KENTUCKY POSTGAME NOTES
Florida at Kentucky
Kroger Field, Lexington, Ky.
Sept. 14, 2019
 
FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 21, Florida 29
 
Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky is 2-1, 0-1 in the Southeastern Conference.  Florida is 3-0, 1-0 in the league.
• Florida leads the series, 52-18.
• Next for Kentucky will be a road trip to Mississippi State on Saturday, Sept. 21. Game time is 4 p.m. EDT (3 p.m. CDT in Starkville) and it will be televised on the SEC Network or SEC Network alternate channel. 

 
Team Notes

• UK has made 124 consecutive extra points, the ninth-longest active streak in the nation. 
• Kentucky outrushed the Gators 140-138.
• The Wildcats won the time of possession battle, 34:55-25:05
• Tonight’s attendance of 63,076 is the fifth-largest since the renovation of the stadium in 2015.

 
Player Notes

• UK’s game captains: OG Logan Stenberg, QB Terry Wilson, LB Kash Daniel and ATH Lynn Bowden Jr.

  • The honorary captain was record-setting quarterback Andre’ Woodson (2004-07), Most Valuable Player of the 2006 and ’07 Music City Bowls and 2019 UK Athletics Hall of Fame inductee.  
• Junior quarterback Sawyer Smith made his first start at Kentucky.  He went 13-of-35 for 267 yards and two touchdowns. Smith did throw three interceptions.
  • Completed his first nine passes of the game before his first incompletion with 1:59 remaining in the second quarter.
  • Smith is the second UK quarterback since 1993 with two passing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown in his first career start. The other to accomplish that was Jared Lorenzen vs. Louisville in 2000.
  • His 267 passing yards are the most for a UK quarterback in his first career start since Patrick Towles vs. UT Martin in 2014 (377).
• Junior athlete Lynn Bowden Jr. caught seven passes for 70 yards.
  • Now has 104 catches in his career, becoming the 17^th player in Kentucky history with at least 100 receptions in his career. 
  • Now has 1,156+ career receiving yards, moving past Dorian Baker for 25th place on the UK career receiving yardage list.
  • He is the first UK player with at least six receptions in each of the first three games since James Whalen in 1999.
  • Has caught a pass in 17 consecutive games.
  • He is the third quickest to 100 career receptions in terms of games played (29 games). Anthony White accomplished the feat in 21 games and Derek Abney did it in 22 games.
• Senior WR Ahmad Wagner caught three passes for 70 yards and a touchdown.
• Redshirt freshman RB Kavosiey Smoke rushed a game-high 16 times for 81 yards.
  • The 16 rushing attempts was a career high.
• Junior RB Asim “AJ” Rose rushed 14 times for 46 yards.
• Senior TE Justin Rigg had five receptions for 50 yards, both career highs.
• Freshman TE Keaton Upshaw had his first collegiate touchdown with a 13-yard catch in the third quarter.
• Junior DT Kordell Looney had a sack/caused fumble in the second quarter and freshman S Taj Dodson recovered the fumble – for both players, the first such plays of their careers.
• Junior CB Brandin Echols and junior QB Sawyer Smith each made his first start at Kentucky.