I want to preface this by saying that I am in awe of what Alabama did this past weekend against #3 Georgia. I am not surprised that they won, as I thought that one could go either way. But I am surprised that they scored the game’s first 31 points. I’ve never seen a good Georgia team get beaten down like that in Athens. It was the most dominant performance in one game of the entire season.
With all of that said, I will not concede defeat this week. Have you watched college football this year? Did you see Oregon State jump out on USC and hold on? Oregon State was on TV two other times up to that point. They lost in overtime to a bad Stanford team and got destroyed by Penn State. They had no business even hanging with what Colin Cowherd was calling the best USC team ever. Did you see Michigan come back this weekend against Wisconsin? I saw Michigan look like absolute garbage on TV against both Utah and Notre Dame. They had no business hanging with a very good Wisconsin team, especially after being down by 19 and turning it over five times in the first half.
Of course, neither of those teams is Kentucky, but that’s okay, I have another good example that’s relevant. Remember LSU last season? How unbeatable did LSU look going into the Kentucky game? They took the best shot that an outstanding Florida team could give them, and they survived. In every other game, they dominated. How could the Kentucky defense, which had played poorly all year, make enough plays to even keep that game within two touchdowns? Well, you know what happened. 43-37 was one of the five greatest sports moments of my life.
Now I realize that Andre Woodson, Rafael Little, Keenan Burton, Steve Johnson, Jacob Tamme and Wesley Woodyard are all gone, but I don’t care. The Kentucky defense has been awesome. The WKU game might have been the best defensive performance of the young season, and that was without Ricky Lumpkin and Micah Johnson. I saw where Coach Brooks said that both guys were doubtful for the Alabama game, but in the SEC, you often see the “doubtful” guys from Monday all of a sudden become healthy enough on Saturday. In order to stand a chance against that powerful Alabama offensive line, they have to play. If they play, that defense can hold its own against any offense in America.
I’ll go into a little more detail in the next few days, but I just wanted to set the mood for my football columns this week.
I’m Seth Stogsdill, and I’m just saying that you never know what’s going to happen in college football.