Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Everybody did Gabriel with you. Hope you're enjoying
Speaker 1: a great day, and there are still a few hours left.
Speaker 1: We thought we would bring you an encore presentation of
Speaker 1: our postseason football special. Not a great year, but there
Speaker 1: were some great moments. Please enjoy the best of the
Speaker 1: Big Blue Insider. Usually this time of year, we're preparing
Speaker 1: coverage of Kentucky in a bowl game, but as we
Speaker 1: all know, it ain't gonna happen this year and in
Speaker 1: the year's past. During Bowl week, at some point, either
Speaker 1: before or right after the game, I have put together
Speaker 1: a special that I presented that relives all the highlights
Speaker 1: of the football season. Well, there weren't that many this year,
Speaker 1: as we know, there were only four wins. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do something a little bit different this year. We're
Speaker 1: going to look back on some of the fun we
Speaker 1: did have presenting these games to you because we did
Speaker 1: something different this season. And if you listen to our
Speaker 1: radio broadcast, which we appreciate, I know every game's on TV,
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of pregame programming, and then of course
Speaker 1: a lot of you try to sync things up and
Speaker 1: listen to the radio and watch the TV. We did
Speaker 1: something different and it goes back to what we used
Speaker 1: to do gosh, about fifteen years ago, maybe when the
Speaker 1: network was held by different rights holders. It's kind of
Speaker 1: an inside baseball thing, but we would have kind of
Speaker 1: a big, dramatic opening with music and a guy with
Speaker 1: a big voice. It's a voice that you hear on
Speaker 1: ESPN and other promos and things like that, and we
Speaker 1: really missed that, so we decided to get back to that,
Speaker 1: only with a bit of a twist. We decided to
Speaker 1: use what we were calling celebrities to open the broadcast.
Speaker 1: Former players, former coach Rich Brooks, even an actor Josh Hopkins,
Speaker 1: who lives in Austin, Texas now. Grew up in election
Speaker 1: in the son of Congressman Larry Hopkins, big UK fan,
Speaker 1: but his work as an actor led him to Texas,
Speaker 1: where he lives now. So we had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun of writing them producing them. I had to try
Speaker 1: to chase these folks down, but when we did, they
Speaker 1: were more than happy to do it. So they turned
Speaker 1: out really well. I think I think everybody who did
Speaker 1: it pitched in and did a great job. So we're
Speaker 1: going to go back and listen to those and I'll
Speaker 1: have some highlights from the games, even the ones that
Speaker 1: didn't go so well, the games that went in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction, because there were some good plays, some big plays,
Speaker 1: but just not enough of them obviously, So it was
Speaker 1: a different season. It was an odd season. One we
Speaker 1: haven't dealt with much in this part of the football
Speaker 1: world for the last what eight years, nine years since
Speaker 1: Kentucky started going to bowl games. So that's why this
Speaker 1: show will be unlike the others. We won't be presenting
Speaker 1: melts from all the wins. We will present one melt.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you, the melt that I
Speaker 1: put together after the Old Miss game. The melt, of course,
Speaker 1: is like eight or nine minutes of all the great
Speaker 1: plays and moments strung together, because that was obviously the
Speaker 1: biggest win of the season, one of the biggest wins
Speaker 1: in all the college football this year. And when you
Speaker 1: think about what happened with Ole Miss football this season,
Speaker 1: that loss to Kentucky is probably I would think what
Speaker 1: kept Old Miss out of the playoff because when you're
Speaker 1: up in that rarefied air, when people are talking about
Speaker 1: you and thinking about you, that one loss, especially to
Speaker 1: a team with a losing record could really be damaging
Speaker 1: to your resume. So Kentucky played a bit of the
Speaker 1: spoiler role a little miss this year. So we're going
Speaker 1: to relive that one. But first we're going to start with,
Speaker 1: of course, the season opener, and that came against Southern Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Our first celebrity monologue came from former UK quarterback Bill Ransdell,
Speaker 1: and Tom Leech suggested this because this was the fortieth
Speaker 1: anniversary of the nineteen eighty four Kentucky team that won
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame Bowl, and of course Bill was
Speaker 1: the quarterback. They celebrated with the reunion to the former players,
Speaker 1: and Bill actually came to the garage and sat down
Speaker 1: helped us open the broadcast.
Speaker 2: It's the season, the first step on a journey to
Speaker 2: do something special and memorable. Here's UK Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: quarterback Bill Ransdell.
Speaker 3: Hard to believe it's been four decades since the Kentucky Wildcats.
Speaker 3: My Wildcats put together a special season that was a
Speaker 3: long time coming. The year before, we had set an
Speaker 3: NCAA record for victories by a team that had gone
Speaker 3: winless the season prior, and now we wanted both. In
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four, we won nine including the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame Bowl, our second straight postseason appearance.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see if they go through with it.
Speaker 1: Jones down on one knee as a snap.
Speaker 2: They're going to try it, and it is long enough.
Speaker 2: It is I believe yees think he got it good? No,
Speaker 2: Joey Warling jush hid a Kentucky Bield gold distant runner
Speaker 2: heavy a joke up the Cats and luck for the
Speaker 2: first time to night. It is Kentucky twenty Chris Hunt
Speaker 2: in nineteen.
Speaker 3: Today, forty years later, Mark Stoops and his Wildcats begin
Speaker 3: their quest for a ninth consecutive Bowl bit only three
Speaker 3: other teams in the SEC and save that.
Speaker 1: First up on.
Speaker 3: The ruling scheduled the Southern Mississippi, a team that is
Speaker 3: always dangerous. But the Cats have a new look offense
Speaker 3: and a talented defense, and they say they're ready to go.
Speaker 3: It's the Wildcats and the Golden Eagles on game day
Speaker 3: here at Kroger Field.
Speaker 2: Coming up next to Wow.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Wildcats for a brand new quarterback, Brock Vandergriff.
Speaker 1: He had a great time. He passed for three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The UK defense pitched a shutout in a thirty one
Speaker 1: to nothing game. And of course it was weather shortened.
Speaker 1: There were all kinds of concerns about the weather, lightning
Speaker 1: and thunder and rain, and long story short, it shortened
Speaker 1: the game by nine minutes and fifty six seconds. They
Speaker 1: you know, after a long rain delay, they decided the
Speaker 1: lightning's not gonna let up, so we're just gonna shut
Speaker 1: it down. Team officials, game officials in communication with the SEC.
Speaker 1: But not before vander Riff, in his first career start
Speaker 1: after transferring in from Georgia, hit on twelve at eighteen passes,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty nine yards, three scores, Demi Sumo
Speaker 1: Carnbay eight carries for fifty nine yards, and the defense
Speaker 1: holding Mississippi or Southern Mississippi to just one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one yards. So yeah, it was a fun day.
Speaker 1: The scoring got started when Rock Vandergriff hit Barrion Brown
Speaker 1: first touchdown of the year, twelve yards and it's seven
Speaker 1: nothing Wildcats.
Speaker 2: And a Griff retreats looking left, padding the football, now
Speaker 2: scrambling back to the right, throws for the end zone
Speaker 2: and did he get it touchdown? Kentucky.
Speaker 1: There was ten to nothing when Demi Sumo Krnbay capped
Speaker 1: off a drive with a touchdown, his first of the year.
Speaker 2: First and goal at the one and off Subo Carnbay
Speaker 2: touchdown Kentucky. He goes in up the middle, standing up.
Speaker 1: And then Brock Vandergriff went right back to Barrion Brown,
Speaker 1: this time from twelve yards out. That made it twenty
Speaker 1: four to nothing.
Speaker 2: Here's the pitch ahead to Brown sweeping right across the ten,
Speaker 2: break set tackle headed to the far side. Touchdown. Kentucky
Speaker 2: broke the tackle of the five and Baryon Brown snuck
Speaker 2: in just in front of the right front pylon. Full
Speaker 2: of Cats. Twelve yard touchdown run or passes, we'll go.
Speaker 1: That was a score at halftime. Kentucky would have a
Speaker 1: scoring possession in that third quarter. Rock Vandergriff hit Jimori
Speaker 1: Macknan for forty six yards set up the Cats at
Speaker 1: the southern miss eight yard line. Two plays later, and
Speaker 1: a griff to Jordan Dingle from five yards out.
Speaker 2: Three receivers in a triangle outside the right tackle, tight
Speaker 2: end left, and a griff with a fake holy right
Speaker 2: man Whine open touchdown Kentucky to It's Dingle, big boy
Speaker 2: just inside the right front pylon. Fitzbarrow is happy tight
Speaker 2: end's gonna touchdown and that.
Speaker 1: Made it thirty one to nothing, and that would end
Speaker 1: up being the final score as Kentucky opened the season
Speaker 1: with a win over Southern Mississippi. We'll come back with
Speaker 1: more of this special edition of the Big Blue Insider
Speaker 1: as we look back on some of the highlights and
Speaker 1: some of the celebrities who helped us open broadcasts this
Speaker 1: year of Kentucky football games. Here in the Big Boon
Speaker 1: Sider six thirty wlap Merry Christmas, everybody that gave her
Speaker 1: with you in the special edition of the Big Moon Sider,
Speaker 1: an encore presentation of our football special looking back on
Speaker 1: an odd year, there were some highlights in the lot
Speaker 1: of celebrities joined us as they opened our broadcasts on
Speaker 1: the UK Sports Network. This was a year, as I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, where we had celebrities open our broadcast. We
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun with that, even though there
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of fun involved with watching the Wildcats
Speaker 1: go four and eight, but it did kind of lift
Speaker 1: our spirits. South Carolina was the second game on the schedule,
Speaker 1: and as you recall, that game did not go too
Speaker 1: terribly well. But the guy who opened up our broadcast
Speaker 1: with Jojo Kemp, and he came to the garage and
Speaker 1: he helped us recall a night when the Wildcats ran
Speaker 1: literally all over Steve Spurrier's game Cocks, and Jojo was
Speaker 1: one of the biggest reasons.
Speaker 2: Week two for the Kentucky Wildcats the start of SEC
Speaker 2: play and a matchup that brings to mind a phrase
Speaker 2: that has two meetings. Jojo Kemp was a Wildcat. He
Speaker 2: wrote it was.
Speaker 1: Ten years ago.
Speaker 4: Back in twenty fourteen, West South Carolina game CAUs came
Speaker 4: to town and got a taste of the wildcat for
Speaker 4: a mission. I had a lot of fun that night.
