A season that looked very dead and on life support the first couple of months has now regained life as the Kentucky Wildcats cruised past the Florida Gators 38-7 to improve to 4-5 (2-5) this past Saturday night.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve not only won back-to-back games for the first time this season, which put them in striking distance to go bowling, but they also snapped a 10-game conference home losing streak, which dated back to 2023 (also against Florida).<\/p>\n
The Wildcats put on a stomping of a team that they have historically had their hearts broken by and embarrassed them from start to finish, and it was a whole team effort, which made the win that more impressive.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats\u2019 next opponent should not be overlooked by any means, as they\u2019ll take on one of the best FCS teams in college football, the 10-0 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles, on senior day this upcoming Saturday<\/p>\n
Who stood out in the Cats\u2019 statement win over the Gators?<\/p>\n
The Wildcats\u2019 defense put on an amazing performance for the second straight week in a row as they set the tone from start to finish. The defense recorded three interceptions, which were picked off by Ty Bryant, Daveren Rayner, and Quay\u2019sheed Scott, and also forced a fumble, all in the first half, which ultimately led the Wildcats to a blowout victory.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats also held Florida star RB Jadan Baugh in check as he was barely able to be a key factor in the run game on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
An individual who\u2019s been relatively quiet for a while led the Cats in rushing yards and scored a TD against the Gators this past Saturday. Dante Dowdell had his second 100-yard performance on the ground this season (first since Toledo in August) as he rushed for 104 yards on seven carries. Dowdell was a man amongst boys in this outing against the Gators.<\/p>\n
Even though his play has dropped a little recently due to an injury, Seth McGowan picked up where he left off as he ran for a pair of TDs (first rushing TD since September against South Carolina) against the Gators in Saturday\u2019s outing. He finished the contest with 92 yards on 22 carries.<\/p>\n
Words can\u2019t describe how great the Hodgenville, KY native and freshman QB Cutter Boley\u2019s been for the Wildcats this past month. Putting up five TDs against Tennessee a few weeks ago and leading the Cats to their second consecutive victories against the Auburn Tigers and Florida Gators the last two weeks. Boley was named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week a week ago and has now been named SEC Freshman of the Week once again after his two TD performance over the Gators. I think the Wildcats have indeed found their QB for the future for this program, regardless of how this season ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A season that looked very dead and on life support the first couple of months has now regained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,17667],"class_list":["post-44053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}