BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Sophomore Tim Couch shattered a 47-year-old school record withseven touchdown passes — four to Craig Yeast — as Kentuckykept the “Bourbon Barrel” for a third consecutive year with a49-7 pasting of Indiana.
Couch, who had tossed four touchdown passes each of the last twogames, broke Babe Parilli’s record of five TD passes in one gameset October 14th, 1950 against Cincinnati and tied November18th, 1950 against North Dakota.
Couch was 24-of-32 for 334 yards as the Wildcats piled up 546 total yards.
With 15 touchdown passes, Couch moved into third on Kentucky’sall-time single-season list. Parilli threw 23 TDs in 1950 and19 more in 1951.
Couch found Yeast with a 12-yard touchdown pass just 104 secondsinto the game. Yeast also caught scoring passes of seven and sixyards in the second quarter as Kentucky opened a 21-0 halftimelead.
The Wildcats extended their lead to 42-0 midway through thethird quarter when they scored three times in a 4:24 span. KevinColeman sandwiched scoring catches of 20 and 11 yards around KioSanford’s 37-yard touchdown reception.
Yeast tied Al Bruno’s school record set against North Dakota in1950 when he caught a 10-yard scoring pass with 32 seconds to goin the period. Yeast finished with six catches for 58 yards.
Dwayne Hogan scored on a one-yard plunge in the fourth quarterfor Indiana (1-2), which scored late to avoid its worst shutoutsince being blanked 56-0 by Ohio State on October 18th, 1957.
Kentucky (2-1) trails the Bourbon Barrel series, 16-11-1.