Halftime: Kentucky 21, Mississippi State 3

Kentucky Football has the halftime lead on Mississippi State through two quarters down in Starkville, Mississippi. At intermission, the Davis Wade scoreboard reads Kentucky 21, Mississippi State 3.

If the scoreboard counted pushing and shoving, those numbers would be much higher. These teams clearly don’t like either other.

We’ll start there.

Bad Blood

At least twice in the first quarter, officials pulled the teams together to tell them to cut out the altercations between plays. There were early scuffles on each sideline that needed to be broken up, plus the extracurricular stuff you typically see between teams that don’t like each other; things like holding onto jerseys, helmet-butting,…