Speaker 2: Wildcat formation, snapped the camp and he goes in touchdown
Speaker 2: Kentucky straight up the little on the Wildcat formation.
Speaker 4: My office A line was super. They helped me run
Speaker 4: for one hundred and thirty one yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Direct snap the camp man. He goes in standing up.
Speaker 2: It's crazy for the touchdown, that's amazing. I'm amazed at
Speaker 2: that kid.
Speaker 4: My third score tied the game thirty eight thirty eight,
Speaker 4: and that's when our defense came up.
Speaker 2: He steps up of the pocket. It's deflected up into
Speaker 2: the air.
Speaker 5: It's dinner up in tuck down the tucky, but the
Speaker 5: pre caught it.
Speaker 2: Runs. Wow. He flipped it into the air and the
Speaker 2: pre caught it in full stride.
Speaker 4: A man budd the three put us up a touchdown.
Speaker 4: Then our defense held again. So it was up to
Speaker 4: us the offense to kill the rest of the clock.
Speaker 2: Kemp straight ahead and he's got the first down. I
Speaker 2: think there's the chain stretched out. Put down the stick,
Speaker 2: first down. Kentucky. The Wildcats defeats South Carolina forty five
Speaker 2: to thirty eight. Game over.
Speaker 4: The Big Blue Nation stormed the field.
Speaker 2: And it's party time as the fans come on the
Speaker 2: field a Commonwealth Stadium, we sent the game calls home.
Speaker 4: We need to do that again tonight.
Speaker 2: We're changing the game. Why not Kentucky? Why not us?
Speaker 4: I'll say it again what I said back then, Why
Speaker 4: not us?
Speaker 6: Why not Kentucky?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: And as I said, nothing good to remember about that game.
Speaker 1: Wildcats lost it thirty one to six, even though they
Speaker 1: had twelve tackles for loss in three sacks. The defense
Speaker 1: acquitted itself. Well finally it just kind of collapsed. Ty
Speaker 1: Bryant did have an interception.
Speaker 2: Sellers drops the throw all day, dancing around, fires into
Speaker 2: the middle and it's intercepted across the thirty and falling
Speaker 2: down at the twenty eight yard line, and making the
Speaker 2: interception was Ty Bryant. The sun board from here in Lexington,
Speaker 2: the son of former Wildcats Cisco Bryant, sets up the
Speaker 2: Wildcats inside the South Carolina thirty yard line.
Speaker 1: Biggest play for the Wildcats offensively was Brock Vandergriff hooking
Speaker 1: up with Dane Key forty two yards And there was
Speaker 1: something we saw all year as Brock tried to go
Speaker 1: to Dane, who became his favorite receiver, play fake.
Speaker 2: He's throwing deep down the near side for Key and
Speaker 2: he pulls it in and didn't he make the catch? Yes,
Speaker 2: who want to throw and catch? At the South Carolina
Speaker 2: thirty nine yard line. Vandergriff dropped that in like a
Speaker 2: directional punt and Key fielded it over his shoulder and
Speaker 2: got knocked out of bounds at the thirty nine yard
Speaker 2: line of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: But that's all the Wildcats could muster a couple of
Speaker 1: field goals losing to the game Cocks. So it went
Speaker 1: on to have a pretty strong season. Next game, what
Speaker 1: might be the most puzzling game of the year, maybe
Speaker 1: even more so than the Old Miss game, which of
Speaker 1: course was an upset win by the Wildcats. On the road,
Speaker 1: Georgia comes to town and we still weren't sure what
Speaker 1: we were seeing with Kentucky. But of course whatever confidence
Speaker 1: we might have had as fans as media was shaken
Speaker 1: by that loss. They just did not look good at
Speaker 1: all against South Carolina and their edge rushers. We thought,
Speaker 1: what in the world is Georgia going to do to
Speaker 1: this team? Well, big bad Georgia came in and Kentucky
Speaker 1: played the Bulldogs right out of their cleats to that
Speaker 1: one point lost, And I still look back on that
Speaker 1: as a sort of a reminder of what might have been.
Speaker 1: If the Wildcats had stayed together, had stayed healthy, they
Speaker 1: could have won that game. Wasn't it should have, but
Speaker 1: could have. As you recall, there was a controversial decision
Speaker 1: at the end of the game by Mark Stoops to
Speaker 1: punt the ball and put everything on this defense to
Speaker 1: get the ball back, which it did not, as Georgia
Speaker 1: converted on a big third downplay and that was the game.
Speaker 1: Kentucky had moved the ball between the thirties basically and
Speaker 1: just could not get into the end zone. But the
Speaker 1: Wildcats kicked four field goals and made it as difficult
Speaker 1: on Georgia as any team could in a long, long time.
Speaker 1: We started the game with a cold open, as we
Speaker 1: call it, from a guy who knew what it was
Speaker 1: like to beat the Georgia Bulldogs, and that was former
Speaker 1: coach Rich Brooks.
Speaker 2: Beat a team like Georgia, it takes great players making
Speaker 2: big plays and clutch moments. Coach Rich Brooks knows it
Speaker 2: can be done.
Speaker 7: It's always tough to get a win when you're chasing
Speaker 7: Georgia Bulldogs, but it's not impossible.
Speaker 1: I should know.
Speaker 7: My Wildcat pulled together and beat the Dog's wife in
Speaker 7: twenty six with a Jason on the line, we fought
Speaker 7: him on with a big en zone interception.
Speaker 2: Say the good man interested to be the zone. It
Speaker 2: was Trevard Linley who made the play. He's batted the
Speaker 2: fad pattern up into the air Leo's content and then.
Speaker 7: The cloaking seconds Trevard Lidley pick pop of path, brought
Speaker 7: down the gold Coat and chuck us to a.
Speaker 2: Bulking Stafford retreats mony of time out of the protection
Speaker 2: is breaking down. He slides right. He throws the Georgia
Speaker 2: forty one line. The bands are coming out of the
Speaker 2: end zone on each side. As the Wildcats have beaten
Speaker 2: Georgia for just the eleventh time and sixty tries, the
Speaker 2: police could just say the heck with.
Speaker 7: A let go in twenty oh nine and nafas we
Speaker 7: made big play after big play.
Speaker 2: He don't touch. He can get it on lockdown Derek
Speaker 2: Luft report or eternal.
Speaker 8: Chests down to the Pulldogs seven yards has been seen
Speaker 8: the cord with the what's aception.
Speaker 1: The Wildcats went down to Georgia.
Speaker 7: We were looking for a win to steal and we
Speaker 7: did it. It won't be eighthing, but Park Stoops and
Speaker 7: his cats, they can make it happen tonight at broker Field.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun putting that together with
Speaker 1: a coach and reminiscing ofvia his first zoom. We couldn't
Speaker 1: get that to work, so we did it. I guess
Speaker 1: we did it over the phone as I recall. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: the game, you know what happened. Kentucky just couldn't quite
Speaker 1: punch it into the endzine as I said. But boy
Speaker 1: Alex Rayner, who won a bunch of awards at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, came through he gave Kentucky the
Speaker 1: first lead with a fifty five yard field goal.
Speaker 2: Alex Rayner out there to attempt a fifty five yard
Speaker 2: field goal. It would be a school record if he
Speaker 2: makes it. As we took under three minutes to play
Speaker 2: in this opening quarter, Kentucky trying to get on the
Speaker 2: board first, good step kick is long enough, it's gone
Speaker 2: just clear the crossbar. Fifty five school record and personal
Speaker 2: best fifty five yard field goal by Alex Rainer at
Speaker 2: Kentucky strikes first.
Speaker 1: Georgia eventually pulled ahead by thirteen to nine. Kentucky drove
Speaker 1: into scoring position, had to once again settle for a
Speaker 1: Rainer field goal, this one from fifty one yards out.
Speaker 2: A fifty one yard attempt right footed. Rainer's got to
Speaker 2: pull it back to his left a little bit, good snap,
Speaker 2: enough leg God With eight oh one to play, Alex
Speaker 2: Rainers having a night's four for four.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that would be it for the scoring of Wildcast,
Speaker 1: losing thirteen to twelve. But once again they were the
Speaker 1: talk of college football for how well they played those
Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs. But Wildcats at that point were one and two.
Speaker 1: Needed something good to happen. Needed it soon want to
Speaker 1: come on this special edition of The Big Goingsider here
Speaker 1: on six thirty wlap Harry Christmas. Everybody did Gabriel with
Speaker 1: This is an our core presentation of our football special
Speaker 1: as we look back on the highlights, and there were
Speaker 1: some this season. Also the celebrity monologues that opened our broadcasts.
Speaker 1: This year we had former players, we had coach Rich Brooks,
Speaker 1: we had celebrities help us open the broadcasts and they
Speaker 1: really came off well. I thought, Ohio You was a
Speaker 1: bit of a quandary because Kentucky had only played the
Speaker 1: Bobcats a couple of times through their history. But we
Speaker 1: did find a game back in the mid eighties when
Speaker 1: a future Hall of Famer, I mean UK Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame Football Hall of Famer DERMANI Dawson was part of
Speaker 1: that game and I was able to connect with him
Speaker 1: many helped us open the broadcast.
Speaker 2: Bobcats and Wildcats tangled today for just the seventh time,
Speaker 2: and there's a UK Hall of Famer who remembers the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven match up quite well, Dermonty Dawson.
Speaker 9: The first time the Ohio Bobcats came to Lexington, they
Speaker 9: pulled off an upset. They beat Kentucky thirty five to six.
Speaker 9: That was in nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 2: Line.
Speaker 9: They came back in nineteen eighty seven, and this time
Speaker 9: we were ready.
Speaker 10: Upfront, we blocked for guys like Mark Higgs, Ivy, Joel Hunter,
Speaker 10: and Andy Murray. On defense, we had Albert Barnette, Jerry Reese,
Speaker 10: Tony Massey, christianaut and a lot more.
Speaker 9: We shut them out. Kentucky twenty eight Ohio nothing a
Speaker 9: team effort top to bottom. The Wildcats need that today.
Speaker 9: Last week our defense was solid.
Speaker 2: Were done builders, thanks, going to drop and grow, getting harder,
Speaker 2: getting deep, growing, gell hands one in, good wait, great Hunne.
Speaker 9: And the offensive line opened hose all night.
Speaker 10: Blip coming avoid it and he's got a lot of
Speaker 10: rulers left the.
