Throughout the middle of the 2018 Kentucky football campaign, Wildcats backers fretted that UK’s sputtering offense was eventually going to undermine the Cats’ stout defense and derail what was shaping up as a special season.
On a chilly autumn Saturday in a familiar UK football house of horrors, the worst fears of Kentucky fans came true.
Tennessee (5-5, 1-4 SEC) held No. 11 Kentucky (7-3, 5-3 SEC) to 68 yards of first-half offense and opened a 17-0 halftime lead that UK’s punchless attack had no hope to overcome. The result was a 24-7 UT victory over UK before an announced Neyland Stadium crowd of 95,258.