Just look at our schedule. As demoralizing the loss to USM was. Who would've thought that we would have the 4 worst SEC teams on our schedule this season and maybe even 5th worst depending on what UGA keeps doing? Can't remember a time when we've had such a favorable SEC schedule. MSU, Vandy, SC, and Mizzou are the 4 worst teams in the SEC if you don't include us and we play all of them. It's really nice having a pretty weak schedule compared to the murderers row in which we usually deal with for once.
How lucky are we this season?
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Flip side to that is UK had to play the 2 best on the road...Bama and UF.
Its never easy in the SEC...never...
Its never easy in the SEC...never...
That's actually a break for UK. We definitely weren't going to beat Bama regardless of where the game was played so it's best not to waste a home game on a certain loss. Very unlikely to beat UF at home either. So, we get 2 of our sure losses in SEC play on the road, leaving us the winnable games at home. You can also add UT to the list of beneficial road games. Not sure we'd be beating them in Lexington this year.
Next year that won't be the case though. UT, FL, Ole Miss at home...swing games on the road. We definitely need to take advantage of the scheduling breaks this year.
JB I would agree v. a healthy UT but they have 3 -4 star players out for the yr.
If UK can continue winning and obviously stay healthy I believe we could have a chance even in Rocky Top.
Agreed. But looking at future schedules can be tough. You never know what a team will look like in a year. Who knows, maybe we'll be much improved next year and can win some of those games.
From what I've seen UT hasn't been spectacular, but they've managed to do just enough to win. Have to give them credit for that. If we were healthy we could maybe give them a game in Knoxville. Either Barker has to be healthy (I haven't seen anything on his status so he may not be) or Johnson has to really improve for us to beat them either in Lexington or in Knoxville.
You're right that UT is banged up, but I think they're still better than us. Hopefully we can continue to improve and UT's luck has ran out for the next 25 years and we can have a chance in Knoxville.
It's definitely easy for us in the SEC this year. I mean we're not that good either so wins aren't going to be easy to come by. But it's sure nice to have our 2 sure losses on the road and all the terrible teams at home. We have to take advantage of this stretch where we play terrible team after another. If there's an easy year for us in the SEC. It's THIS YEAR. I can't remember the last time we've played such a terrible SEC schedule in my entire life. I don't think it's ever been this weak. If our 07' team had this schedule I could easily see 10-2 or 9-3. Unfortunately this team isn't half the team that 07 team was, but still.
For being in the SEC, our schedule has set up very, very nicely. On the whole, it's not exactly a cupcake of a season.
A couple of weeks ago I might have agreed but with their most recent ridiculous rash of injuries to UT, that game is turning into a very winnable one IMO. Agree on the others. Mizzou on the road might be the toughest conference game we have left. Of course things change from week to week.
Any SEC schedule is a tough one compared to most other conferences, even one like this year that is somewhat weighted in our favor.
And U of L is a rivalry gm. They beat UK last yr. You know our guys will be sky high for this one and U of L still has at Houston.
One problem that's a little misleading about our schedule is there isn't a whole lot of room for error. You keep bringing up that we could go to a bowl without beating a "decent team." That's in part because there isn't a just decent team on our schedule. It's either teams that you think aren't very good whatsoever or it's teams like Bama, Florida and Louisville. Those aren't just "decent" teams, those are really, really good teams...especially Bama and uofl.
Exactly. We beat abunch of bad losing teams. And lose to a few really good teams and one loss to one very very bad team. But the thing is. We have a schedule where we can have 5 SEC wins and it be against 5 really bad teams. Which has never been possible in previous years. Playing 5 bad SEC teams in one year is unheard of. And very fortunate. Obviously in the SEC you're going to play AT LEAST 2 damn good teams. But usually never do we play 5 bad teams in the SEC.
I would not call this a lucky year to U.K.
Lost Hatcher, Meant before season. And starting QB in game two. In most years that would bury U.K. Not to mention some others starters along the way
We've had our share of typical attrition. As far as schedule goes we'll see how next year goes after teams start playing. You never know
Lost Hatcher, Meant before season. And starting QB in game two. In most years that would bury U.K. Not to mention some others starters along the way
We've had our share of typical attrition. As far as schedule goes we'll see how next year goes after teams start playing. You never know
Hatcher has been putting up less than stellar numbers at the d2 level, meant was a bad loss. But the players we've lost is about the same amount every other team in the country loses. Nothing unlucky about that besides the loss of Barker. Every team has players get injured. We haven't had too many key players get hurt which is a lot more than most teams can say.
I'm pretty sure that when you go to the movies you count the number of unpopped kernels in your corn, and complain about it, before eating a bite.
I'm referencing your hopeless negativity... you are a "glass 1/2 empty" case study.
Hopeless negativity? Point where that is in this thread. All I said was we play abunch of terrible teams whereas we usually don't. Am I supposed to act like Vandy, SC, Mizzou, and MSU are even decent when they all suck? If we played our normal difficult schedule we'd probably be looking at 4-8 5-7 right now. All I said was that we're lucky for our weak SEC schedule.