Speaker 2: Part time fifteen twenty five down up here the twenty
Speaker 2: two yard line short the gumps with the bull in
Speaker 2: and once they take it up, the whole side is
Speaker 2: open and Brocka is the part thing. It gets don
Speaker 2: after a heat bido.
Speaker 9: The Cats need another victory and the time is now wow.
Speaker 1: And of course everything went well for the Wildcats, as
Speaker 1: you might expected a game like that, totally overmatching Ohio You.
Speaker 1: It was a huge day for Rock vander Grip two
Speaker 1: hundred thirty seven yards passing, Demisumo, karn Bay with a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns. Jamerion Wilcox with a career high eighty
Speaker 1: two yards rushing, and he showed early that we could
Speaker 1: expect a lot from him. Some explosive plays.
Speaker 2: Hand off to will Cox sweeping right, has it out out,
Speaker 2: cross up, back out across the forty and he can't
Speaker 2: break away in there. And a big game for Jamry
Speaker 2: and will Cox, left, Brown and key to tight ends right,
Speaker 2: Caddis and Dingle hand off will cockspur and hit clips
Speaker 2: of tackle angles right twenty five uses the.
Speaker 8: Stiff arm, gets inside the twenty and out of bounds
Speaker 8: at the seventeen yard line.
Speaker 1: Wildcat's got a touchdown, and then Ohio you began to
Speaker 1: put together a drive and actually got into the red zone,
Speaker 1: but the Kentucky defense came a big. JJ Weaver recovering
Speaker 1: a fumble, takes the stat.
Speaker 2: Balls, knock loose ball. Then Kentucky's got it.
Speaker 8: Oh and then it pops out of JJ Weaver's hands
Speaker 8: and did Ohio get it back?
Speaker 11: JJ?
Speaker 2: No, Kat's got it.
Speaker 1: So the offense went back to work. Didn't look like
Speaker 1: it was going to do much until Vandergriff went to
Speaker 1: his favorite receiver.
Speaker 2: Vandergriff against a four man rush, rolling out to his right,
Speaker 2: fires back into the middle. He's got kid inside.
Speaker 8: Of the twenty there sideline ten Pearls. Tiler buckets down
Speaker 8: to the two yard line.
Speaker 2: Sidney but luck letting love Ronny.
Speaker 1: Would like that move, and after that it was Demi
Speaker 1: Sumo carne Bay covering the last couple of yards to
Speaker 1: give the Wildcats a seventeen to nothing lead. They would
Speaker 1: take into the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 2: Off the right hash mark, they give it to Subel
Speaker 2: karn Bay and he's got his second touchdown right up
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 1: Wildcats added a field goal in the third quarter. There
Speaker 1: was about five minutes left to go in the period.
Speaker 1: Maxwell Harston strikes again with a pick six that tied
Speaker 1: the UK school record. That was his third as a Wildcat.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be a pick six, Henni's Maxwell Harriston Tye
Speaker 8: dallasss with his third career pick six.
Speaker 1: Harriston was a preseason All Conference pick, and why not
Speaker 1: after the year he had last season, but spent much
Speaker 1: of this season on the sideline injured, one of the
Speaker 1: many reasons the Wildcats struggled this year. Wildcats kept scoring
Speaker 1: though against the Bobcats, Barry and Brown made the Jets
Speaker 1: sweep work and they.
Speaker 2: Give it on the jet sweep to Barry and Brown
Speaker 2: trying to get outside across the twenty gott An alley.
Speaker 8: At the tent at the fun touch Wow Kentucky that
Speaker 8: finally hit on the.
Speaker 2: Jets sweep around the left edge.
Speaker 12: Dum did that looked like those TVs were running in
Speaker 12: quicksand I mean they had him dead to rights and
Speaker 12: he just out ran up to the end zone.
Speaker 2: He hit the gas and it was goodbye.
Speaker 1: And the Wildcats added one more Gavin whims that took
Speaker 1: it in for his first touchdown as a Wildcat.
Speaker 2: On the two. Gotta keep it himself and he goes
Speaker 2: in standing up touchdown Kentucky, the first one for Holinsborough
Speaker 2: High Schools Gavin Whimson.
Speaker 1: So that meant the Wildcats were two and two, and
Speaker 1: most prognosticators really thought that at this point Kentucky would
Speaker 1: be three and one, because well most of us predicted
Speaker 1: win over South Carolina, seeing us how the game was
Speaker 1: here in Lexington. But as you know, South Carolina better
Speaker 1: than we thought it would be. That's why the Wildcats
Speaker 1: were two and two after their first four games heading
Speaker 1: into a trip to Oxford, Mississippi, and it looked as
Speaker 1: though the Rebels had put together a pretty good football team,
Speaker 1: which in fact they did, but the Wildcats pulled one out,
Speaker 1: and as I said earlier, if it hadn't been for
Speaker 1: one other game, it was a bit of a surprise,
Speaker 1: Kentucky would have dominated the headlines. But that was the
Speaker 1: same day Alabama beat Georgia, handed the Bulldogs their first
Speaker 1: conference loss in forever, forty one to thirty four, So
Speaker 1: that kind of nudge Kentucky's upset win down just to tick.
Speaker 1: When the talking heads across the country were going through
Speaker 1: the highlights, it was still a huge win for the Cats.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, we'll revisit it, as I
Speaker 1: have a melt for you. Yeah, we're going to relive
Speaker 1: all the highlights of the Kentucky Ole Miss game on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break here on this special
Speaker 1: edition of The Big bloom Siders six thirty wlap Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 1: This is an on edition of our football special, which
Speaker 1: of course included a full melt of the highlights of
Speaker 1: the upset of ole Miss that takes us to a
Speaker 1: trip to Oxford, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Did you know Kentucky has taken down top ten ole
Speaker 2: Miss teams in the past, including one in nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: nine quarterbacked by Archie Manny. The Kentucky quarterback was Bernie Scruggs.
Speaker 13: Back in nineteen sixty nine, nobody expected us to beat
Speaker 13: on Miss and we were playing in Stonefield. The Rebels
Speaker 13: were ranked ninth in the country. They opened the season
Speaker 13: with an easy win over Memphis State. The Wildcats. Well,
Speaker 13: we were coming in after a wild.
Speaker 1: One with Indiana.
Speaker 13: We put it up thirty points, usually good enough to win.
Speaker 13: Trouble is the who's you scored fifty eight? That's why
Speaker 13: Scuts were such underdogs when over Miss came to town.
Speaker 13: But believe it or not, we pulled off one of
Speaker 13: the biggest of sets in the history of UK football.
Speaker 13: The Rebels took an early in the second quarter on
Speaker 13: the field goal in a sixty four yard run by
Speaker 13: the great Archie Many, but our Dave Hunter blocked the
Speaker 13: extra point and that came up big down the stretch.
Speaker 13: In the third quarter, we were down nine to three
Speaker 13: in driving at the Old Miss twenty three, Houston Hogg
Speaker 13: made a big run for us.
Speaker 14: Later on the drive, Houston Hogg makes this fine. I
Speaker 14: put on a big third.
Speaker 9: Down play for Kentucky.
Speaker 14: He got the first down at the all.
Speaker 9: Miss six and then I was able to slip it
Speaker 9: to the end zone.
Speaker 2: Bernie Scruggs rolls out to take it in part of Kentucky.
Speaker 13: When Bobby Jones came in and kicked the crucial extra point.
Speaker 13: In the fourth quarter, we forced an ole miss funneled
Speaker 13: at the three yard line and picked off an Archie
Speaker 13: Manny pass. We held off for a ten to nine
Speaker 13: win over the Rebels, who would belong to win the
Speaker 13: Shigar Bowl, but that day belonged to the Wildcats. It
Speaker 13: can happen again today.
Speaker 2: Wow, good afternoon from Vought Hemingway Stadium on the campus
Speaker 2: of the University of mississip Be in Oxford. I'm Tom
Speaker 2: Lynch along with the former wildcad white out Jeff Pikoro,
Speaker 2: Dick Gabriel down on the side lines dark with a
Speaker 2: plate faith. Now he's pressured, moves up into the pocket,
Speaker 2: throws down the middle line over and he's got Harris,
Speaker 2: and he is going to get closer to the touchdown. No,
Speaker 2: he's down a one yard line first and goal to
Speaker 2: go for ole Miss at the one and all Parrish
Speaker 2: straight ahead.
Speaker 12: He got out all of this. That is just four
Speaker 12: defense right there. You're walking to the line of privage.
Speaker 12: Nobody was even ready for Kentucky and ole Miss just
Speaker 12: walked into the inZone.
Speaker 2: Vandergrim On a keeper, heads off to the right, gets
Speaker 2: across the thirty, breaks a tackle across the twenty five,
Speaker 2: still going, and knock out of bounds over on the
Speaker 2: far side at the twenty two yard line. It's eleven
Speaker 2: yards and another first down for Kentucky. Cabin into the
Speaker 2: game now. As Brock gets a brillier after that run
Speaker 2: fake by wim said, he goes straight ahead, breaks a
Speaker 2: couple of tackles, get us inside of nifty, and has
Speaker 2: a first down to the eleven yard line. Rainer twenty
Speaker 2: seven yarders. It's gonna be spotted at the Old Miss
Speaker 2: seventeen yard line to try to get Kentucky on the board.
Speaker 2: It's good, I'm thirteen left to play here. At the
Speaker 2: opening quarter, each team scores on its opening drive, but
Speaker 2: it's Old Miss seven in Kentucky three on the UK
Speaker 2: sports Edward Dart and empty backfield heading the football and
Speaker 2: he's out of the sacked.
Speaker 12: Nice if Tom Kentucky was playing when we call it
Speaker 12: cover seven, they're five hunder in two team and there
Speaker 12: was no place for Darden to throw him when he
Speaker 12: stepped up as swallowed him up.
Speaker 2: That brings the first quarter to an end. It's seven
Speaker 2: three rebels, third and seventh Kentucky showing blitz off the edges.
Speaker 2: They bring six. Dart in trouble dancing around and he
Speaker 2: sacked ea back of the forty one yard line. Dion
Speaker 2: Walker and Jamon Dumas Johnson drop him for a loss
Speaker 2: of five. Bill Hurst out for Kentucky. Vandergriff sliding left
Speaker 2: on the option makes the pitch Cosumo Karme's got grow
Speaker 2: him up the far. He has the first down cost
Speaker 2: out of bounds, out of the thirty one yard line
Speaker 2: after a game of fourteen yards. That's a new look
Speaker 2: and Kentucky makes it work. Dark play fake. He has
Speaker 2: throwing deep up the near sideline and it's broken up
Speaker 2: at the Kentucky forty yard line by Waller and Bryan.
