OXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss had a hard time keeping up with Felix Jones early Saturday. The man often referred to as “ the other guy” in Arkansas’ backfield scored two touchdowns in a hurry for the Razorbacks, jump-starting a 44-8 win at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

Jones scored on runs of 38 and 11 yards to give the Razorbacks an early 14-0 lead.

“ It makes all the difference in the world when you can score back-to-back like that, ” Arkansas coach Houston Nutt said. “ Now your confidence is growing and you’re not turning the ball over. We were blocking and catching and it was all coming together. ”

Jones finished the game with 101 yards on 15 carries to mark the sixth time in seven games this season he has eclipsed the century mark rushing. Junior Darren McFadden finished with 110 yards on 22 carries, but was held out of the end zone for the second straight game.

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Jones ’ first touchdown came with 8: 49 to go in the first quarter on a sprint-out draw play.

After McFadden gained 30 yards on a third-and-10 draw one play earlier, Jones took a handoff out of the I-formation and raced 38 yards down the right sideline to give the Razorbacks a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

“ I thought Felix Jones ’ run on that play was one you want to frame and cut out of the page and hang on the wall, ” Arkansas offensive coordinator David Lee said. “ That’s a highlight-reel run. That’s maybe the best run I’ve seen all season. ”

Jones and the Razorbacks used an old trick to get on the scoreboard on the second offensive drive.

With McFadden lined up at quarterback in the Wild-Hog formation on secondand-goal from the Ole Miss 11, Jones took a draw nearly untouched to the end zone to give Arkansas a 14-0 lead exactly five minutes after the first score. It was Arkansas’ first score out of the WildHog formation since McFadden hit Crosby Tuck for a 42-yard TD pass in the season-opening win over Troy. A week after struggling to a season-low 67 rushing yards against Auburn, the Razorback ground game accumulated 293 yards. “ They were very disappointed last week, ” Nutt said. “ We’re better than that. Our offensive line came out very determined to block these guys this week. ”

Near Miss A 37-yard touchdown strike from Brent Schaeffer to Mike Wallace nullified Arkansas’ bid for a shutout. It would have been Arkansas’ first conference shutout since beating South Carolina 23-0 in 2002.

“ We were very, very concerned about this offense, ” Arkansas defensive coordinator Reggie Herring said. “ I think we were a little flat early stopping the run, but we got our wits together. What we did was for the fourth week in a row, with the exception of that one at the end, we didn’t give up any cheap, easy touchdowns.

“ We wanted the shutout, but we let it get away in the end. We’re still very, very proud of these kids coming with back-to-back ball games in the SEC where very easily we could’ve been flat and let it get away from us. ”

It was the second time in as many weeks the Razorback defense held its opponent to single-digit scoring. Arkansas held Auburn out of the end zone last week, but three field goals allowed the Tigers to pull out a 9-7 win.

Arkansas limited Ole Miss to 294 total yards, including 182 yards through the air. The Rebels entered the game averaging 243. 3 yards per game in that department, fourth in the conference at the time.

Before the Rebels’ fourth quarter touchdown, Arkansas had held Ole Miss out of the end zone eight consecutive quarters dating back to Arkansas’ last trip to Oxford in 2005.

Arkansas has outscored Ole Miss 82-11 in the last two meetings.

Strike up the band When Jones had finished with his fireworks, the Ole Miss band supplied some of its own. The band shot off a round of fireworks immediately following its halftime performance, the results of which knocked out half of the stadium’s electricity for more than an hour. Arkansas senior fullback Peyton Hillis said the players noticed the power had gone out but didn’t hear the loud explosions from the locker room at halftime. Two transformers were blown in the north end of the stadium which caused the outage, including the video screen and scoreboard on that side.