To pour salt on the wound, a couple of Kentucky starters left the field at Davis Wade Stadium with injuries before the final scoreboard read 31-17.
Kentucky outside linebacker Jordan Wright missed a few games early in the season with an ankle injury. The nagging setback might have taken a turn for the worse. Wright was carted off the field at the end of the second quarter. The injury forced Marquez Bembry to take more snaps on the edge of UK’s defense.
“We’re just getting really thin,” Stoops said after the game.