Is 2016 the year Kentucky breaks its bowl-less streak?

The Wildcats enter an interesting year for head coach Mark Stoops, and some whispers are starting to take shape for Stoops’ seat getting a little hotter.

Under Stoops’ leadership, Kentucky has finished 2-10, 5-7 and 5-7, and it’s time the program takes another step and becomes bowl eligible this season.

The Wildcats aren’t lacking playmakers; plenty will get touches this season, but none are more explosive than Boom Williams, one of my favorite (and the most underrated) players in the conference.

SEC Network analysts Jordan Rodgers and Clint Stoerner took a stab at Kentucky’s game-by-game predictions for this season, and there was a surprise. The analysts picked Kentucky to upset Georgia this season.

Here are the predictions:

7-5 overall, 4-4 SEC

Sep. 3 vs. Southern Miss: Win
Sep. 10 at Florida: Loss
Sep. 17 vs. New Mexico State: Win
Sep. 24 vs. South Carolina: Win
Oct. 1 at Alabama: Loss
Oct. 8 vs. Vanderbilt: Loss
Oct. 22 vs. Mississippi State: Win
Oct. 29 at Missouri: Win
Nov. 5 vs. Georgia: Win
Nov. 12 at Tennessee: Loss
Nov. 19 vs. Austin Peay: Win
Nov. 26 at Louisville: Loss

Here’s the screenshot from the SEC Network:

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