LEXINGTON – The final weekend of college football’s regular season could not have gone much better for Kentucky football’s bowl prospects.
A blowout of archrival Louisville was the kind of emphatic closing statement Kentucky needed to recover momentum from its midseason losing streak. Wins for Alabama and Ole Miss secured their spots in the New Year’s Six bowls, even if Alabama loses to Georgia in the SEC championship game and falls out of the playoff.
Most surprisingly, LSU’s upset of Texas A&M put the Citrus Bowl back on the table for Kentucky.
The Citrus Bowl, scheduled for Jan.