap a losing skid in a difficult place to play on Saturday against Florida in The Swamp.

Arkansas opened the season 2-0, but has lost its last six games. Following a 7-3 loss to Mississippi State Oct. 21 Sam Pittman fired Dan Enos as offensive coordinator. He then moved Kenny Guiton from coaching wide receivers to offensive coordinator and coach the quarterbacks. Pittman and the Hogs are coming off a much-needed bye week. Pittman talked about watching college football on TV Saturday following Friday on the recruiting trail.

"We had a great day on Friday," Pittman said. "It was really good to get out to high schools and watch games and things of that nature. I did, I started out watching A&M and South Carolina and headed to watch Georgia-Florida. I watched that then took a little nap and watched the end of the Colorado game. It was fun to be a spectator with no pressure and not having to make any decisions. Just sit there and have an ol' col' beer. So, it was fun."

Pittman went into more detail on being able to watch games which is something he normally doesn't get to do much of on game day.

"If you have a night game you might be able to watch an 11 o'clock game or something like that," Pittman said. "It's amazing. You try to help these kids reach their goal of the NFL, and you never see them play. You just don't. College-wise, it was fun. Those were fun. I see why people are fans of college football. It was a lot of fun.

"I think, too, as the week went on last week... I was thinking about it because after the game I went to, I met Jamie down in Hot Springs and I was thinking about what transpired in a week's time. Then you can take it back to what's transpired over the last seven weeks or eight weeks. We've got a problem that we've got to get fixed. But from a week ago to where we're sitting today, I feel good about where we're at."

Where they are at is a place that Pittman feels will see the team play hard despite how the season has played out.

"I think they’ll continue to play hard," Pittman said. "I would think it would be very, very hard for them to lose their enthusiasm and their luster and their will to play because of the coaches they have over there. They hold them accountable but yet they’re very positive and charismatic with them and they’re believing. Hopefully that’s what will to our offense as well this week and we’ll go out there and have us a really good football game. 

"There’s been games this year where we’ve had the opportunity to win or we were ahead or tied and things didn’t always go our way defensively either (LSU/BYU/OM/BAMA) so it would be very hard … It’s easy when it’s 7-3 because you’re going ‘We held them to seven points. You can’t score 10 points.’ But there’s been other games too where … That’s why it’s a team game. There’s been other games where we’ve got to play better there too. There’s no this, this and this. I think we had a problem. I think the team feels like I’m trying to correct it and I think they’re fine with it."

Pittman was also asked if he took any personal time to reflect during the bye week?

"Oh, I think you do that daily, and maybe hourly and — what’s the word — minutely?," Pittman said laughing. "I think you do that. Any time you are in a situation that we’re in, you either give up or you try to figure out how to get out of it. So yeah, I think there’s a lot of reflection on what we’ve done right, what we’ve done wrong, how to correct it, how to get better, those things of that nature. But the kid is, are we fighting like hell to change it or are we not? And I can promise you that we are and ‘we’ means everybody in the building and the players."

While the offense has been the obvious focus of the bye week with the coaching changes, but Pittman feels like the defense also benefitted from the time off.

"100% correct," Pittman said. "There’s a lot of confidence there. I will say this: this is a good offense we’re getting ready to play. Good offensive line, really good receivers, quarterback and running backs are good, really good offensive schematics, so we’ve got our work cut out for us. We can’t let them get to the edge. I think we’ll be as healthy as we’ve been on both sides of the ball as we’ve been all year. I guess that’s what bye weeks are for. I think we’ve done well off bye weeks. I don’t think we had one our first year, but I think we’ve won the other two. I think we did. I think we beat Mississippi State here one year and last year I think we went to Auburn after the bye week. We’ve had some good success coming off the bye weeks."

Guiton, as it turns out, will be in the press box for games. It was originally thought he would be on the sidelines. but has opted to be upstairs.

"He told me he was not that comfortable," Pittman said. "He didn't think he would be comfortable on the sideline after he initially thought that's where he needed to be. Any coordinator to me that is especially young will be much better upstairs but I gave him that opportunity to decided what he wanted to do and he changed to wanted to be in the box."

Arkansas and Florida will kickoff at 11 a.m. on Saturday and televised on ESPN2.