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Danny Kanell uses Kentucky to take shot at SEC's perceived strength from top to bottom

FaceProfileby: Thomas Goldkamp11/29/25

College football analyst Danny Kanell has become well-known for his frequent ribbing of SEC fans. Add another one to the long list on Saturday following Louisville‘s 41-0 win over Kentucky.

Kanell kept it pretty simple, tweeting a screenshot of the score from ESPN. He then captioned it with the following:

“Can someone create a mashup of every SEC coach saying how hard it is to win vs Kentucky???”

The implication from Danny Kanell was simple: SEC coaches and media personalities often talk their teams up, even the ones that aren’t quite as competitive record-wise. Kentucky would certainly fit into that category this year.

The Wildcats finished the year 5-7 overall, with a 2-6 mark in conference play. The team lost six of its final nine games, including back-to-back blowouts against Vanderbilt and Louisville.

That wasn’t the only weighing in on the SEC that Danny Kanell did on Saturday. He also had a strong opinion on a potential playoff team.

Danny Kanell calls out Steve Sarkisian’s plea

Following No. 16 Texas‘ 27-17 win over No. 3 Texas A&M on Friday night, coach Steve Sarkisian made an impassioned plea to the College Football Playoff committee in an attempt to bolster the Longhorns’ chances of getting in. Kanell took exception.

But Kanell didn’t want to hear the arguments, or what he called propaganda, from Sarkisian and the Longhorns. At 9-3, Texas is currently undeserving of the CFP and it would not be a disservice if they missed out on the tournament, per Kanell.

“Oh, boy, get ready. The PR assault is coming. It’s already started, too, and it started all the way back in Spring Meetings, the SEC Spring Meetings, when Greg Sankey had a whole booklet of propaganda talking about the strength of schedule and how hard it is to play in the SEC,” Danny Kanell said during his sunny drive Saturday morning.

“Well, then those coaches have taken it and run with it, including Steve Sarkisian last night after the big win against Texas A&M, making his case for his team into the College Football Playoff, and he said it would be a disservice to college football if Texas was not in the playoff. And he referenced a few of their wins. Interestingly, he did not mention any of their losses. Well, actually, he did mention one Ohio State, because that is a good loss, but he glossed over a 25-point loss at Georgia and an ugly loss to a 3-8 Florida team.”

Danny Kanell made his point about Texas’ losses to Florida and Georgia, not just Ohio State. He wanted to point out to Sarkisian that you can’t cherry pick portions of your schedule to make a case for the College Football Playoff.

“Here’s the disservice to college football, if you ignore what happened in the regular season, the thing that makes college football great, it is a 12 game schedule where every game matters,” Kanell said. “It can’t just be three, it can’t just be four games matter. It has to be the totality of it, or else you destroy the regular season.”

On3’s Nick Kosko also contributed to this report.