KENTUCKY POSTGAME NOTES
Murray State at Kentucky
Kroger Field, Lexington, Ky.
Sept. 15, 2018
 
FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 48, Murray State 10
 
Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky is 3-0. Murray State is 0-3. 
• Kentucky leads the series 2-0. The previous game was a 37-6 UK home victory in 2003.
• UK is 11-0 against teams from the Ohio Valley Conference.
• Next for the Wildcats: on Sept. 22, UK plays host to Mississippi State.  Game time is at 7 p.m. and the television channel is TBA.

 
Team Notes

• UK moves to 3-0 for the second straight season. That is the first time that has been accomplished since the 2007-08 seasons.
• UK has won eight of its last nine regular-season non-conference games.
• UK is 11-3 in its last 14 home games.
• UK is 12-5 in its last 17 regular season games.
• UK is 20-5 in September over the last five seasons.
• With UK scoring 48 points today, the Wildcats have scored at least 38 points in one game for 22 consecutive seasons, since 1997.  It is the second-longest such streak in the SEC.
  • LSU has a longer streak, since 1993, but has not scored 38 in a game so far this season.
• UK took the opening kickoff of the game and drove 91 yards for a touchdown. It was the second game in a row that the Wildcats had a 91-yard TD drive on their first possession of the game.
• UK scored on eight of its nine offensive possessions during the game.
• With 245 rushing yards today, UK has 847 for the season. That’s the most for the Wildcats through three games since 1987 (892 that year).
• UK has had at least 427 yards total offense in the first three games, first time that has been accomplished since the first three games of the 2010 season.
• UK has allowed 917 total yards this season, fewest in the first three games since 2010 (773 that year).
• UK has allowed zero points in the third quarter this season, first time to do that in the first three games since 1991.
• UK completed 77.4 percent of its passes today, 24 of 31, the best completion percentage in a game (min. 30 attempts) since 1999 at Indiana.
• Six offensive players scored touchdowns today, first time that has happened since the Kent State game in 2012.
• UK converted 6 of 12 third-downs today, 50 percent.  UK has been at least 50 percent on third-down conversions in all three games this season, first time since doing it vs. Arkansas, South Carolina and LSU in 1998.

 
Player Notes

• UK’s game captains were TE C.J. Conrad, RB Benny Snell, Jr., OT George Asafo-Adjei and LB Kash Daniel.
• Sophomore quarterback Terry Wilson completed 19 of 25 for 163 yards, career highs in all three categories.
  • Wilson rushed 13 times for 80 yards and game’s first score a 42-yard run in the first quarter.
  • He became the first UK quarterback to win his first three starts since Mike Hartline in 2008.
• Junior running back Benny Snell, Jr. rushed 15 times for 75 yards and one touchdown.
  • Has 2,799 career yards, remaining in fifth place on the UK career rushing list.
  • Now has 35 touchdowns, two shy of Randall Cobb’s UK career record.
  • Was credited with a 43-yard touchdown pass when he flipped a short forward pass to Terry Wilson, who lateraled to Zy’Aire Hughes, who then ran the rest of the way for the TD.
• Sophomore quarterback Gunnar Hoak completed 4 of 5 passes for 77 yards and a touchdown, the second TD pass of his career.
• Senior wide receiver Dorian Baker caught four passes for 25 yards.  He now has 1,061 career receiving yards, advancing past Derek Homer (1,052) for 26^th place on the UK career receiving yardage list.
• Sophomore wide receiver Lynn Bowden, Jr. set career highs with eight receptions for 89 yards.
• Sophomore wide receiver Zy’Aire Hughes scored touchdown on a pass play after receiving a lateral.  It was the first time he had touched the ball in college.
  • The play went for 43 yards; Hughes was credited with 49 receiving yards after receiving the lateral behind the line of scrimmage.
• Freshman wide receiver Allen Dailey, Jr. made his first collegiate catches, two receptions for 38 yards and a touchdown. 
• Redshirt freshman quarterback Danny Clark saw his first action and capped a drive with a two-yard touchdown run.
• Freshman running back Christopher Rodriguez, Jr. saw his first action and bulldozed two carries for 43 yards.
• Senior kicker Miles Butler had his first field goal attempts of the season and converted from 40 and 38 yards. He has made all 14 extra points this season.
• Senior safety Mike Edwards led the Wildcats with five tackles, including a five-yard tackle for loss, and added a quarterback hurry.
• Freshman linebacker Jamin Davis made four tackles and claimed his first career interception and added a pass breakup.
• Freshman noseguard Marquan McCall made three tackles, including his first career quarterback sack, and caused a fumble.
• Senior linebacker Jordan Jones had two tackles and a career-high four pass breakups.
• Senior noseguard Tymere Dubose made his first collegiate start.