After last week’s humiliating 56-34 home loss to Tennessee, Kentucky football was left for dead. The defense was scorched, the home losing streak hit double digits, and Mark Stoops’ seat was arguably the hottest in the country.
On Saturday night, the Wildcats (3-5, 1-5 SEC) finally responded. In a gritty, defensive slugfest on the road, Kentucky stunned Auburn 10-3, earning its first SEC win of the season and snapping a painful ten-game SEC losing streak.
The win wasn’t pretty. The offense only scored 10 points. But it was defined by one singular, season-saving moment of individual effort from a true freshman.
The one play that changed everything for Mark Stoops and Hugh Freeze
With Kentucky clinging to a 10-3 lead in the fourth quarter and trying to bleed the clock, disaster struck. Quarterback Cutter Boley’s arm was hit as he threw, sending a lame duck floating into the arms of Auburn defensive back AnQuon Fegans for an interception…