Kentucky Football Weekly Update: Week 11
By Will
We’re back in the saddle after three weeks off. After Mississippi State, Kentucky’s certainly no longer a unanimous top-15 team and Andre’ Woodson’s Heisman hopes are over. But the football Wildcats are still a top-25 team and still in the running for a New Year’s Day bowl. To the Update!
BCS Standings. Kentucky is No. 23 in the BCS Standings. In the individual components of the BCS, the Cats are No. 21 in the Harris Interactive Poll, No. 20 in the USA Today Poll, and No. 22 in the computer rankings. [Link] (Georgia is No. 9.)
Associated Press Poll. The Cats are No. 22 in the Associated Press poll. [Link] (Georgia is No. 8.)
CBSSports. Kentucky is No. 22 in the CBSSports.com 120. [Link] (Georgia is No. 9). CBSSports projects the Cats will face Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia, on New Year’s Eve. [Link]
SI.com. Kentucky is No. 23 in Stewart Mandel’s Power Rankings:
At some point last Saturday, the Wildcats became mathematically eliminated from a chance at a division title (the SEC East is down to Tennessee, Georgia and Florida), but they still have a chance to play in their first New Year’s bowl in nine years by winning at least one of their last two.
[Link] (Georgia is No. 7.) Mandel projects Kentucky will face Penn State in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida, on New Year’s Day. [Link]
FoxSports. Kentucky is No. 20 in the CollegeFootballNews.com Rankings at FoxSports:
The Ranking Should Be Higher Because … it shouldn’t be. At the moment the Wildcats aren’t playing like anything special. They’re struggling way too much to get the offense rolling again, while the defense has been merely average.
The Ranking Should Be Lower Because … it could be argued that Mississippi State deserves to be higher than the Wildcats. The record might not be the same, but the Bulldogs are playing better and are only two weeks removed from a 31-14 blowout in Lexington.
[Link] (Georgia is No. 9.) FoxSports projects the Cats will face Tulsa in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 29. [Link]
ESPN.com. The Cats have been out of the Power 16 since the Mississippi State game. (Georgia is No. 8.) In ESPN.com’s bowl projections, Ivan Maisel projects the Cats will face Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl and Mark Schlabach projects the Cats will face Tulsa in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. [Link]
Sagarin Rankings. Kentucky has a predictor rating of 82.72 and a ranking of No. 17. [Link] (Georgia has a rating of 85.4 and a ranking of No. 12.)
Vegas Oddsmakers’ Top 25-30. The Cats are ranked No. 28. [Link] (Georgia is No. 13.)
Blog Poll. Kentucky is No. 22 in this Week’s Blog Poll. [Link] (Georgia is No. 9.)
SEC Power Poll. Kentucky is No. 6 in the SEC Power Poll. [Link] (Georgia is No. 2.)
That’s that. Onward and upward!