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Freshmen have played a major role this season in the SEC. A redshirt freshman, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, won the Heisman Trophy. A true freshman, Georgia running back Todd Gurley, leads the league in rushing with 1,260 yards, and two o...

As you might imagine, the feedback has been flowing in from our top 11 offensive players and top 11 defensive players of the BCS era. We also selected an All-SEC team by position of the BCS era. And, yes, I agree that many deserving players wer...

It was obvious a year ago that Kentucky was lacking in the playmaker department on offense. That happens when you lose the likes of Randall Cobb and Derrick Locke the year before. But judging from the Wildcats' Blue-White spring game Saturday, the...

Everyone wants the five-stars. No recruiting collection would be complete without them. But as we've seen over the years, not all of them really pan out, leaving fans and coaches pouting along the way. However, when one of those five-stars busts, ...

KENTUCKY Record: 5-7, 2-6 SEC The Wildcats entered the year down a handful of offensive playmakers and it certainly showed all season. Without the likes of Randall Cobb, Mike Hartline and Derrick Locke, Kentucky hovered around the bottom of the...

KENTUCKY WILDCATS Record: 2-4 (0-3 SEC) Most figured that Kentucky would struggle without offensive playmakers like Randall Cobb, Chris Matthews, Mike Hartline and Derrick Locke, but few thought it would be this bad. Kentucky has yet to gain mo...

Anybody feeling toasty? For that matter, anybody got the chills? It's our weekly gauge of the temperature around the SEC. You know it as Hot and Not: GLOWING EMBERS Georgia's defense: Kudos to Todd Grantham and his entire defensive staff,...

It's obvious South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier is determined to get the Gamecocks' passing game going. The Gamecocks, with sophomore Connor Shaw taking over at quarterback, threw it 22 times in the first half and lead Kentucky 20-3. Shaw was sha...

Despite Morgan Newton's tremendously rough start to the 2011 season, Kentucky coach Joker Phillips plans to stick with the junior quarterback this week at South Carolina. Newton's quarterback efficiency sits at a hideous 97.8, he's completing 50 p...

It's time for some clarification. In the wake of Green Bay Packers' Randall Cobb's unbelievable debut on Thursday night, social media was exploding with criticism of the Tennessee for its failure to offer a scholarship to the former Alcoa (Tenn.) Hi...

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Fellow SEC blogger Chris Low brought you his 10 fearless predictions for the 2011 season, so now it's my turn. I'm sure we'll all look back on this post at the end of the season and think, "Man, the youngster really brought it with his preseason p...

Tennessee's Derek Dooley and Kentucky's Joker Phillips are the SEC's two head coaches entering their second seasons. Both cut their teeth in the SEC before getting their own gigs last year. Dooley worked under Nick Saban for five seasons at LSU...

HOOVER, Ala. -- Gone are the offensive weapons that provided the excitement in Kentucky's 2010 offense. Do-everything athlete Randall Cobb is gone. Quarterback Mike Hartline, who was second in the SEC in passing a year ago -- adios. And running ba...

We turn our attention today to Kentucky. Coach: Tee Martin Position: Passing game coordinator and receivers Experience: He's entering his second season on the Kentucky staff. Martin, 32, was in charge of the Wildcats' receivers last season, ...

Former Kentucky offensive lineman Bob Talamini will be inducted into the Kentucky Chapter of the National Football League Players Association Hall of Fame today at the Lexington Opera House. Talamini will be one of six players inducted into the Ha...

Six years ago, a voice injected some much-needed juice into Kentucky's program. Former tight end Jacob Tamme delivered a sermon that hit straight to the core of those inside Kentucky's program when he announced to the team that SEC wasn't coming d...