“Comes down to a goal line stand and our players fought extremely hard. You come up a yard short and it’s very, very difficult. A tough pill to swallow.”
Kentucky’s chances died on a Lynn Bowden rush for no gain at the two-yard line. When asked, Stoops said he wanted to save his timeouts in case the Vols got the ball back and faltered.
“I thought Lynn made a really good play. I’ll never argue with Lynn taking it right there and he stretched it to the perimeter. We’ll probably look at it and feel like if he had pitched it, it would have been a foot race to the pylon, probably had a chance, but I’m not going to argue with that kid and the way he has a chance to pull the ball down and try to drive it in there and get the one yard.