You may recall that Kentucky was one of several SEC schools Netflix chose to feature in its new docuseries about SEC football. Film crews were in town throughout the season to document Mark Stoops’ squad, specifically the weeks of the South Carolina and Louisville games. We now have a few more details about the series, including when it will be released.

This morning, Netflix announced the show, which will provide “unfiltered access to coaches and players in college football’s most dominant conference and give an exclusive look at key matchups throughout the season.” The series is produced by Box To Box Films, the same company behind Sprint, Full Swing, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, and Break Point. There will be eight, 45-minute episodes, which will be released in Summer 2025.

According to the official release, the series will “bring viewers everywhere from the field and the locker rooms to the team buses, barbershops, and more.” It is executive produced by James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin, and Hillary Olsen for Box to Box, with showrunner Collin Orcutt.

“This behind-the-scenes docuseries will bring all the drama and pageantry of Southeastern Conference Football to a worldwide Netflix audience,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey told Netflix.

As mentioned, we know that crews were in town for the South Carolina and Louisville games. Both losses were embarrassing, the latter serving as salt in the wound of a very disappointing season. We don’t know which other SEC schools were featured, but hopefully, one of them is Ole Miss, which could give us at least one happy moment to look back on if crews were in Oxford for Kentucky’s lone SEC win.

Regardless, we’ll be watching next summer.

Associated Press

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Don McHenry had 28 points in Western Kentucky’s 86-73 victory over Seattle University on Tuesday night.

McHenry shot 9 of 12 from the field, including 4 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 6 for 6 from the free-throw line for the Hilltoppers (8-3). Julius Thedford added 15 points and seven rebounds. Braxton Bayless finished 5 of 9 from the field and scored 13.

Maleek Arington and Paris Dawson both scored 17 to lead the Redhawks (4-7). Dawson added six assists. Brayden Maldonado totaled 11 points and six rebounds.

Western Kentucky took the lead with 11:07 left in the first half and did not give it up. Enoch Kalambay led their team in scoring with 10 points in the first half to help put them up 38-32 at the break. McHenry scored 19 in the second half.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

The start of the season for the Kentucky Wildcats has been a great one. With a 10-1 record and wins over Duke, Gonzaga, and Louisville, Mark Pope’s team has one of the best resumes in the sport to this point.

That is starting to show in the early bracketology as the Cats are getting some love.

In his latest update Joe Lunardi of ESPN bumped Kentucky up to the 1-seed line as they are joined by two other SEC teams in Tennessee and Auburn. The Tigers are Lunardi’s No. 1 overall seed. Even more wild, he has 13 teams from the SEC making the big dance.

The path would be a fun one, as the Wildcats’ bracket would feature a potential rematch with Gonzaga (2-seed).

Don’t like that? How about a date with the 3-seed Kansas?

Maybe the biggest storyline of them all would come from a potential Round-of-32 matchup with 9-seed Arkansas. That would drive up ratings for sure.

With an already impressive resume, the Wildcats have the chance to add some more key wins, while the opportunities for bad losses are few and far between.

It should be a fun few months of conference play.

Go Cats!