Even as a steady rain poured down, no student, no fan was ready to go home.
Some found their way to the Kroger Field turf, squishy and wet beneath their feet.
At one point in the chaos that was Saturday night after Kentucky upset No. 14 Mississippi State 28-7, UK’s Benny Snell found himself surrounded on all sides by fans chanting “Heisman! Heisman! Heisman!”
At another point early in the game after Snell’s second of four touchdowns over one of the most physical defenses in the Southeastern Conference, a crowd of 60,037 chanted his name as the loudspeakers blared an old Elton John hit — “Benny and the Jets” — that has become his anthem of sorts.