Kentucky entered Week looking to win back-to-back games against South Carolina for the first time since 1998-99 while also winning a road game for the first time since 2010.
It's never easy winning in Columbia, and it only made it harder that Last year's meeting saw South Carolina blow a 38-24 in the fourth as UK scored the final 21 points to win it. That only added to SC's desire for revenge in this one, and if nothing else SC certainly wasn't about to make the mistake of overlooking UK again.
It didn't look good for Kentucky early in this one after having the kind of start they could ill-afford to have to win an SEC road game.