This outta be good.
Ill say 1977 sometime.
UK Athletics will have it soon enough.
Anyone?
Ill say 1977 sometime.
UK Athletics will have it soon enough.
Anyone?
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Highest ranked (#12) SEC opponent on the road UK has defeated since?
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I think I know the game your talking about in 1998 but I don't think they were ranked 12 or higher honestly.
Here's the entire list of UK's road wins over ranked SEC teams:
2022 at #12 Florida
2020 at #18 Tennessee
2018 at #25 Florida
1998 at #21 LSU
1977 at #16 LSU
1964 at #1 Ole Miss (but this was played in Jackson, not Oxford)
1954 at #15 Georgia Tech
1947 at #10 Vanderbilt
If you consider the 1964 win a true road game, then that's the most recent example. If you don't, then you have to go back to 1947 for the only other true road win over a league opponent ranked 12 or higher.
2022 at #12 Florida
2020 at #18 Tennessee
2018 at #25 Florida
1998 at #21 LSU
1977 at #16 LSU
1964 at #1 Ole Miss (but this was played in Jackson, not Oxford)
1954 at #15 Georgia Tech
1947 at #10 Vanderbilt
If you consider the 1964 win a true road game, then that's the most recent example. If you don't, then you have to go back to 1947 for the only other true road win over a league opponent ranked 12 or higher.
It was 1947, leather helmet days. I think there was a time once when Centre was considered some sort of power.
The only reason our all-time series with Vandy is close is because they were good back in the old days and kicked us around for a while. It's been lopsided in our favor since World War II (UK is 47-23-2 from 1946 onward). Vandy started the series with 16 wins and a tie before we got our first win in 1939.
So a case can be made yesterday was UK’s biggest road win in 75 years, or at least 58. Wow.
The only ones from that list I'd put above it in significance are 2018 against the same Gators (since it ended the streak) and 2020 against Tennessee (since we hadn't won down there in ages).
And of course there were a couple big non-conference road wins at UofL (most notably 2016 against Lamar Jackson) and some wins against unranked-but-prestigious SEC teams (like taking down Georgia and Auburn in 2009).
What really stands out to me about last night's game is that Stoops has finally made this accomplishment/feeling unsurprising. I'm thrilled but no longer shocked for us to pull it off.
Interesting that none of these were under Brooks. He had the wins over Georgia and Auburn, both of which were big at the time, but not nearly as significant as these wins in the Swamp, IMO.
Stoops has actually put us in a position where we expect to beat 3 of our East brethren every year, and Florida and Tennessee are “push” games. Georgia remains the big fish.
Remaining on this trajectory is important with conference expansion on the way.
