During Belk Bowl warmups, ESPN’s cameras caught Lynn Bowden throwing a punch at a Virginia Tech player during a scuffle, the latest in a series of heated exchanges between the two teams this week. Because the incident happened over an hour prior to the game, it was not reviewable by refs, so Bowden was clear to play, but after Kentucky’s 37-30 win over the Hokies, he took the opportunity to apologize for his role in the postgame press conference.
“It’s a lot of emotions, you know,” Bowden said. “I could have hurt my team and not been out there tonight with them.