Kentucky Claws Back to Beat Ole Miss 20-17 in Thriller

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00:00So, you said it, Dubs. Let's get rolling through this Saturday's slate, and I think you picked

00:10the perfect place to start. Ole Miss falling to Kentucky. They felt like they were in control.

00:16They opened up putting on seven in the first quarter. They were closed out in the second

00:20quarter, so that's when they realized, oh my goodness, Kentucky could potentially be

00:24a problem. Then they put up 10 points in that third quarter, and they were completely shut

00:28out by the Wildcats who clawed their way back into that game to make sure they pulled

00:33off a 20-17 victory. While I want to get your take on this game, please do not leave out

00:38any and every thought and opinion you have on the potential fake injury that took place

00:42because I only see this in my world of football, not football, and I'm still wrapping my head

00:49around the fact that a running back potentially tried to have a fake injury, and hopefully

00:53he's okay, but this was just a wild, wild situation in college football today.

00:58You said we got some English Premier League antics coming across to college football in

01:04week five. Hey, at least we saw a few more points from this one, and the writing was

01:08on the wall for the Rebels. We saw the Wildcats last out going against Georgia. They pushed

01:16it right to the absolute limits. They almost pulled off the upset. This will be the first

01:19win in Oxford since 1978, so this truly is a special performance for the program. We

01:25saw for Ole Miss, Trey Harris, he was big, 11 receptions, 176 receiving yards, but that

01:30wasn't enough. It really did come down to the final couple of minutes in this one, but

01:35I'll tell you what, in terms of who's going to be the biggest celebratory party here on

01:41a Saturday night down there in Kentucky, it's got to be Mark Stoops. This is a monster performance

01:46for a program that's shown plenty of promise. I know the record still shows us three and

01:50two for the year, but to push one of the expected national contenders, and to come back here,

01:57take it on the Rebels in their building, and to absolutely pull the upset, absolutely special

02:02stuff there. You look at the receiving numbers, they really spread it across the board. The

02:06run game, it was absolutely multi-dimensional, so for the Wildcats, this is a massive win,

02:1317-17, absolute chlorine their way to victory, as you've said it, in a close one there.

02:18Yeah, and we talked about it for the past couple weeks here, Dubs. We were saying how

02:22the Rebels haven't particularly had that level of competition yet, and that it was coming

02:27down the pipeline for them, and as you mentioned, Wildcats brought it to Georgia. Well, they

02:30carry that energy and that momentum into this matchup, and really face a true test, or put

02:36a true test out there, for Ole Miss to have to raise to the occasion an answer. So, Jackson

02:41Dart, not a bad day for him still. 261 passing yards, one tidy, clean slate with the interceptions,

02:47but outside of that, while he was able to air out the ball, Harris wrapped up his night

02:50176 receiving yards through 11 receptions, and one, the ground game could not really

02:55get going. So, they kind of lost one of their dimensions, as you mentioned, multi-dimension

02:59for the other team, hence the three-point failure for Ole Miss. But we do still see

03:05great numbers when it comes to Dart being in that Heisman chap, something Dubs and I

03:09will get to later on down the slate.