Speaker 2: They were both there going step for step with Juice
Speaker 2: Wells in South Carolina.
Speaker 12: Transfer and there you see they you know, they take
Speaker 12: that deep shine again all the way down to the
Speaker 12: forty yard line where that ball came down, but no
Speaker 12: pressure on dark.
Speaker 2: Lander grip bakes it to Sumocarnbay quick throw into the middle.
Speaker 2: He's got key. First down into Ole Miss territory at
Speaker 2: the Rebels forty nine yard line.
Speaker 1: He picked up sixteen.
Speaker 2: Boy really liked dandy.
Speaker 12: He knows going over the middle he's gonna get clocked,
Speaker 12: but man, he has gotten some guts to do that.
Speaker 2: He comes right into the teeth of.
Speaker 12: The defense, finds it opening and Rock double clutches and
Speaker 12: puts it on the money.
Speaker 2: Two whiteouts right, one tight end each way for Vandergrift.
Speaker 2: Let's coming up the plaything. Vandergrid's setting deep fires into
Speaker 2: the middle of the Family's got key inside the Old
Speaker 2: Miss forty pulled down close to the thirty five yard
Speaker 2: line on the Rebels twenty four yard game.
Speaker 12: Turning in on the tackle again, Key gets inside the corner.
Speaker 2: A beautiful move to the post. Second down five the
Speaker 2: Ole Miss fifteen two tight ends right, two wideouts left
Speaker 2: hand off. Sumo Carba bounces it out left he's got
Speaker 2: space at the ten, cuts back right and drives his
Speaker 2: way down close to the five yard line. First down.
Speaker 2: Maybe it'll be first in Gold to go after a
Speaker 2: ten yard run by Demi Sumo Carnbay, but.
Speaker 12: Great blocking on the outside by Day Key could have held,
Speaker 12: but he did it. He stayed in front of his van,
Speaker 12: beautifully done. He'd love to get seven here instead of
Speaker 12: three numbers.
Speaker 2: Vander Griff fires into the middle, broke it up, Black
Speaker 2: Hunter down pass interfers. They were trying to get Key
Speaker 2: in the middle of the end zone, right under the
Speaker 2: Gold Boats, and they're gonna call holding first down, automatic
Speaker 2: first down either way. Seven penalties forty eight yards today
Speaker 2: whistled against Ole miss one for ten for Kentucky. Vandergrift
Speaker 2: play Fame retreating, throwing it to the back of the n.
Speaker 8: Zone, touch Toouchcasser tasty.
Speaker 2: K tracking the back line of the intone is Vandergriff
Speaker 2: just floaded it out there to him and Keith breached
Speaker 2: down and snatched it with two hands. The Wildcats are
Speaker 2: in front. Twenty seconds play in the hand, the trips
Speaker 2: to the left, one white out right dark for sure
Speaker 2: coming again. He shidy Oxen done, got it. Yep, big
Speaker 2: fella got a little ticked off. He just said, you
Speaker 2: won't call it. I'll just go get it. He did. Boy,
Speaker 2: loss of six back to the twenty ole miss out
Speaker 2: of timeouts. That's it. Kentucky is going to take the
Speaker 2: lead into the locker room at halftime on the home
Speaker 2: field of the number sixteen in the country, A Wildcat's ten,
Speaker 2: the old miss rebels seven and inspired first thirty minutes
Speaker 2: for Kentucky. Nick Gabriel is gonna catch up with coach
Speaker 2: Mark Students. Coach, I gotta think you love the pace
Speaker 2: of this game.
Speaker 1: You've really controlled it.
Speaker 11: We have controlled the pace of the game and both sides.
Speaker 11: Defense has to get stopped. We've been disruptive, we've covered well.
Speaker 11: As we talked about all week, the pace of play
Speaker 11: early got us and then we settled right in and offensively,
Speaker 11: it really kept us in the game controlling it. Obviously
Speaker 11: we knew we had to score there, but you know,
Speaker 11: so it's really important to get in the end zone.
Speaker 11: We got to continue to play aggressive. I went forward
Speaker 11: a couple of those fourth downs and you know, it's
Speaker 11: worked out.
Speaker 2: So you know, so far, so good. A big, big
Speaker 2: half here and the Wildcats take a ten to seven
Speaker 2: lead into the locker room here in Oxford. Two minutes
Speaker 2: gone in this third quarter, three and out for Kentucky
Speaker 2: and off the Paris straight ahead breaks away, got a
Speaker 2: big game in the Kentucky territory to the forty nine
Speaker 2: yard line, Jeff. They had it for a game of
Speaker 2: a yard or two. Yeah, they had a right at
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. But he just ran through two
Speaker 2: arm tackles. Jackson, Dart Hump Bake Rights. He is gonna
Speaker 2: run and left, and he is in trouble. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be hitting dropped for a loss Walker Dumas, Johnson time
Speaker 2: Bryan not fooled. They drop him for a loss of three,
Speaker 2: fourth and six, trying to tie the game with nine
Speaker 2: fifty four to play here in the third quarter, Suns
Speaker 2: back under the clouds now here in Oxford. It's that
Speaker 2: way up high and it's good and the game is tied.
Speaker 2: Old Mits ten and Kentucky ten. Bandergriff receivers each way,
Speaker 2: fakes left, throws rights, complete the key. Thirty five forty
Speaker 2: breaks through a tackle up the far sideline, out of
Speaker 2: bounds up at the Kentucky forty six yard line. Twenty
Speaker 2: one yard game. They give it to Wilcox running left,
Speaker 2: got an alley across the fifty forty five, runs over
Speaker 2: a tackler, knocks an old list defender. Back goes inside
Speaker 2: the forty to the rebels thirty seven yard line. Donnery
Speaker 2: finally made the tackle on him a game of seventeen,
Speaker 2: so it'll be a forty eight yard field goal attempt.
Speaker 2: Or Rainer, I'm gonna pull this back to the left
Speaker 2: a little bit. He'said already from twenty seven today on
Speaker 2: you a leg. It's good. Thirteen in a row. Kentucky
Speaker 2: retakes the lead with six thirty one to play in
Speaker 2: the third Kentucky thirteen ull Miss ten on the UK
Speaker 2: Sports Network, fourth and seven, two receivers each Way or
Speaker 2: Dart coming down to the end of the third quarter,
Speaker 2: Blitz coming. Dart throws it into the middle and his
Speaker 2: pack for the first down, and it's a lot more.
Speaker 2: Harris running through the middle of the defense, cuts left.
Speaker 2: You'll go in for the touchdown. Kentucky brought everybody and
Speaker 2: all out. Blitz Ole Miss picks it up Harris on
Speaker 2: a deep slam the catch, and I don't know that
Speaker 2: anybody ever touched it. Forty seven yard touchdown pass on
Speaker 2: fourth and seven.
Speaker 12: Well, when you give it up like that, you've got
Speaker 12: to get on your guy. And he was wide open,
Speaker 12: streaking right through the middle of the field of post pattern,
Speaker 12: if you will, skinny pose. And once they picked up
Speaker 12: the Polinz Dart was able to pat it and then
Speaker 12: fire it right.
Speaker 2: To em and and that kid when he gets in
Speaker 2: the open field, you can get about ten seconds to
Speaker 2: play the third quarter and ole Miss goes back in
Speaker 2: front here at Oscar seventeen to thirteen on a forty
Speaker 2: eight yard touchdown pass on fourth and seven, So fourth
Speaker 2: and ems from its own nineteen Mark stoops, pushing the
Speaker 2: chips to the center of the table. The four h
Speaker 2: four to play, trailing seventeen thirteen. They don't make it.
Speaker 2: Ole misses and Minimum starts in field goal range. Vander
Speaker 2: Grip drops, let's coming. He's throwing it up the far
Speaker 2: sideline and it's god Brown at the thirty four. He
Speaker 2: stayed himself. He comes back across the near side of
Speaker 2: the thirty and to twenty down of the seventeen yard
Speaker 2: line of Old Miss wanna throw. Vander Griff dropped it
Speaker 2: in and right into the hands of Brown streaking down
Speaker 2: the left side. There's the chunk play you were looking for.
Speaker 2: And Ivy is down back.
Speaker 12: In the fifteen yard line. He started to run up
Speaker 12: the field and he just fell down. He's gonna give
Speaker 12: the team a blow. But Kentucky has an inside the
Speaker 12: red zone. Now, wow, he tiptoed the sidelines top stadium
Speaker 12: bounds and got himself an extra ten or twelve yards.
Speaker 2: Sixty two yards on the completion to Baryon Brown. As
Speaker 2: the Cats are back in the red zone, first and ten,
Speaker 2: Kentucky just inside the left hash mark of the old
Speaker 2: miss seventeen yard line. They give it the Sumo Carbay
Speaker 2: bouncing that left. He's got room fifteen ten carry us
Speaker 2: a tackler for a first down to the six yard line. Wimsen.
Speaker 2: Now the quarterbacks will Carnvay to his left. Whimsit on
Speaker 2: a keeper running left at the five, drops his shoulder,
Speaker 2: caps to the two bubble the football did it go
Speaker 2: into the Enzo touchdown? Kentucky on the recovery in the
Speaker 2: enzoe trying to see who got it. Cattis Josh Cattis
Speaker 2: recover the ball. It popped down of Wimsit at the two.
Speaker 2: It went right to Canis in the end zone. Kentucky
Speaker 2: twenty oh Miss seventeen with two twenty five to play
Speaker 2: in the game. Here in Oxford, Mississippi dart set Steve
Speaker 2: stunted up front, Ole Miss kicks it up. He scrambles
Speaker 2: off to the right, throws it deep into the middle
Speaker 2: of the field. Life and good damn what you mother? Time?
