Early Kentucky football preview: Ole Miss

Greetings, BBN!

As we await the beginning of the 2022 Kentucky Wildcats soccer season, now’s a good time to take a look at the upcoming schedule and scout the opponents. This week we have a look at Week 5 as Kentucky faces the Ole Miss Rebels of their second SEC sport.

• When: October 1st
• The place: Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Mississippi
• All-Time Sequence: Ole Miss leads 28-14-1

This is among the most enjoyable video games on Kentucky’s schedule and a really particular rarity for the ‘Cats. UK has not performed Ole Miss in Oxford for a highway sport since a 42-35 loss in 2010.

That implies that whereas each groups play within the SEC, in case you’re a 21-year-old faculty senior on the brink of watch Kentucky take snaps on Ole Miss’s discipline and like seeing the assorted and varied stadiums of the South, it’d be your first time because you have been a 9-year-old consuming Rice Krispies whereas watching Curious George on PBS.

So yeah, it’s been some time, and naturally it’s been even longer since UK’s left Oxford with a win: 1978.

Why does it at all times need to be like 5 many years since Kentucky’s received someplace? I don’t know, however it’s all about alternative. This season, they will additional add to their belt of achievements throughout the Stoops Period of Breaking Down Doorways with a win in Oxford in opposition to Lane Kiffin and the Rebels, who’re coming off a Sugar Bowl berth and 10-win season.

Matt Corral is gone, however Kiffin’s group doesn’t appear to have misplaced momentum this offseason due to the switch portal. Each groups could be coming into this sport ranked and 4-0, so it might be a collision course of two actually nice groups prepared for excellent seasons.

Prediction: Ole Miss is actually good and is at dwelling. Kentucky can come into this stadium behind Will Levis’s NFL arm and win a shootout if they provide it their all and make no errors, and I’m going to foretell that they do as a result of I imply why not?

UK wins 35-34.