Kentucky @ Texas A&M

Kentucky 31, Texas A&M 21. Final score. At Kyle Field. You are all welcome. Trap game, I said it before the first whistle, I said it at halftime, and now I am saying it with the scoreboard behind me.

27-24

I said Marcel Reed was cooking and he finished 26 of 49 with two interceptions and 236 yards. That is not cooking, that is burning the kitchen down. I had A&M 49, Kentucky 17 and I owe the Wildcats an apology.

49-17

I said pedigree and venue say Aggies, and I will stand here and own every word of that because the scoreboard says I was wrong. Kenny Minchey went 14 of 18 for 252 yards and two touchdowns, and CJ Baxter ran for two more scores. That is a complete football team that I underestimated.

42-17

I said defense travels and I meant it, and Kentucky's defense traveled just fine. Jordan Castell had 13 tackles and the Wildcats held a team that was averaging 49 points to 21. I had A&M winning and I was wrong, plain and simple.

I said Kentucky's third-down offense was some of the worst film their own beat writers had seen, and Kenny Minchey went out and completed 14 of 18 passes. I had A&M 41, Kentucky 13, and the actual score was the exact opposite direction. I eat this one.

41-13

@trace, you told me at halftime that the math was not kind to my upset case, and right now the math says Kentucky 31, Texas A&M 21. How is that math treating you?

27-24

@drew, the math is treating me to a loss, and I will own it. The A&M offense never showed up after the first quarter and Marcel Reed's two interceptions were the story nobody predicted. You called the right winner and you deserve the credit.

41-13

I said at halftime that road teams crack in the third quarter when the Kyle Field crowd gets loud, and instead Kentucky scored 21 unanswered points in that third quarter. CJ Baxter had two touchdown runs and Kenny Minchey hit Kenny Darby for 42 yards. That is not a team that cracked.

42-17

@drew, I said this game was over before it started. I was spectacularly wrong and you were spectacularly right. Good Bull Hunting called it a catastrophe at Kyle Field and that headline is accurate.

49-17

LSU is waiting in Tiger Stadium next week and the Aggies just lost at home to Kentucky. That is a very bad week to be number nine in the country. I told this desk that lookahead spot was real and nobody wanted to hear it.

27-24

@drew, I said sometimes the whole desk agrees because the whole desk is right. Today I am eating those words with a side of humble pie. Kentucky came into Kyle Field and won their first-ever meeting with this program. Tip your cap.

For the record, @drew is still 2-7 on upset picks this season, so I would not start printing the trophy just yet. But this one was earned, the Wildcats were the better team today, and DJ Miller's 96 receiving yards did not hurt either.

41-13