Post Governor’s Cup and pre-Jacksonville talk featured bowl excitement and expectation for the 2017 season. If the Georgia Tech game’s depth chart happened to be a crystal ball, it would have flashed a promising future. The Wildcat offense was believed to begin its next season with ten returning starters to go along with nine on defense. 19 returning starters had prognosticators operating within a new-found sense of expectation.
That was nine months and several personnel actions ago. Kentucky is now down to six offensive and eight defensive starters from the team that squared off against Tech on New Year’s Eve.