Game Blog Nominees; Kent St. Got Checked

A 56-20 win over Kent St. should please the Big Blue Nation, after all by all indications of the first half, Kent St showed up and was going to fight to the bitter end but the Kentucky defense showed up in the second half and only allowed six points to the pleasing fans of many. Woodyard and Kelley combined for 26 tackles alone maybe hinting at a little halftime spill by the coach telling those guys to step it up because the talents of Kent St won't amount to what they will go up against in the SEC this year. So congrats to these kids, Kentucky is 2-0 going up against L'ville, a top 10 opponent, this weekend which should be a dandy, Brohm vs Woodson.

Fantasy

I didn't do as well as I would have hoped. Woodson was in fantasy terms decent but could've been better, but I'll credit Kent St's D for that. They did hang with us for one half. Here's where I stand on the year …

Week 1 Actual: 66 Earned: 40
Week 2 Actual: 47 Earned: 56
Diff: -57

Game Blog Nominees

Here are this week's Week 2 Game Blog Nominees vs Kent St. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong I suppose or maybe even agree with me.

#4 Rafael Little
Little ran 102 yards on 13 carries averaging over 7 yds a carry. That's game blog material, yo!

#3 Keenan Burton
Keenan showed us why he's still #1 WR for UK with 109 yds receiving and a score. Lyons and Tamme were quiet while sleeper pick wideout Stevie Johnson made a showing.

#2 Braxton KelleyKelley totalled 11 tackles for the game and for a defense that showed up in the second half of this game, that's reason enough this kid gets number two.

#1 Wesley Woodyard
Woodyard led Kentucky with 15 tackles and combined with Kelley totalled over 25 tackles which helped lead Kentucky to a second half rout of Kent St. Woodyard more than held his own here. Well done. Now it's time to see this type of performance against ninth ranked Louisville this Saturday.

Items of Interest

· Basketball: It's official, Tracy Webster is Giddyup's third and final assistant coach, who also was the lead recruiter in Darius Miller's recruiting. My question is what took so long?

· Little has good chance to put up huge numbers as he leads the team in rushing, however, as pointed out by Jody Demling it's not all Little. In fact, in my opinion, the healthier Little is, the more opportunity guys like Dixon will score the TDs, you know except when Little busts a 50 yarder on ya. Either way, it bids well for UK this week that he's healthy.

‘ "Rafael's had a great career for us, and two years ago he's all we had," UK coach Rich Brooks said. "Now we have some other things to go with him." ’

Reason enough in that statement that we'll be seeing more Dixon as well - possibly in goalline situations?

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