Rarely does the outcome of a single college football game have much of an impact on a program’s overall recruiting efforts, but the timing of UK’s trip to Florida — and the Cats’ three-plus decades of futility in that series — could prove to be an exception.
Heading into Saturday night’s road game, Kentucky has the No. 40-ranked recruiting class in the Rivals.com rankings. There’s still a ways to go in the 2019 cycle, but if that position holds it would be the lowest ranking for a Wildcats’ class since Mark Stoops became head coach in 2012.