1. It’s time to start discussing Mike Hartline for All-SEC honors- There are two quarterbacks in the SEC that are unequivocally better than UK’s senior signalcaller: Ryan Mallet and Cam Newton. A handful of others (Aaron Murray, Greg McElroy, Stephen Garcia) are playing at a level similar to him, but you can argue that Hartline [...]
If you follow UK football, you know that you’re going to end up heartbroken every once in a while. That was the case for anyone who watched the Cats fall to No. 8 Auburn 37-34 last night at Commonwealth Stadium. When Auburn got the ball on the kickoff with 7:31 left in the game, the [...]
Join Kernel writers Ben Jones and Chandler Howard for tonight’s UK-Auburn game before kickoff at 7:30. Auburn (5-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) still has designs on an SEC championship, but they’ll have to get through the Cats to keep their undefeated season alive. Last year, UK had three players rush for touchdowns at the quarterback position [...]
So much for a chance to get an SEC win on the road and fly into a three-game homestand. UK is fighting for its season already. If the Cats play like that the rest of the way, they won’t beat Auburn, South Carolina, or Georgia, and they’ll have to salvage wins at Tennessee, at Mississippi [...]
OXFORD, Miss.: Kernel writers Ben Jones and Chandler Howard are in the press box at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium for today’s football game. The Cats (3-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) are trying to find their first win in league play and get back on track after being hammered by Florida last week, while the Rebels (2-2, 0-1 SEC) [...]
Now that I’ve had a 12-hour car ride and a couple hours of sleep to gather some (relatively) coherent thoughts on UK’s 48-14 loss to the Gators, let’s see what we can take from Saturday. 1. The game was closer than the score: UK had thrown the towel in by some point late in the [...]
After just one year in the SEC, DeQuin Evans is already an All-Conference candidate. He led the Cats last year with 12.5 tackles for loss and six sacks, and he’s one of the strongest leaders on the defense. But the senior, who transferred from Los Angeles Harbor College, has a lot more going on under [...]
Just two years after UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart first presented his goal of winning 15 conference and national championships across the athletic department by 2015, the athletics department is already seeing the results of his initiative. Another of Barnhart’s goals was to have the UK athletic department rank in the top 15 of the [...]
When Qua Huzzie arrived at LaGrange High School in LaGrange, Ga., he put a couple of local legends on notice. The audacious freshman told Braxton Kelley and Wesley Woodyard, who both went on to be All-Southeastern Conference linebackers at UK and NFL players, he was going to break their records. He made good on that [...]
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine Moncell Allen ever played anywhere other than fullback. His squatty 5-foot-7, 225-pound frame doesn’t lend itself to images of a playmaking tailback. But that’s where the senior-to-be has been cast mostly to this point in his career. Now, with the departure of John Conner, Allen is moving within [...]
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