KENTUCKY POSTGAME NOTES
Kentucky at Mississippi State
Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, Miss.
Sept. 21, 2019
 
FINAL SCORE: Mississippi State 28, Kentucky 13
 
Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky is 2-2, 0-2 in the Southeastern Conference.  Mississippi State is 3-1, 1-0 in the league.
• Mississippi State leads the series, 24-23.
• Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats have their only back-to-back road games of the season as UK visits South Carolina on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. It will be televised on the SEC Network.

 
Player Notes

• UK’s game capts: OG Logan Stenberg, DL Calvin Taylor, LB Josh Paschal and athlete Lynn Bowden Jr.
• Junior athlete Lynn Bowden Jr. caught seven passes for 129 yards, his first 100-yard game of the season and second of his career.
  • Now has 1,285 career receiving yards, moving past seven players for 18^th place on the UK career receiving yardage list.
  • Now has 111 career receptions, moving into 15^th place on the UK career list. 
  • He is the first UK player with at least six receptions in each of the first four games since James Whalen in 1999.
  • Has caught a pass in 18 consecutive games.
  • Also rushed three times for 37 yards and had 210 all-purpose yards on the day.
• Junior WR Josh Ali caught five passes for 61 yards, both career highs.
• Redshirt freshman RB Kavosiey Smoke rushed for 25 yards, including a two-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
• Junior RB Asim “AJ” Rose rushed nine times for 105 yards, averaging 11.7 yards per carry.
  • It is his first 100-yard game of the season and third of his career. 
• Junior CB Brandin Echols got a sack/caused fumble in the third quarter, his first for both plays at Kentucky.  He had a career-high 10 tackles.
  • Redshirt freshman CB Jamari Brown recovered the fumble, his first as a Wildcat.
• Sophomore S Yusuf Corker had the first two pass breakups of his career and tied his career high for tackles with seven.
• Sophomore LB DeAndre Square had nine tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss and a sack.  
• Junior DE Kordell Looney and junior S Quandre Mosely made their first collegiate starts.
  • Mosely made his first UK interception in the second quarter, with a 39-yard return.