After Terry Wilson took a costly sack on third down, Kentucky needed to make about a 43-yard field goal. Miles Butler’s kick was clean, but not long enough. The ball bounced off the crossbar and essentially sealed UK’s fate.
“It was right on his range, right on the range,” Stoops said after the game. “I had faith in him to get it done. He had a good kick and missed it by what, a half-yard? He didn’t quite hit it like he can.”
When the field goal team first rushed out onto the field, Chance Poore was swinging his leg.