For a minute there, the script seemed all too familiar. After the grand opening of the new — and beautiful — Commonwealth Stadium, old Kentucky football tried to make a comeback.
After the Cats squandered a 21-point lead to let Louisiana Lafayette tie it up with 7:36 left, it felt like the ghosts of old were rising up from the ancient burial grounds beneath Commonwealth Stadium to have the last laugh. With the team on their heels and the much-ballyhooed youth trembling in their cleats, admit it: part of you thought they were going to lose.