Kentucky-Ohio Postgame Notes

KENTUCKY FOOTBALL POSTGAME NOTES

OHIO at KENTUCKY

KROGER FIELD – LEXINGTON, KY.

SEPT. 21, 2024

FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 41, Ohio 6

Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky and Ohio are each 2-2 on the season.
• The Wildcats lead the Bobcats, 5-2, in the all-time series, with all games played in Lexington.

Next Game

• Kentucky has its first road game of the season Saturday, Sept. 28, at Ole Miss.
  • The game time is noon ET (11 a.m. CT in Oxford), and it will be televised on ABC or ESPN.

Team Notes

• The Wildcats have won their last 18 straight regular-season nonconference games, the second-longest active streak in the nation.
• UK has won 16 straight nonconference games at Kroger Field.
• Thanks to Maxwell Hairston’s pick-six in the third quarter, this is the fifth straight season Kentucky has had an interception returned for touchdown.
  • It is the first time UK has assembled five straight seasons with a pick-six since 1968-72.
  • Should Iowa not record a pick six today, Kentucky, Iowa and Ohio State are tied for first in the nation in most pick sixes (11) since 2020.
  • Kentucky has earned at least one turnover in each game (four) this season.
• Kentucky limited Ohio to 223 yards.  UK entered the game ninth in the nation in total defense.
  • UK has kept all four opponents under 300 yards this season, first time since the 2019 team did it five games in a row.
• UK has allowed 50 points this season, fewest in the first four games of the season since 2008 (22 points in first four games).
• UK allowed 200 yards passing or less in each of the first four games this season for the first time since 1989.
• This marks the 28th consecutive season that UK has scored at least 37 points in a game, since 1997.

Coach Mark Stoops

• Mark Stoops is in his 12th season as Kentucky’s head coach, a school record for the most seasons as the UK head coach and has the longest term of any current Southeastern Conference coach.
• Stoops extended his school records for most total victories (65) and home victories (46).

Player Notes

• QB Brock Vandagriff completed a career-high 17 of his 24 pass attempts for a career-high 237 yards.
  • He began the game 7-of-7 for 69 yards.
• WR Barion Brown had five catches for 28 yards, while also recording a 23-yard touchdown rushing on his lone rush of the game.
  • It marked his first rushing touchdown of the season and second of his career.
• WR Dane Key made a career-high-tying seven catches for a career-high 145 yards, including making a season-best 42-yard reception in the game.
  • It marked his second 100-yard game of his career, and his first this season.
  • He moved up eight spots – from 23rd to 15th – on the program’s career receiving list, with 1,419 yards.
• RB Demie Sumo-Karngbaye had 12 rushes for 47 yards and a career-high two touchdowns.
  • He added three receptions for 38 yards.
• RB Jamarion Wilcox had eight carries for a career-high 82 yards.
• DB Maxwell Hairston had a tackle and a 25-yard, pick-six in the third quarter.
  • Hairston tied the school record – also owned by Dallas Owens (1974-77) – for most career interceptions returned for touchdowns with three.
  • Hairston now has six interceptions for his career.
• DL’s Tre’vonn Rybka and Deone Walker an LB’s D’Eryk Jackson and Jamon Dumas-Johnson tied for the team high with four tackles apiece.
  • Rybka (-3 yards) and Walker (-5 yards) had a tackle for loss apiece.
• K Alex Raynor extended his streak to 12 straight field goals – a stretch that began last season against Tennessee at Kroger Field on Oct. 28, 2023 – with two connections in today’s game.
  • His 12 straight field goals are a school record for most consecutive field goals.
    • The previous record was 11 by Austin MacGinnis, who did it twice – in the 2014-15 season and the 2017 season.
    • He has broken school records in two straight games, including his 55-yarder made last week against No. 1/1 Georgia on Sept. 14,
  • He opened the scoring with a 30-yard field goal in the first quarter and added a 34-yarder in the third quarter.
  • Raynor is now 19-of-20 at field goals and 57-of-58 at extra points in his career at Kentucky.
• Freshman TE Willie Rodriguez made his first collegiate start.

Game Captains

• DL Deone Walker, C Eli Cox, OT Marques Cox, LB J.J. Weaver