Missouri has to be concerned with the current state of its defense — both its inability to stop the run and its sudden life without Michael Scherer and Terry Beckner Jr. The Wildcats could find quite a bit of traction for their run game, and that’s scary, especially for anybody who watched the MTSU game.
Luckily, the matchups are pretty good for the Tigers on the other side of the ball.
Kentucky’s defense has gone bend-don’t-break to the extreme. The Wildcats currently rank 115th in success rate and sixth in IsoPPP (which measures the magnitude of the successful plays).