Big Blue Links for Sunday:
- Chip Cosby of Herald-Leader writes that Kentucky got run over in its 31-24 loss to Mississippi State.
- My column on UK’s lack of Wildcat and lack of Randall Cobb on Saturday.
- Mark Story’s column saying MSU running game was whistling Dixon.
- Herald-Leader photo gallery from the UK-State game.
- Jerry Tipton writes that Campbellsville is stepping into the Big Blue spotlight.
- Brett Dawson of the Courier-Journal writes that State runs all over the Cats.
- Larry Vaught of the Danville Advocate-Messenger reports that Cobb question team’s emotion, effort.
- Richard Skinner of the Cats Pause writes that State bowled over the Cats.
- Brad Locke of the NE Mississippi Journal writes on the Mississippi State victory over UK.
- Kyle Veazey of the Clarion-Ledger writes that State bulldozed Kentucky.
- James Pennington of the Kentucky Kernel writes that the players struggled to explain Anthony Dixon’s big night.
- B.W. Jones of the Kernel reports that Cats said Dixon was good, but not that good.
- Eric Lindsey of Cat Scratches has the Big Blueprint on the Kentucky loss.
- A Sea of Blue discusses the aftermath of the UK loss.
- Alan Cutler of WLEX says the Kentucky players were at a loss for words.
- Straitpinkie gives its thoughts on the Kentucky defeat.
- Wildcat Blue Blog says there were no treats in this loss.
- Inner Circle looks at why Kentucky isn’t practicing in Louisville.

John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at jclay@herald-leader.com.
AND too little quality coaching.
Early bye week was a bad idea. A lot of tired and beat up players now.