Speaker 8: Kay raise corn Christen story, Christen's story got lost?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Makes the catch at the Kentucky
Speaker 2: thirty four yard line. You got, Kayden Davis. The ball's
Speaker 2: gonna be spotted just shine of the thirty nine yard
Speaker 2: line of Kentucky. Just get big, boys. We'll call this
Speaker 2: a forty nine yard field goal attempt off the right
Speaker 2: Hashmark Davis is a right footed kicker, so we have
Speaker 2: to pull this back to the left a little bit
Speaker 2: to try and tie the game. With fifty three seconds left,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a low stap and they get
Speaker 2: it down. Kicks on the way, No, not holdly forty
Speaker 2: eight seconds to play, an old Miss comes up empty. Yes,
Speaker 2: how about that? The sideline's FD and Mark Stokes in
Speaker 2: is Kentucky Wildcats have shot the comments foot more worldt
Speaker 2: it go? Bubba a miracle in the Magnolia State. We're
Speaker 2: Kentucky Wildcats twenty the Old Miss Rebels seventeen.
Speaker 1: More to come in I Remember two. This special Christmas
Speaker 1: edition of the best of the Big Boone Sider, we
Speaker 1: look back on those elusive football highlights from the season
Speaker 1: here on six thirty w dolap. Merry Christmas, everybody, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to our number two of the Big Blue Insider,
Speaker 1: an encore presentation of our football special. When we look
Speaker 1: back on some of the highlights, there were some not
Speaker 1: nearly enough from this past football season, as well as
Speaker 1: the upset win over Old Miss, which you just heard
Speaker 1: about in our number one. But we also look back
Speaker 1: on what we call the celebrity monologues that opened our
Speaker 1: broadcast this past season. Sad to say, too many times
Speaker 1: that ended up being the best highlight of the broadcast.
Speaker 1: After the Old Miss victory, the Wildcats were home with Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be a win for Kentucky. Of course,
Speaker 1: as you know, it didn't work out that way, but
Speaker 1: it started with a great performance by a former Wildcat,
Speaker 1: former Kentucky defensive back Van Hiles.
Speaker 15: In nineteen ninety six, our season was heading in the
Speaker 15: wrong direction. We lost six off first seven games before
Speaker 15: we current things around in a big way.
Speaker 2: Quarterback Van Hiles, arguably one of the best players on
Speaker 2: Kentucky's defense.
Speaker 15: We started forcing turnovers. In fact, we finished second in
Speaker 15: the SEC that year and seventeenth.
Speaker 5: In the country.
Speaker 2: Van Hiles off the job.
Speaker 15: We put it together in late October with an upset
Speaker 15: of the Georgia Bulldogs. The next week more Bulldogs, we
Speaker 15: knocked off Mississippi State and then came Van.
Speaker 2: We mentioned Van Hiles one of our standing job he
Speaker 2: is gone.
Speaker 1: At corner.
Speaker 15: We had lost five straight to the commodore We needed
Speaker 15: something good. That happened, and it did.
Speaker 2: We shut them out.
Speaker 15: It was twenty five to nothing, our third straight SEC win.
Speaker 15: We picked off two passes and forced the pumber at the.
Speaker 2: Camp stopped after twenty yard line.
Speaker 15: The Commodore's are confident after that upset win over Alabama.
Speaker 2: Vandert takes down number one Alabama.
Speaker 15: But our Wildcats up coming off a big win of
Speaker 15: there on two weeks ago at Old Myth.
Speaker 2: The sidelines ept in Mark STOKESI is Kentucky Wildcats have
Speaker 2: shut the college football world. I'd go bulla.
Speaker 15: We're won eight of the last ten over Bandy and
Speaker 15: it's time to slam the doors again tonight.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: But as you know, it didn't work out that way.
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt would win six games this season, including a huge
Speaker 1: upset win over Alabama, first in the history of the school,
Speaker 1: and the Wildcats just could not generate much offense. They did, though,
Speaker 1: managed to drive for a touchdown down seven to nothing
Speaker 1: early in the second quarter. Got a TV from Demisumocarnbay,
Speaker 1: Andy Griff.
Speaker 2: Out of the shotguns, set back right Atsumo Karna who
Speaker 2: gets the call touchdown Kentucky. Following Eli Coxon Jaggerbert.
Speaker 1: What Kentucky gave up a touchdown at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half, trail fourteen to seven, gave up two
Speaker 1: more field goals to fall behind twenty to seven before
Speaker 1: the Cats put together a long drive rock Vandergriff finding
Speaker 1: Fonte Key from twenty two yards out.
Speaker 2: Falling the left Hashpark. Now Here comes Keith in motion
Speaker 2: to the slot of the near side, so trip right
Speaker 2: for Vandergriff, who was done upfront. Five man rush throw
Speaker 2: into the middle of the field. It's caught by Key,
Speaker 2: touchdown Kentucky right down the seam on the right side that.
Speaker 1: Made it twenty thirteen. Kentucky blew the extra point, never
Speaker 1: got the ball back close enough to get it into
Speaker 1: the end zone, and the final was the Wildcats falling
Speaker 1: to the Commodores by seven. After that was the trip
Speaker 1: to Florida, and this one was frustrating because the Gators
Speaker 1: were struggling at the time. They had quarterback issues. DJ
Speaker 1: Lagaway was the new starter because ram Mertz was injured
Speaker 1: and out for the rest of the year for Lagway,
Speaker 1: a freshman, but Kentucky just made too many mistakes, did
Speaker 1: make a lot of big plays. Wildcats were in the
Speaker 1: game in the latter stages, but just couldn't quite hold
Speaker 1: it together. We turned to a Florida native who had
Speaker 1: played well against those Gators in a couple of victories
Speaker 1: during his Kentucky career, former UK offensive lineman Kenneth Horsey.
Speaker 2: Kentucky has dominated the series with Florida in recent years,
Speaker 2: and the reversal form began in twenty eighteen. The Cats
Speaker 2: won that night at the Swamp and ended a long
Speaker 2: losing streak to Florida. Offensive lineman Kenneth Horsey was a
Speaker 2: freshman on that team.
Speaker 6: In twenty eighteen, we went to Gainesville to play the Gators.
Speaker 6: Back then, Kentucky had lost thirty one straight to Florida.
Speaker 6: But we were tired of here and all that, so
Speaker 6: we did something about it.
Speaker 2: Poor man Russias Wilson setska throw looking down field, throwing
Speaker 2: down field, touchdown Kentucky. David Booby ad.
Speaker 6: The Gators led by three at half, but after that
Speaker 6: it was all wild Cats.
Speaker 2: Fabian flitzing off the edge of stranks dropped to throw
Speaker 2: down here they come up and then on a.
Speaker 6: Towny of Fact touchdown Terry Wilson was incredible.
Speaker 2: Wilson takes the pitch on a keeper at the twenty
Speaker 2: at the fifteen ten five touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 6: He ran for a touchdown and brew for two more.
Speaker 2: He is throwing deep. Bote's out there, got it tuck
Speaker 2: down Kentucky.
Speaker 6: Our defense hut him down in the second half and
Speaker 6: even scored a touchdown on the last place with them mentioned.
Speaker 2: He's head as he throws it flutters incomplete with five
Speaker 2: seconds to plage touchdown Kentucky. Devonte Robinson I think, was
Speaker 2: who picked that ball up, and they signaled touchdown for Kentucky.
Speaker 2: After further reviewing the ruling on the field of a
Speaker 2: fumble is confirmed. The streak is over. After thirty one
Speaker 2: long games, the streak ends.
Speaker 6: The streak was over, and now we've won four to
Speaker 6: the last six, including three straight.
Speaker 2: We need to make it four in a row tonight.
Speaker 1: In the one Wow, Kentucky held Florida to a couple
Speaker 1: of field goals before the Wildcat offense got kicked in
Speaker 1: the gear on the flea flicker Vandergriff and Barry and
Speaker 1: Brown forty five yards out.
Speaker 2: Two white outs, left tight end in a wide out
Speaker 2: to the right, new Anderson going in motion right. They
Speaker 2: give it to s flee flicker Brown's wide open touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 2: The fleet flicker works perfectly for the Cats.
Speaker 1: Great call by bush Ham Dan, perfectly executed by Brown
Speaker 1: and Vandergriff, really by everybody but Kentucky mishandles the snap
Speaker 1: on the try for the extra point, and it's tied
Speaker 1: at six apiece. In the second quarter, Wildcats with a
Speaker 1: defensive highlight. Second player of Florida drive UK's Christian Story
Speaker 1: picks off Lagway and returns the ball sixty three yards
Speaker 1: to the eleven yard line.
Speaker 2: Like Wayne, dropping the throw into the middle of the
Speaker 2: field and its stepped it by Kentucky coming the other
Speaker 2: way across the floor. Its story across the Florida forty,
Speaker 2: across the thirty, cuts left at the twenty, boks through
Speaker 2: a tangle and gets down to the ten yard line.
Speaker 1: You know, I love the way Tom calls touchdowns. Everybody does,
Speaker 1: but I think a close second is the way he
Speaker 1: calls interception because they're so sudden and so welcome. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this particular interception didn't lead to any points and the
Speaker 1: Gators took over. They were actually able to drive for
Speaker 1: a touchdown and let it twenty to six. Late in
Speaker 1: the half, they added another touchdown. I go have twenty
Speaker 1: seven to six, but Burying Brown took the ensuing kickoff
Speaker 1: ninety nine yards.
Speaker 2: The kick is high, but it's not going to make
Speaker 2: the end zone. Brown fields that at the goal one.
Speaker 2: It's up the numbers on the right side. At the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five thirty cuts right, tries to get outside
Speaker 2: cuts back to the left. He's got an alley across
Speaker 2: the fifties, still upright across the thirty. Across the twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen ten to five touchdown, Kentucky, Barry and Brown get
Speaker 2: six back.
Speaker 1: Well, I made it twenty seven to thirteen. That was
Speaker 1: your halftime score. Kentucky actually came out and put pressure
Speaker 1: on the Gators. Gavin wimsed moving the Wildcats to a
Speaker 1: touchdown and it was twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 2: Midway through the third quarter, block ticking at eight forty five,
Speaker 2: second and goal at the one. It's still wimset up
Speaker 2: the controls. He takes the snap, he's gonna run it,
Speaker 2: lowers his head and dives across signal. Touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 1: But that was as close as the Wildcats could get,
Speaker 1: and Kentucky had fallen in Gainesville by a final of
Speaker 1: forty eight to twenty. After that, when the Cats came
Speaker 1: home to take on Auburn, and Kentucky hasn't played Auburn
Speaker 1: a lot, hasn't beaten Auburn in quite a while. But
Speaker 1: in fact, we went to a guy who helped quarterback
Speaker 1: the Wildcats to a victory on the road at Auburn
Speaker 1: back in the Rich Brooks era. Morgan Newton opened the
Speaker 1: broadcast for him.
