[Postgame Thread] Kentucky Defeats Texas A&M 31-21

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Kentucky	0	7	21	3	31
Texas A&M	0	7	0	14	21

[u/imused2it]

All I know is this is the most competent Kentucky has looked as a football team in my nearly 35 years watching.

[u/HorilkaMedPerets → u/imused2it]

It's wild seeing a mostly mistake-free team

[u/Heyhaykay → u/HorilkaMedPerets]

Take away the 1st quarter

[u/RefereeMason1 → u/imused2it]

my brother is a sophomore at UK and i’m having a blast watching these games together while we’re hundreds of miles apart.

[u/JediKid-A → u/imused2it]

The Will Levis/Wan'Dale season? Or the season Lynn Bowden, Jr did a damn good Tommy Frazier impression?

[u/imused2it → u/JediKid-A]

Even in those seasons it felt like any big win was despite ourselves. Or an individual performer.

This felt like an actual team win.

[u/JediKid-A → u/imused2it]

That's fair.

[u/surgeon_michael → u/imused2it]

Nah the Josh Allen team was fundamentally sound

[u/sleepytime489 → u/surgeon_michael]

Defensively that team was elite. It had like what, 5 pros on D? Offensively, they were basically the fighting Benny snells. Still loved that team.

[u/imused2it → u/surgeon_michael]

Defensively at least.

[u/romulus531 → u/surgeon_michael]

Still the best team we've had this century

[u/MEGAWATT5 → u/imused2it]

I was rooting hard for yall last week, but it’s hard to go up against a team as deep as Bama for four quarters and come out on top. Yalls TEs are legit!

[u/imused2it → u/MEGAWATT5]

Stoops not utilizing Rodriguez is a huge reason our fans soured on him so quickly. He’s a beast.

[u/TheMadChatta → u/imused2it]

So, what happened last week versus Alabama that changed this week versus A&M?

[u/Separate_Animator110 → u/TheMadChatta]

Kentucky scored more points than them😁

[u/imused2it → u/TheMadChatta]

Honestly, I think about 8 plays going differently separate that game from a blowout to a win or a close game. Two fourth down fake punts immediately come to mind and I know there were a couple of miscues on offense.

I haven’t shared that opinion because I know it sounds like coping or sour grapes, but hopefully that’s not the case if I say it after a win like this.

[u/sleepytime489 → u/imused2it]

We only had one fake punt?

[u/imused2it → u/sleepytime489]

I thought it was two, but the other one may have just been going for it on 4th.

[u/Panem-et-circenses25 → u/imused2it]

Except for my freshman year team in 98, agree

[u/swiftekho → u/imused2it]

This is the first Kentucky team that looks like it knows how to play 21st century football.

[u/Prestigious-Car-4324 → u/imused2it]

It’s because you played us, I wouldn’t expect you to look as competent next week. Sorry for resetting expectations.