We’re 40 days away from Kentucky’s football opener versus Miami of Ohio at Paul Brown Stadium.
So for each of the next 40 days I’ll tackle a UK football issue or post a fact leading up to the opener.
We’ll start with the fact that Kentucky has won 13 14 straight non-conference games heading into the match-up with the Red Hawks.
Here they are:
On the list, I count six heart attack games. The old Kentucky doesn’t win the close ones. Great job by Brooks and staff.
A lot of cupcakes, but the wins over Clemson, UL ’07, Florida St, and East Carolina were very impressive. It’s been a nice ride. Hope it continues this year.
Okay great they have won 14 games non-conference. But come on what is with the cup cakes? Looking at it I only recognize three teams (4games) from the BCS.
Point is an SEC team playing that schedule should have a streak. Start playing some real non-con games and then maybe just maybe you will be ready to compete in the SEC.
Would we tolerate our BB team playing a schedule like this? I think NOT!!!
People get on the Cats about their cupcake schedule but looking at teams throughout the nation, very few play as many elite teams as every team in the SEC plays in a season.
With our SEC schedule, we have to have some cupcakes. But it would be nice to see a marquee non conference game take the place of the Indiana game. And NO, Western Kentucky does not count. Why not play somebody like Oregon or Nebraska?