Speaker 2: The last time Kentucky beat Auburn was two thousand and
Speaker 2: nine on the Tigers home field. Game came a week
Speaker 2: after starting QB Mike Hartline went down with an injury,
Speaker 2: and Morgan Newton, a freshman, took the controls with some
Speaker 2: help from Randall Common Will Findler.
Speaker 16: There haven't been many wins for my Wildcats over the
Speaker 16: Auburn Tigers, but the game I like to remember happened
Speaker 16: in twenty oh nine. The Wildcats were struggling when we
Speaker 16: went down to the plane. We had lost three straight,
Speaker 16: each one to a top twenty five team, so we
Speaker 16: decided to turn things around. Auburn jumped out to an
Speaker 16: early league. The Cats came back behind three different quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: It was like we took turnerment first down at ten
Speaker 2: Newton the sky.
Speaker 16: In the second quarter, I ran one in.
Speaker 15: For a touchdown.
Speaker 2: How the Wildcasts rising their Crestsman's quarterbacks.
Speaker 16: Morgan Newton scores in the second half while our defense
Speaker 16: was busy completely shutting out the Tigers.
Speaker 2: Will Fidler got one too.
Speaker 12: Findler's gotta keeping him sut touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 16: And with the score tie three minutes to play, Randall
Speaker 16: Cobb ripped off an explosive line and then out of
Speaker 16: the Wildcat formation, he scored the winning touchdown.
Speaker 2: To Tucky.
Speaker 16: That's right, three Kentucky quarterbacks scored that night as we
Speaker 16: upset the Tigers on their home field. Now they're on
Speaker 16: our curve and we need to take them down tonight.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 1: In hindsight, this was one of the most frustrating losses.
Speaker 2: Of the year.
Speaker 1: This came in a three game swing where the Wildcats
Speaker 1: had a shot at wins at all of them Vanderbilt, Florida,
Speaker 1: and Auburn. Some of us at Kentucky would get at
Speaker 1: least two out of three. The most optimistic people thought
Speaker 1: the Wildcats could take all three of those games going
Speaker 1: into Knoxville. Of course, as we know now, Cats didn't
Speaker 1: win any of them, but Vandy was a surprise. Yes, Florida,
Speaker 1: it's always going to be tough in Gainesville. But I
Speaker 1: really believe that with Auburn struggling the way it was,
Speaker 1: that Kentucky would get the Tigers and kind of right itself.
Speaker 1: But the Wildcats wasted. A really good performance by Dane
Speaker 1: Key four catches eighty seven yards. Defense did a great
Speaker 1: job until it just kind of ran out of steam.
Speaker 1: The Wildcats with six tackles for loss, including four sacks
Speaker 1: Jordan Loved at nine tackles. Jam and Dumas Johnson had
Speaker 1: eight tackles, including his sack. The one thing they could
Speaker 1: not do, though, was keep joh Quest Hunter from running
Speaker 1: over and through the Cats. He had twenty three carries
Speaker 1: for two hundred and seventy eight yards, including a fifty
Speaker 1: yard run and a pair of touchdowns. Meanwhile, the Kentucky
Speaker 1: offense just wasn't getting much of anything done. Auburn with
Speaker 1: twenty seven first downs, three hundred and twenty six net
Speaker 1: yards rushing and another one seventy two through the air,
Speaker 1: and Wildcats only thirteen first downs two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: four total offensive yards. That means Hunter out gained single
Speaker 1: handedly outgained the Kentucky offense, an Auburn team that went
Speaker 1: on to be five and seven, and a Kentucky team
Speaker 1: that desperately needed a win but just couldn't make anything
Speaker 1: happening on that one. So what that meant was Kentucky
Speaker 1: going into the Tennessee game with all kinds of injuries,
Speaker 1: had lost three straight. After the upset win overall, miss
Speaker 1: Wildcats lose to Vandy, Florida and Auburn, So we thought
Speaker 1: Knoxville might get ugly, but it was just the opposite.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on the other side of the
Speaker 1: break here on The Big Blue Insider six thirty WLAP
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Christmas edition of The Big Blue
Speaker 1: Insider encore presentation of our look back at the Kentucky
Speaker 1: football season that included not nearly enough UK highlights, but
Speaker 1: some great performances from celebrities, former players, and coaches to
Speaker 1: open up our broadcasts each week. It was a banged
Speaker 1: up Kentucky team to travel to Tennessee, and not many
Speaker 1: Wildcat fans were optimistic because this was a volunteer squad
Speaker 1: that was putting together a pretty good season. With all
Speaker 1: the holes in the Kentucky lineup. Out of Kentucky fans,
Speaker 1: media as well, we all braced ourselves for what might
Speaker 1: be a beat down, and we had seen a few
Speaker 1: of those in Knoxville, but we had seen Kentucky as
Speaker 1: well be competitive with Tennessee, and that's exactly what we
Speaker 1: saw that night. In fact, Kentucky made a statement on
Speaker 1: the very first play, but not before our broadcast was
Speaker 1: opened by the widow of the late great Kentucky offensive
Speaker 1: line coach John Schlarman.
Speaker 2: As good as John Schlarmon was as a player, he
Speaker 2: may have been a better coach in the o line.
Speaker 2: He walked the sidelines for the final time here in
Speaker 2: Knoxville four years ago as alma mater do something it
Speaker 2: had not done since nineteen eighty four. They beat the Falls.
Speaker 2: Here's Leanne Schlarmer.
Speaker 5: When Kentucky plays the Big Orange today at Knoxville, it
Speaker 5: will bring back happy memories of the day. The Walkats
Speaker 5: scored one of their greatest wins over Tennessee and dedicated
Speaker 5: the win to my husband John. The UK defense stole
Speaker 5: the first two touchdown.
Speaker 2: He looks righty to dinner set PA's could be a
Speaker 2: pick six. Hit the whole way, Joseph to five touchdown.
Speaker 2: Kentucky fires over the middle eighty six, said Davis at
Speaker 2: the twenty.
Speaker 8: Cuts left, gets up left ten stuggling.
Speaker 2: Falls into the ends on touch down. Kentucky. Who my goodness.
Speaker 5: Then they turned the game over to the offense and
Speaker 5: the big Blue Wall that day made coach Sliman proud
Speaker 5: along with the rest of the BBN.
Speaker 2: The Gibda Rodriguez running left, he hesitates and follers his
Speaker 2: way in touchdown. Kentucky. Let's tackle.
Speaker 5: Kentucky beat Tennessee and Knoxville for the first time since
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty four. Later on, in a noisy UK locker room,
Speaker 5: the game ball went to the man who inspired the
Speaker 5: Wildcats that day, John Schlarman, own job.
Speaker 2: Guys, you come together. Nobody could stop.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Wow.
Speaker 1: The response to that piece on social media was tremendous,
Speaker 1: and John Schlarman would have been proud of the way
Speaker 1: the Wildcats played that night, despite being down so many
Speaker 1: injured teammates. Kentucky fought from the opening.
Speaker 2: Play, Brown in motion, left hand off Willcox, Damn big hole,
Speaker 2: cuts right and it's a foot race down to their sideline.
Speaker 2: Across the forty, across the thirty, it's a Marion Willcox
Speaker 2: has pushed out of bounds at the Tennessee twenty seven
Speaker 2: yard line by the last line of a defense, Andre Turrantine.
Speaker 1: The Wildcats moved all the way to the Tennessee five
Speaker 1: five yard line, but once again stalled in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Didn't get any points, but Kentucky did take.
Speaker 2: The early lead.
Speaker 1: With about five minutes left to play in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: it was Brock vander Riff finding Josh Kattis who made
Speaker 1: a terrific play from twenty seven yards away.
Speaker 2: Empty backfield tight end Rice Vandergriff quick throw it to
Speaker 2: the millis, got Cannis across the tent, across the five,
Speaker 2: touchdown Kentucky. He bounced off the tackle attempt inside the five,
Speaker 2: and Josh Cannis puts Kentucky on the board first.
Speaker 1: Vaulves would tie the game. Kentucky retook the lead at
Speaker 1: ten to seven, but eventually Tennessee led at twenty one
Speaker 1: to ten in the third quarter, but that's when Gavin
Speaker 1: Wimsen came on for the injured Rock Vandergrift and led
Speaker 1: Kentucky on a seventy five yard six play touchdown drive.
Speaker 1: Kentucky cut it to three points. Just inside the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Wimbsit throwing down the far sideline, He catch it, cut it,
Speaker 2: touchdown goodness Jimry Macklin over the shoulder of a Tennessee
Speaker 2: defender and right into the hands of Macklin. With thirteen
Speaker 2: thirty one to play in the fourth quarter, at Kentucky
Speaker 2: get seven back or get six back quickly, but.
Speaker 1: That was as close as Kentucky could get, the Wildcats
Speaker 1: finally succoming twenty eight to eighteen down in Knoxville. After
Speaker 1: that came an open date, and the Wildcats made good
Speaker 1: use of it, with all the injured players. Next on
Speaker 1: the schedule was Murray State, which still competes at essentially
Speaker 1: the old one DOUBLEA level FCS and under new management,
Speaker 1: the Racers are trying to rebuild, but quite frankly, they're
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in MBV, worst at the
Speaker 1: FCS level. Wildcats were able to get well physically and emotionally.
Speaker 1: The guy who opened it up for us played against
Speaker 1: the Racers not too long ago.
Speaker 2: Kentucky and Murray State last played in twenty eighteen. The
Speaker 2: Cats won decisively after a bit of a slow start.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we should have seen that coming, since the Cats
Speaker 2: were coming off that win at Florida that ended a
Speaker 2: long losing streak. Here's Cash Daniel.
Speaker 14: When we hosted Murray State back in twenty eighteen, we
Speaker 14: were rolling. We had just come back from an upset
Speaker 14: win at Florida when we snapped that ugly thirty one
Speaker 14: game losing street. Some people thought we might not be
Speaker 14: ready for the Racers.
Speaker 7: No chance.
Speaker 14: We came out firing and our quarterback lit the fuse.
Speaker 14: Terry Wilson broke one for forty two yards and our
Speaker 14: first touchdown.
Speaker 2: Wilson with a play fake and he's sitting up deep,
Speaker 2: looking down the middle of the field. Then he's gonna
Speaker 2: pull it down and run straight ahead across the forty breaks,
Speaker 2: attack across the thirty wide open cuts left of the tent.
