Before Kirk Herbstreit flies to Knoxville to call the primetime game between Kentucky and Tennessee on ESPN, he was asking Mark Stoops questions from the College GameDay set in Jackson, Ms. For the second time in October, the Kentucky head coach was interviewed on the four-letter network’s pregame program. Herbstreit asked his pal Stoops how his team is feeling after getting a week off the field.
“I think it was important for us to get the bye week. Seven straight weeks is difficult with how physical it is and the guys were a little bit beat up and playing a team that’s very fast, both with the tempo and the speed of their players,” said Stoops.