The Streak is Dead!

When the Kentucky football team toppled the Florida Gators for the first time in 31 years, it was a sign that more great things are coming for the Wildcats.

The Kentucky Wildcats have beaten the Florida Gators! The streak and 31 years of suffering are over! Tim Tebow is irrelevant, Chris Doering is irrelevant, the uncovered receiver is irrelevant. It’s all over!

We got the monkey off our back and we did it on their field, and we did it in classic Kentucky fashion. Not only did the Cats break the streak, they were the far better team on the field. They were better than Florida in every position on the field, now when is the last time you were able to say that?

Kentucky dominated Florida throughout all three sides of the game and they should have! This was a game that Kentucky was supposed to win! Kentucky was supposed to win? How? They haven’t won in 31 years; how could we even fathom a win?

Florida has been on a downward spiral for years and they just cannot seem to realize it. Florida fans lack the self-awareness that they need to realize that they are irrelevant now and have been for some time. If you spoke to any average Gator fan, then they would speak like Tim Tebow is still playing and Spurrier is coming back to take them home.

They’re nothing anymore, they are a middle of the pack SEC East team and that is all they will ever be again. Kentucky however is on the up and up. Mark Stoops has done literally everything that can be expected of a coach at the University of Kentucky. Stoops has beaten Louisville with the Heisman winner, Tennessee who we’ve beaten once in 30 plus years, then he goes and ends the Florida streak. What more can you ask for from our coach?

Yes, I said our coach because that is what he is…our coach. There should be no more fire Stoops chatter and no more questioning his calls because whether we like it or not, the man wins. Two straight seven-win seasons wins over our rivals, and on the way to another seven-win season, at least. What more can he do?

A better question to ask would be, what more can Benny Snell Jr. do? Benny Snell can do no wrong, he ran for 175 yards against an SEC defense. He is the best back in the SEC and he continues to back that up. Everyone continues to doubt him, and he continues to silence them. He is the best back in the SEC, he is the best player in Kentucky football history, and we don’t even realize it.

With every snap Snell plays, he continues to rewrite the record book, he will become the rushing king before his time is done and he will do it in just three years. Imagine what he could do if he stayed for his senior year. We have the rare time where we can just sit back and take solace in the fact that we are better than Florida. When is the last time that we could say that?

There are issues with the team that are staring us in the face, but we aren’t talking about that right now. It’s celebration time, it’s the rare time that we get to dream at an outside shot of going to Atlanta. Through years of misery and pain, how often do we get moments like this? When do we ever get to sit and dream about what might be? Rather than what might have been?

The SEC east is wide open…after Georgia, why can’t Kentucky take that spot? “Because we are Kentucky football?” That is no longer a valid answer. They have the talent to back it up and they are going to back it up. You heard it here first, Kentucky will destroy Tennessee and Louisville. Kentucky will upset Mississippi State, and will finish the season 9-3.

This seems like an arrogant prediction and one that is quite premature. Rest assured that this team is special and will break all the barriers usually reserved for only Kentucky football. The toughest is out-of-the-way. The streak is dead! What’s next? The team only has one obstacle in the way…themselves.