Speaker 2: He'll go in standing up touchdown Chittucky touch down Terry
Speaker 2: Wilson and Benny Snell.
Speaker 14: Well, he just couldn't be stopped to give.
Speaker 2: It to snail straight ahead at the five breaks away
Speaker 2: to the one, turns it in touchdown Kentucky. Benny Snell
Speaker 2: Junior and the deep. Yeah, we had some fun too.
Speaker 14: We were deep and talented, including a guy who'd go
Speaker 14: on to win a Curple super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Range swing pass nearside, can steal tackle, win a loss,
Speaker 2: Mike Edgars ridd It flew down all to make the
Speaker 2: stunt for a loss of five on the completion.
Speaker 14: We rolled over the racers back then, and we need
Speaker 14: to do it again to day at Kroger Field.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 1: And as you might expect, the wildcatch raced off to
Speaker 1: a great start, beginning with defense.
Speaker 2: Johansson rolling out to his right and he throws and
Speaker 2: it's intercepted. Love It down at the thirty two yard line.
Speaker 2: Jordan love It picks it off.
Speaker 1: And the offense took over with a spectacular play from
Speaker 1: Rock Vandergriff to a freshman receiver.
Speaker 2: Pumps throwing deep. He's looking for Hartley Gilmour and it's
Speaker 2: called foot touchdown. Goodness. It went right through the hands
Speaker 2: of a Murray State defender k von Reid and right
Speaker 2: into the hands of Hardley for a touchdown. His first
Speaker 2: one as a Wildcat is going to be especially memorable.
Speaker 1: The offense would add a field goal, another touchdown, and
Speaker 1: the defense came through again.
Speaker 2: Drops to throw fires into the middle. It's flipped up
Speaker 2: into the air, tapping, intercepted by Kentucky love It. Love
Speaker 2: It got another one off the deflection of the Murray
Speaker 2: State receiver. Pops up into the air and love It
Speaker 2: tips it to himself and intercepts it at the nine
Speaker 2: yard line to thwart the drive by the.
Speaker 1: Racers, and the offense took advantage, this time Vandergriff throwing
Speaker 1: to a veteran receiver.
Speaker 2: Vandergriff drops, he is looking left. He throw it to
Speaker 2: the far side and it's caught touchdown in the back
Speaker 2: left corner of the end zone. Jamoori Backland well thrown
Speaker 2: ballt dropped it right over the defender that.
Speaker 1: Made a twenty four to nothing halftime. Kentucky came out
Speaker 1: with its first drive in the third period, wins seventy
Speaker 1: five yards for a score.
Speaker 2: They handed off to Wilcox's spin and stretches touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 2: He got hit at the three and he spun and
Speaker 2: stretched the ball out across the goal line. Well done.
Speaker 1: Late in the game, Cutter Bully made an appearance. We
Speaker 1: thought we would see him, and he actually threw a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdown passes to the same receiver.
Speaker 2: Bully holding the ball, fires Man wide open at the five,
Speaker 2: slips a tackle, touchdown Kentucky. Anthony Brown Stevens on fourth
Speaker 2: and one from the twenty two yard line, two receivers
Speaker 2: each way. Rodriguez on the hashmark to the right, Bully
Speaker 2: looking left, he guns it caught touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 1: And once again it was Anthony Brown Stevenson. Cutter Bully
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun that day. So did the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: They went at forty eight to six. Kentucky needed something
Speaker 1: good to happen, and of course it did, but it
Speaker 1: had to expect that in a game like that. Now.
Speaker 1: The following week, the Wildcats went to Austin, Texas, and
Speaker 1: with Rock Vanderriff banged up, it was Cutter bowleye who
Speaker 1: got to start against the Longhorns. Well, come back and
Speaker 1: tell you all about that one on the other side
Speaker 1: of the break here on this special edition of The
Speaker 1: Big Blu Insider six point thirty WAP. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Big Bluinsider. Hoping you're having a great Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: and we thought we would share with you an encore
Speaker 1: presentation of our look back at the Kentucky football season.
Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have moved up to
Speaker 1: the trip the Wildcats made to Texas down in Austin.
Speaker 1: The casts played back in the fifties down there, so
Speaker 1: this was their first trip in modern times. And again
Speaker 1: the Wildcats were kind of limping through the tail end
Speaker 1: of the season and they ran into a Texas team
Speaker 1: that at the time was fighting and still is for
Speaker 1: a shot at the national championship. Before the game began,
Speaker 1: we opened the broadcast with a monologue from a Kentucky
Speaker 1: fan who lives in Austin now, Josh Hopkins, the son
Speaker 1: of the late Congressman Larry Hopkins. We prevailed upon him
Speaker 1: to open things up for us, and as you might
Speaker 1: expect an actor did a pretty good job with the script.
Speaker 2: There's one Kentucky fan living here in Texas who believes
Speaker 2: that Cats can shock the college football world today, and
Speaker 2: it's not an act. Here's Lexington native and actor Josh Hopkins.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for the Wildcats to get to Austin.
Speaker 2: My Wildcats now.
Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong, Austin is.
Speaker 2: A great place to live. But I missed the Cats
Speaker 2: and they looked good last week. They handed off to Wilcox,
Speaker 2: spins and stretches touchdown Kentucky to wait. He got hit
Speaker 2: at the three and he spun and stretched the ball
Speaker 2: out across the goal line. Well, it was a feel good.
Speaker 16: Game, I mean, just what we all needed, the players
Speaker 16: and the fans.
Speaker 2: Vandergrift drops, he is looking less, but he throw it
Speaker 2: to the far side and it's cot touchdown. Offense was
Speaker 2: explosively holding the ball. Fires Man wide open at the five,
Speaker 2: swips a tackle, touchdown Kentucky. Anthony Brown Stevens a fourth
Speaker 2: and one of the twenty two yard line defense made
Speaker 2: plays all day. Johansson rolling out to his right and
Speaker 2: he throws and it's intercepted. Love it down at the
Speaker 2: thirty two yard line. Jordan love It picks it off,
Speaker 2: and now we take on the mighty long Hoards and
Speaker 2: they're good.
Speaker 1: We've got a real shot.
Speaker 2: I got a bunch of Longhorn friends here, and all
Speaker 2: I hear about is the burnt orange.
Speaker 12: Well, I'd like to turn this down blue, big blue.
Speaker 1: It was a warm day and a packed house down
Speaker 1: in Austin. The atmosphere was incredible. And of course this
Speaker 1: is a Texas team that is still in the running
Speaker 1: for a national championship, so every game vital. And that's
Speaker 1: the way the Longhorns played. In fact, they took that
Speaker 1: opening kickoff and marched to a touchdown, putting the Wildcats
Speaker 1: behind seven to nothing. But Kentucky opened up with a
Speaker 1: big player in its first play, eighteen yard run by
Speaker 1: will Cox. Couldn't get much done until late first half,
Speaker 1: early set or late first quarter early second quarter, after
Speaker 1: the defense had stopped a pair of Texas drives, Kentucky
Speaker 1: put together a drive of his own nine plays, seventy
Speaker 1: three yards. The biggest play of the drive was Vandergrift
Speaker 1: to Macklin for forty two yards.
Speaker 2: Now soon will Karbay coming back in motion left four
Speaker 2: man rush Vandergriff getting pressure, scrambles.
Speaker 8: Right Rose He's got Taxlan open, makes the Cats. He's
Speaker 8: across the twenty, inside the fifteenth, out of bounds. It'll
Speaker 8: be first down Kentucky in the red zone, powered by
Speaker 8: Toyota at the Texas twelve yard line.
Speaker 1: The final four yards Brock Vandergrift to Josh Katis, who
Speaker 1: made a terrific play.
Speaker 2: Fourth down the season, Kentucky nine for twenty.
Speaker 8: He sprint up to the line. Vandergriff playfake looking right,
Speaker 8: man's not open.
Speaker 2: He retreats. He throws touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 8: Josh Cannis nice catch chocks.
Speaker 1: He made a tumbling grab in the end zone that
Speaker 1: tied the game at seven apiece. Unfortunately, the rest of
Speaker 1: the half belonged to the long Horns. They let it
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. Late in the half, Rock Vandergriff
Speaker 1: was sacked, ended up being injured and was not able
Speaker 1: to go in the second half, so Cutter Bowley started
Speaker 1: for the Wildcats in the third period. His first play
Speaker 1: from scrimmage, sacked for a loss of thirteen. Defender came
Speaker 1: clean and crushed him. Very next play, he drops back
Speaker 1: and looks deep.
Speaker 2: Bully drops into the end zone. He has thrown deep
Speaker 2: up to the near sideline.
Speaker 8: He's got brown up and pulls it in and stumbles
Speaker 8: out of bounds up near midfield.
Speaker 1: A couple plays later, it was bully again to Macklin
Speaker 1: for thirty eight yards, which would have taken Kentucky down
Speaker 1: to the twelve yard line, but the Wildcats were called
Speaker 1: for holding, so they had to punt it away. Later
Speaker 1: on in the quarter, Texas made a mistake and the
Speaker 1: Wildcats capitalized.
Speaker 2: Yours leaves it with flute ball fumbled away. Kentucky's got
Speaker 2: it at the Texas thirty two yard.
Speaker 1: Line, so now the momentum was starting to shift toward
Speaker 1: the Wildcats, and from the Texas thirty two cutter Bowley
Speaker 1: goes deep down the right sideline to Rodriguez, who makes
Speaker 1: the catch at the Texas twelve, carries it to the
Speaker 1: seven yard line. On first down, Wilcox picks up six
Speaker 1: yards from the one. He loses two yards on third down,
Speaker 1: Bowlie sacked for a loss of twelve. Wildcats going backwards,
Speaker 1: but they line up for a field goal by the
Speaker 1: reliable Alex Rayner, but he missed his only miss of
Speaker 1: the year from thirty three yards out, and Kentucky gets
Speaker 1: nothing out of the turn and over, but on the
Speaker 1: very next possession for Texas, the Longhorns on their own
Speaker 1: thirty one yard line made another mistake. This time the
Speaker 1: Wildcats made them pay.
Speaker 2: Crystal formation play fake viewers, balls.
Speaker 8: Close, Kentuchy go down Thumas Johnson touchdown. Kentucky defenses, We'll do.
Speaker 6: It for you.
Speaker 8: It popped right into his hands after was dislodged from
Speaker 8: the right hand of yours by Octavius huns and dives.
