Understandably, Jojo Kemp was tired.On a potential game-tying fourth quarter drive against South Carolina, Kemp was carrying the load for Kentucky but he needed a break. He signaled as much to the sideline, but the Wildcats couldn’t afford not to have him in the game.And on the very next play, Kemp unleashed his longest run of the night.”He put the team on his back,” Stoops said. “He was trying to come out of the game once. I said, ‘That’s it; no more. You stay in there, grind it out.’ And he did.”After that 43-yard run out of the Wildcat formation, Kemp stayed down on the left sideline. Completely exhausted, he finally got up and limped off after cheers of “Jojo, Jojo!” rang through Commonwealth Stadium. He needed only a one-play break before reentering and scoring from five yards out to tie the game.”I ain’t gonna lie, I was gassed,” Kemp said. “But I had to lay it on the line for my team. We’ve been working so hard and I’ve been wanting to show the fans what our hard work has been doing so far and it finally paid off.”It paid off in the form of a 45-38 victory, one that sent UK (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) to a second consecutive SEC win. Star defensive end/linebacker Bud Dupree scored the game-winning touchdown, snaring a pass fellow senior Mike Douglas batted into the air and returning it six yards.”Bud is a heck of an athlete,” Kemp said. “Bud, he’s great. He’s a great leader and we kind of did this for the seniors tonight.”The seniors may have been the inspiration, but it was a sophomore who carried the heaviest load.Kentucky, having already overcome a 14-0 first-half deficit to take a 24-17 lead, found itself trailing 38-24 when Mike Davis sprinted 26 yards for a touchdown with 11:45 left. It was at that point that most teams would turn to the pass to make a comeback, but the Cats went the other direction.”I really liked what we were doing coming into the game,” offensive coordinator Neal Brown said. “I thought we were right on schedule with our plan and I knew if we just stayed with it. … I knew if we just stayed the course I felt like we were playing well enough up front that we could get back in the game.”Brown would call on Patrick Towles – who played a solid game, completing 20-of-29 passes for 208 yards and a touchdown – to throw just one pass as the Cats mounted a furious rally. In fact, Towles was split out wide more often than not in the formation that’s come to known as the “WildKemp.””I’ll take it,” Towles said. “I probably didn’t expect that we’d do it that much, but if it’s productive why go away from it?”Productive might be an understatement. Kemp ran 17 times for a career-high 131 yards to go with three touchdowns. In the fourth quarter alone, he piled up 116 yards and two scores on 14 carries. “I felt like at the end of the game if we got in it we could get rolling,” Brown said. “I thought the fourth quarter having success on first down was huge for us. I really felt like we had enough time to stay in it and we did. Jojo did a great job. He’s going to get a lot of the credit, but we blocked really well up front.”Kemp doesn’t disagree. “My o-line, they were out there hungry, fighting for every yard I got,” Kemp said. “So I gotta give the praise to my o-line.”The Wildcat formation has become a mainstay of the UK offense over the last two weeks. Against Vanderbilt, the Cats used it to salt away a win. Against South Carolina, it was the means to a thrilling comeback. “What happens is you bring the motion, so you gotta defend the motion because that’s two of our better players, whether it was Javess (Blue) or (Ryan) Timmons coming in, you gotta defend the sweep,” Brown said. “And then all the motion, the defenders gotta move, can’t play it downhill as much. And Jojo’s got a really good feel for it. You have to be patient.”Brown has been patient in his Wildcat play-calling as well, keeping an ace of a trick play up his sleeve until the first drive of the second half. In the first, UK scored both its touchdowns off Wildcat looks, first with Kemp and later on a 38-yard burst by Braylon Heard. The trap set, Brown called for an end around to Blue off the Wildcat and reverse to Towles. Timmons wide open by 25 yards, Towles threw deep for a 48-yard touchdown.”That was the first trick play I think we’ve hit it right since I’ve been here,” Brown said. “We used to hit those all the time at Tech and Troy. So that was fun. It was a big play in the game. You talk about–that place was loud. When we hit that and Timmons scored, this place was electric.”It was even more electric after Kemp’s final three carries of the night.After Dupree’s interception return, the UK defense came up with yet another stop when Ashely Lowery picked off a Dylan Thompson pass. Needing just one first down to kill the final 1:31, Brown unsurprisingly called Kemp’s number.With some help from a South Carolina offsides penalty, the Cats picked up that first down with three carries by Kemp. When the official measurement revealed that Kemp had reached the line to gain, it touched off a raucous field-rushing situation.”I gave a lot (of high-fives), but I was just trying to get my breathing,” Kemp said. “I was gassed.”He had enough energy to make a short walk in the postgame locker room when his coach summoned him.”Jojo, so proud of Jojo,” Stoops said. “I think that was, other than some special guests we have sometimes when we honor somebody, that was the first game ball I gave out tonight. Called JoJo up and gave him a game ball. Because just sheer determination that he had.”