Upset alert: Kentucky takes 3-possession lead over Texas A&M with dominant drives
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Upsets can happen anywhere, anytime, in any conference, and unranked Kentucky had a red alert for Big Blue Nation going on Saturday afternoon in College Station against 9th-ranked Texas A&M.
The Aggies were supposed to get to 3-0 on Saturday afternoon in the ESPN game and win their SEC opener, because Will Stein‘s first Kentucky team just wouldn’t be ready for the punch that Texas A&M would pack, especially limping in after last week’s home loss to Alabama.
Too much for UK and Stein to handle, right? Absolutely wrong, as it turns out.
First, there was this 3-yard touchdown run by CJ Baxter with 3:55 left in the 3rd quarter that gave the Cats a shocking 21-7 lead at a stunned Kyle Field:
Then Baxter decided to do it again a few minutes later with a 2-yard touchdown burst with 16 seconds left in the period, giving the Wildcats an even more stunning 28-7 lead over the favored Aggies as frustration set in for The 12th Man in College Station.
Sure, there was an entire quarter left to play, but the Week 3 battle between UK and Texas A&M was taking a turn that hardly anybody could have seen coming when the 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff began.
Kentucky is trying to start a new era of winning under a new head coach, and here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the Wildcats’ potential win total for the 2026 season:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
