Kentucky-Tennessee Postgame Notes

KENTUCKY FOOTBALL POSTGAME NOTES
TENNESSEE AT KENTUCKY
KROGER FIELD AT C.M. NEWTON GROUNDS
OCT. 25, 2025

FINAL SCORE: No. 17/17 Tennessee 56, Kentucky 34

Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky is 2-5 overall, 0-5 in the Southeastern Conference. Tennessee is 6-2 overall, 3-2 in league action.
• Tennessee leads the series, 86-26-9, including 41-15-3 in games played in Lexington.

Next Game

• Kentucky plays at Auburn on Saturday, Nov. 1. The game time is 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT in Auburn) and will be televised on the SEC Network.

Team Notes

• Kentucky’s 34 points against Tennessee are its most against a ranked team since scoring 35 against No. 22 Clemson on Dec. 29, 2023.
• Kentucky has scored at least 34 points in three of the last six meetings vs. Tennessee.
• This is the first time in school history that UK has scored at least 27 points in three consecutive home games vs. Tennessee.
• UK’s 476 yards total offense is the most vs. Tennessee since 2021.
  • It’s the most against a ranked Tennessee team since 2007 (564 yards).
  • It’s the most against a ranked opponent since 2022 against Mississippi State (478).
• This is the first time UK has had at least 25 first downs in consecutive SEC games since 2016 vs. Mississippi State and Missouri.
• This was the first time UK had two touchdown passes of at least 56 yards in the same game since Sept. 24, 2022 against Northern Illinois.
• The last time a UK quarterback had five touchdown passes in a game was Andre’ Woodson, who had six vs. Tennessee in 2007.
• The 71-yard touchdown pass from Cutter Boley to Kendrick Law in the first quarter was UK’s longest pass play since Gavin Wimsatt’s 83-yard TD toss to Ja’Mori Maclin last season against Louisville last November.
• Kentucky had a 16-play, 96-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter, taking 8:35 off the clock, which are season longs in all three categories.
• The last time UK had a pair of 100-yard receivers in the same game was against Northern Illinois in 2022 (Tayvion Robinson and Barion Brown).
  • It’s the first time to have two 100-yard receivers against an SEC opponent since La’Rod King and Matt Roark vs. Ole Miss in 2011.
• This is the first time UK has had a running back with at least seven catches in consecutive games since 2010 (Donald Russell and Raymond Sanders vs. South Carolina and Georgia, respectively).

Player Notes

• QB Cutter Boley completed 26-of-35 pass attempts for a career-best 330 yards and a career-best five touchdowns.
  • Five touchdown passes is a UK freshman record. The previous record was three by Morgan Newton (2009) and Jared Lorenzen (2000).
  • Five TD passes are the most since Andre’ Woodson threw for six TDs against Tennessee in 2007.
  • His 330 passing yards are the most for a UK freshman since Jared Lorenzen threw for 385 yards vs. Vanderbilt in 2000.
  • The 71-yard touchdown pass from Cutter Boley to Kendrick Law was UK’s longest pass play since Gavin Wimsatt’s 83-yard TD toss to Ja’Mori Maclin last season against Louisville last season.
  • Boley is the first UK quarterback with two touchdown passes of at least 56 yards in the same game since Will Levis against Northern Illinois on Sept. 24, 2022.
    • First time two touchdown passes of at least 56 yards vs. an SEC opponent since Patrick Towles vs. Mississippi State in 2014.
  • Boley is the first UK player to pass for at least 300 yards since Devin Leary against Clemson in the 2023 TaxSlayer Bowl (306).
  • This is the first UK quarterback to complete at least 74.3 percent of his passes (min. 30 attempts) in consecutive games since Dusty Bonner in 1999.
  • First UK quarterback with at least 26 completions in consecutive games since 2015 (Patrick Towles) and consecutive conference games since 2010 (Mike Hartline).
• RB Dante Dowdell rushed 12 times for a team-high 52 yards.
  • He surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for his career, including his time at Oregon and Nebraska, and now has 1,030 rushing yards as a collegian.
• RB Jason Patterson rushed a team-high and career-high 16 times for 51 yards, while he also had a team-high and career-high seven receptions for 44 yards.
• WR DJ Miller had five catches on all five of his targets for a team-best and career-best 120 yards and two touchdowns.
  • He had a career-long, 56-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter, the first of his college career, followed by a 28-yarder in the third quarter,
  • He tied the school record – with seven others – for most touchdown pass receptions by a freshman in a game with two.
    • He is the first since Dane Key and Barion Brown both did so in 2022.
  • He also is just the seventh freshman in school history with a 100-yard receiving game and just the eighth such performance.
• WR Kendrick Law had two catches for a career-high 103 yards and one touchdown.
  • Included was a career-long, 71-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter.
  • It was the program’s longest since Gavin Wimsatt’s connection to Ja’Mori Maclin against Louisville in 2024 (83 yards).
  • It is his first career 100-yard receiving game.
• WR J.J. Hester had the first reception and touchdown catch at Kentucky in tonight’s game. He made a career-high-tying four receptions for 23 yards and a career-high two touchdowns.
• DB JQ Hardaway led the team with six tackles.
• LB Daveren Rayner had two tackles and his first sack (-11 yards) since 2022.
• K Jacob Kauwe added 5-of-5 on PAT, improving to 20-of-20 for his season / his career. 

Game Captains

• C Jager Burton, DL Tayvion Gadson, TE Josh Kattus, S Jordan Lovett