Vanderbilt’s annual battle with Kentucky has traditionally been a match for last place in the SEC East. But a weird thing happened on the way to the teams’ 2018 matchup: Kentucky is actually good at this football thing. Kentucky is good enough that its fans have forgotten that basketball season starts in a couple of weeks. (Ha! Just kidding.)
Kentucky is 5-1, 3-1 in the SEC, with its first win over Florida in a long time and home wins over Mississippi State and South Carolina. Vanderbilt will head to Lexington on Saturday night for a 6:30 PM CT kickoff on the SEC Network, and it could be a bit chilly at Kroger Field: as of this writing, the temperature is expected to be around 54 degrees at kickoff and dropping into the 40s as the game goes on.