Kentucky's SEC start highlights struggles of 5 other conference teams
It’s one thing for Kentucky to have a season the Bluegrass hasn’t enjoyed like this since the 1970s, but it’s quite another to frame it in context with other SEC teams.
Kentucky’s four SEC wins — against Florida, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Vanderbilt — mean the Wildcats have topped the combined conference win totals of Auburn (two), Tennessee (one), Missouri (zero), Arkansas (zero) and Vanderbilt (zero).
While some of these other SEC teams have had their share of struggles in recent years, it’s tough to see them all having trouble at the same time, while the Wildcats are thriving.
This is UK’s best five-game SEC start since the 1977 team started 5-0. This is continuing a trend that also hasn’t been seen in four decades. UK is 11-7 in its last 18 SEC games, the best 18-game stretch since the 1977-79 teams went 11-7.
Even a glass half-empty view wouldn’t be all bad. UK will finish at least .500 or better in the SEC for three straight seasons, the first time that has been accomplished since 1953-56.
UK will next play at Missouri on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.
Entering Week 9, Kentucky has more SEC wins than Auburn, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and Vanderbilt combined. pic.twitter.com/ksGzlv5DJj
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) October 22, 2018
If Kentucky plays like they did in the first half of the Vandy game they will be in big trouble saturday
I don’t know if that’s true. Don’t get me wrong – NO part of me likes the fact that Terry Wilson is our long-term answer at QB. But I’m actually really excited to see our secondary versus Missouri. Really excited. It may burn me, but I love this challenge and until we show we’re serious enough to try something different at QB, we have to simply take this season as the fun experience it is and not allow ourselves to get down in the dumps about the POTENTIAL opportunity that is being blown by keeping Wilson under center.
You have a better record with him at QB than mist of the past QB’s in your history. You can say “yeah but” all you want but the only “but” that matters is you’re winning. If lock and the Mizzou offense goes on a tear it probably won’t matter whose playing QB for you. When they are on they are difficult to keep up with.
Our defense is difficult to keep up with.