The LSU and Kentucky series has been a wild one since the turn of the millennium. Unless you put the game in Tiger Stadium.
While the Tigers’ recent trips to Lexington, Ky., have been complete with Bluegrass Miracles and triple-overtime heartbreak, the Wildcats again couldn’t mount a serious threat between the Tiger Stadium lines, even with a sluggish LSU team and sleepy crowd playing to their advantage.
LSU’s 35-7 victory Saturday kept LSU at No. 1 in the AP poll and marked the third consecutive victory for LSU against Kentucky at home dating to 2000. The Tigers outscored the Wildcats, 118-7, in those three meetings, and Kentucky’s fourth-quarter touchdown Saturday was the first in its last 12 quarters of play in Baton Rouge.
While LSU seemed to spend much of the game exhaling from a rugged four-game opening stretch, coach Les Miles said his team had plenty of motivation despite Kentucky’s slow start to the season.
“I told this team to repay a debt to the 2007 team,” Miles said in reference to that team’s 43-37 loss in triple-overtime in Lexington. “We were ranked No. 1, then we went to Kentucky and finished second in the ballgame. I think that they took that to