My only consolation after a game like this is that iron sharpens iron, and getting smacked in the mouth wakes you up and makes you angry. First SEC game on the road, hostile environment, first SEC road rape whistle experience, the "playing Kentucky is every SEC opponent's super bowl" thing, and physical gameplay perhaps beyond any thing they've ever encountered both individually and collectively, all that combined has to be rattling.
Still I have no doubt our team will learn and get better as we proceed through the gauntlet that is the SEC conference schedule, and these frustrating losses to good-but-not
-top-25 teams will end.