The defense was dominant, until it wasn’t. There were a few plays that made you say, ‘Wow,’ and records were broken while you worried Kentucky would collapse, until they didn’t. They never gave up.
“We had a great belief in our locker room,” said Mark Stoops. “We didn’t have to do anything special, just be us.”
When Kentucky trailed by 11 entering the fourth quarter at Missouri, they still believed they could win. Lynn Bowden inserted himself into the game to return a punt and took it the house. He didn’t wait until the fourth quarter today.