Shreveport, La. ? Arkansas sees a dual-threat every day in practice from its own Matt Jones, who this year set the school’s rushing mark by a quarterback for the third straight season.

But the Razorbacks haven’t had to stop someone like Brad Smith. The Missouri sophomore has more rushing yards than Arkansas senior tailback Cedric Cobbs — 1,310 to 1,179 — and he has passed for only 46 yards fewer than Jones.

“He’s a complete quarterback from the standpoint that he’s a running back,” Arkansas defensive coordinator Dave Wommack said. “His legs open the passing game because you can’t cover them all day long back there. He can move around and find someone open.”

With 178 yards passing against Arkansas (8-4) in Wednesday’s Independence Bowl, Smith would become the first player in NCAA history to twice surpass 2,000 yards passing and 1,000 rushing in a season.

“We haven’t faced anybody like him in a game,” Arkansas cornerback Lawrence Richardson said. “The closest one was (Chris) Leak from Florida, but he didn’t run on us at all. I don’t know if we can stop him, but we’ve got to contain him because he’s going to get his. “If we can get him under a 100 yards, we think we will have done our jobs.”

Smith does it all for Missouri (8-4) and he’s led the school to its first bowl game since 1998. His rushing and passing accounts for 60 percent of the Tigers’ offense. Like Jones, he’s not dangerous throwing the ball, but he’s effective.

As a red-shirt freshman last year, he completed 53.6 percent of his passes for 2,333 yards with 15 touchdowns and just six interceptions. This year, his yards and touchdowns are down to 1,822 and 11, but he’s completed 60.6 percent of his passes and thrown just six interceptions in 320 attempts.

But the 6-foot-2, 205 pound Smith is most dangerous running the football in the open field. He put up the Big 12’s seventh-best rushing day ever with 291 yards and five touchdowns against Texas Tech, leading Missouri to a 62-31 victory.

With two years of eligibility remaining, Smith is already seventh on the Big 12’s career total offense list with 6,554 yards.

Missouri quarterback Brad Smith, left, hands the ball off during practice. Missouri will play Arkansas in the Independence Bowl Wednesday at Shreveport, La.

He’s less than a season from moving into second and if he plays at the same pace for two more years, he has a chance to surpass former Texas Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury’s total of 12,263 yards.

Wommack said stopping Smith will not be the goal.

“I think you have to give him different looks and you’ve got to do a great job of tackling as much as anything else,” Wommack said. “About as good as you’re ever going to get in football is one-on-one tackling somebody. The game is designed with 11 guys on defense and 10 guys normally on offense with the quarterback throwing the ball.

“They’ve got 11 guys on the field you have to account for, because he’s going to run the football. It’s difficult.”

To help combat Smith’s running ability, Wommack has moved free safety Tony Bua back to outside linebacker. Bua made 109 and 131 tackles as a sophomore and junior playing up on the line of scrimmage and he was a preseason candidate for the Butkus Award, which goes to the nation’s top linebacker.

However, Bua moved to free safety for the season to replace Ken Hamlin, who left early for the NFL after setting Arkansas’ career tackles record with 381. Bua broke that record with a team-leading 121 tackles this year, giving him 403 for his career.

“Their whole offense relies on Brad Smith and there’s no doubt about that,” Bua said. “We just have to do what we can to make him put the ball in other people’s hands and make them win the game.”

Arkansas defenders don’t want to put the team’s offense in the position of matching Missouri touchdown for touchdown. The Razorbacks have had problems scoring in recent bowls, averaging just 10 points in losses at the Las Vegas, Cotton and Music City bowls.

Arkansas is coming off its best scoring season in school history with 409 points, putting up at least 28 points in its eight wins and scoring more than 45 five times.

The Tigers scored at least 35 points in seven of their eight wins. In their four losses, they were held to 16 or fewer points. In those four losses, Smith was held to less than 50 yards rushing and 180 passing three times.

“If we don’t contain him and let him put a lot of points on the board it will be a shootout,” Richardson said.