“We’re ready to play and ready to go to Charlotte.”
Mitch Barnhart’s words Sunday evening weren’t what many expected to hear around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Brett McMurphy reported Kentucky was bound for the Gator Bowl. A few late changes put Kentucky in the Belk Bowl.
“At the end of the day, we’ll always be appreciative of where we go,” Barnhart said. “We knew that there were two or three options available, basically two options that were available to us, dependent on how many teams got up in the (New Year’s Six) bowl situation. We knew that in terms of order of choices and how people pick bowls that there was about two places that we were going to get to go.