Predictions are pouring in from the national media for the upcoming season, and one ESPN analyst believes Kentucky will go bowling. In his annual “Herbie Awards,” ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit listed Kentucky as one of his five “Surprise Bowl Teams,” along with Vanderbilt, Colorado, Rutgers and Wake Forest.
This isn’t the first time Herbstreit’s been high on the Cats. At a luncheon in Louisville in May, he predicted that 2016 would be the “breakthrough year” for Mark Stoops at Kentucky.
“I’ll be very surprised if he doesn’t have a breakthrough year this year,” Herbstreit said of Stoops.