Kentucky has faced a lot of good football teams under Mark Stoops. SEC gauntlets. Heisman winners. Alabama teams that looked like NFL rosters. Georgia teams built in a laboratory. High-powered Tennessee and Ole Miss offenses that they couldn’t stop. When you’re Kentucky in the SEC, you see it all.
Which is what makes today’s defensive performance at Vanderbilt so shocking. Vanderbilt may be a playoff contender this year, with arguably its best QB of all time in Diego Pavia, but it is still Vanderbilt. The Commodores were only a touchdown favorite at kickoff, but still blew Kentucky out of Nashville, winning 45-10.