Speaker 1: That made a twenty four to fourteen late in the third.
Speaker 1: The team swap punts a couple of times. Kentucky gets
Speaker 1: the ball back early fourth quarter and is able only
Speaker 1: to get it to the Texas forty three. Wildcats punted
Speaker 1: away with eleven and a half minutes to play, still
Speaker 1: time if they could get some stops, but it just
Speaker 1: didn't happen. As Texas began to grind out yardage on
Speaker 1: the ground, the Long Orange put together a fifteen play
Speaker 1: eighty six yard dry It took eight minutes and twenty
Speaker 1: two seconds in every play was on the ground, led
Speaker 1: to a touchdown made of thirty one to fourteen. Wildcats
Speaker 1: get the ball back with about three minutes left and
Speaker 1: could not score. Kentucky played well, acquitted itself well down
Speaker 1: in Austin, just not good enough Wildcats, followed by a
Speaker 1: final of thirty one to fourteen. Season finale came up
Speaker 1: after that the Louisville Cardinals, and some of us thought
Speaker 1: Kentucky still had a shot at it. In fact, with
Speaker 1: the harrowd Leaders survey, I said Kentucky would win by
Speaker 1: a point if the Wildcats won the turnover battle and
Speaker 1: if they protected the quarterback. They didn't neither. They got
Speaker 1: off to a terrible start. I'm not even going to
Speaker 1: bore you with the plays from that game, but what
Speaker 1: I will share with you, by the way, Kentucky losing
Speaker 1: that one forty one to fourteen after falling behind twenty
Speaker 1: to nothing. But what I will share with you is
Speaker 1: the analog that opened the broadcast from Stevie Johnson. He
Speaker 1: was an obvious choice to open this one, of course,
Speaker 1: because of Stevie got loose back in twenty oh seven.
Speaker 1: On my birthday, September fifteenth, when Rich Brooks's best team,
Speaker 1: that twenty oh seven team to set records for offense,
Speaker 1: really showed the Kentucky faithful that this was a team
Speaker 1: that was better than the team before and six. That
Speaker 1: team went to the Music City Bowl, but it lost
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals, and it looked like they were on
Speaker 1: their way to another loss, this time in Lexington. But
Speaker 1: late in the game Wildcats kept it close finally made
Speaker 1: a big play that turned things around. And that's what
Speaker 1: Stevie talked about when he opened our broadcast of ukul.
Speaker 17: Kentucky versus Louisville. One of the greatest memories of my
Speaker 17: career as a Wildcat. Twenty oh seven was a special season.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 17: We handled business and had a lot of fun, and
Speaker 17: that left.
Speaker 2: Steedee Johnson wide open. He just ran to the back
Speaker 2: of the enzode. They turned around and Andre.
Speaker 16: That was the easiest touchdown fast he's gonna throw.
Speaker 17: People might remember to catch I made in the LSU game,
Speaker 17: Derek Locke picking up a blitzing linebacker and Andre Woidson
Speaker 17: had just enough time to throw that sweet down.
Speaker 2: What's a pumpache he flups it. Man wide open up
Speaker 2: it is Steedee Johnson.
Speaker 17: Brashton Kelly made a huge tackle to stop LSU and
Speaker 17: we beat the number one team in the country. But
Speaker 17: most folks might remember me from a game earlier that
Speaker 17: year against those Cardinals, and you might not recall this,
Speaker 17: but I scored the first touchdown of the game.
Speaker 8: Plenty of times fires touchdownucky, somebody got lost and Steedee
Speaker 8: Johnson was one open in the back quarter of the inso.
Speaker 17: I know that's not the touchdown you remember, though, it's
Speaker 17: this one.
Speaker 2: What's up from the gun play? Fake? Step it up?
Speaker 2: He's throwing d Devin the.
Speaker 18: Wow thirteen you ain't lucky number?
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's the nice Stevie got loose and we partied
Speaker 17: all night in Commonwealth Stadium, my teammates.
Speaker 2: And I dug in and laid it on the line
Speaker 2: that night.
Speaker 17: And the cat needs to do it again today at
Speaker 17: Kroger Field.
Speaker 6: It's time to get loose.
Speaker 17: Let's get it Wildcats.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Stevie did a tremendous job. And in fact I had
Speaker 1: set up a zoom call with him, but he jumped
Speaker 1: into this project before I even had a chance to
Speaker 1: connect with him via zoom. He recorded his part on
Speaker 1: I guess on his phone or whatever. He sent me
Speaker 1: the audio files and it had kind of that echoey
Speaker 1: effect that I thought added to it. And if you
Speaker 1: were paying attention, you noticed that Tom Leach would open
Speaker 1: the monologue and introduce the speaker. But Tom and I
Speaker 1: talked about this when in the way Stevie opened it
Speaker 1: up with that chuckle and immediately talking about the Stevie
Speaker 1: got loose, everybody knew who it was going to be.
Speaker 1: We thought that worked out really well. Unfortunately, that was
Speaker 1: probably the best part of the broadcast. As I said,
Speaker 1: as you know, the Wildcats got off to a poor
Speaker 1: start and just never really could make any headway against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. The good news is all the teams would
Speaker 1: beat Kentucky this year. They're on the schedule for next year.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on the other side of the
Speaker 1: break here on this special edition of The Big Bloon
Speaker 1: Sider six point thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big
Speaker 1: Bloon Sider, this Christmas edition of our program, as we
Speaker 1: look back at the Kentucky football season with an encore
Speaker 1: presentation of our Highlights show. And yeah, I know it's
Speaker 1: not the greatest of names, but there were some highlights,
Speaker 1: and we had the upset win over Old Miss to
Speaker 1: talk about. But now we got to wonder about next season.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned earlier, and you know this, if
Speaker 1: you're a Kentucky football fan. In terms of the conference games,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the same opponents, just in different places.
Speaker 1: Home and away swaps off. Now the rest of the
Speaker 1: schedule different. But how do you figure out what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen next year? Because we thought we had it kind
Speaker 1: of nailed down this year, didn't we. When you looked
Speaker 1: at that South Carolina game in the second week, you thought,
Speaker 1: all right, if you can get back to beating South Carolina,
Speaker 1: that's gonna go a long way. Boy, did that not happen.
Speaker 1: You know, you had that suttern Miss game, an easy
Speaker 1: game for the Wildcats, washed out in the middle of
Speaker 1: the third quarter because of weather, and it looked like
Speaker 1: Brock Vandergriff was going to be the guy that Kentucky needs.
Speaker 1: But he ran for his life against South Carolina's edge
Speaker 1: pressure and that was predictable. Jeff pi Coorl talked about
Speaker 1: that before the game. That was his number one concern.
Speaker 1: But he edged rushers for South Carolina, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they were really good all year. So they lose that
Speaker 1: one and take a step back in terms of projected wins,
Speaker 1: and then Georgia comes to town, and you know, Georgia
Speaker 1: had had its way with Kentucky for so long, and
Speaker 1: that game ends up being a one point game, and
Speaker 1: you remember the controversy, should just punt, should to try
Speaker 1: a long field goal, try to get the ball back?
Speaker 1: Will Stoops chose to punt and then couldn't get the
Speaker 1: ball back. There was a huge third down conversion by
Speaker 1: Georgia that ultimately cost Kentucky the game. But if Kentucky
Speaker 1: converged defensively there and has a shot at a short
Speaker 1: field and moving down the field and kicking a game
Speaker 1: winning field goal. But what it did was it gave
Speaker 1: everybody hope. You're one and two, but you're looking pretty
Speaker 1: good now. And then they destroyed Ohio, which turned out
Speaker 1: to be a team that won ten games, including its
Speaker 1: conference championship, and went to a bowl game. And so
Speaker 1: now Kentucky, maybe if not back on schedule, made everybody
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better. And then of course you
Speaker 1: go to Oxford and you pull off the biggest upset
Speaker 1: in recent UK history against the top ten team on
Speaker 1: the road. Now everybody's flying high because the next three
Speaker 1: games were the swing games, the winnable games, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call them. But we all agreed that the
Speaker 1: schedule rested on this clump of games, this cluster, Well,
Speaker 1: you lose to Vandy by a touchdown. Avandy team to
Speaker 1: won six games, but Kentucky should have won. You go
Speaker 1: to Florida, you get inside, you get to the one
Speaker 1: yard line, you can't score, end up getting blown out.
Speaker 1: And then a really ordinary Auburn team comes to ten,
Speaker 1: Nothing good happens and you lose that one. And so
Speaker 1: down the stretch, you know Tennessee, Texas, Louisville. Now you
Speaker 1: know even Louisville. You know they're not gonna have much
Speaker 1: of a shot. They destroyed Murray State, but played well
Speaker 1: in Knoxville, played well at times against Texas, did not
Speaker 1: play well against Louisville. So now what about next year?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Who knows? Because of the portal. Kentucky's made
Speaker 1: a lot of moves like everybody has. But we have
Speaker 1: tried to predict for the last three years how well
Speaker 1: this team would play based on transfers and not just quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: That's the next biggest question. Who's going to be the
Speaker 1: starting QB? But how do you know who's going to perform? Well,
Speaker 1: you don't always get Will Levis, you don't always get
Speaker 1: a Wandale. You don't always get you know, the guys
Speaker 1: who have come through that portal and helped Kentucky media
Speaker 1: lee in a big way. You open up with Toledo,
Speaker 1: then you get Old Miss here at home next year,
Speaker 1: and then Eastern Michigan at home, and is Old Miss
Speaker 1: going to be good? Probably? They go full out with
Speaker 1: the portal and they've been really good the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. And then you got to go to South
Speaker 1: Carolina to Georgia. Then after that here comes Texas and
Speaker 1: Tennessee and then the Auburn later on Florida Vany Louisville.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be I think a turning
Speaker 1: point in the Marx Troops era. Some thought it was
Speaker 1: this year. I think it'll be next year. But whatever happens,
Speaker 1: we'll be there. And we hope you enjoyed our celebrity
Speaker 1: monologues that opened our broadcasts this year. And I know
Speaker 1: you want to hear more about basketball. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: basketball tomorrow night and Friday, but for now, enjoy the
Speaker 1: rest of your Christmas evening, the rest of your holiday week.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us here on the special
Speaker 1: edition of The Big Boo Insider. That's it. Good night
Speaker 1: from the garage in Lexington.
Speaker 18: Paint stand standing standing
Speaker 2: Step