Kentucky Football: Perfect fall football weather for Blue and Orange duel

Ok, Big Blue Nation here it is the biggest game left as the Kentucky football team starts the final third of the season the weather will be perfect for an old-fashioned fall duel the way it’s meant to be played.

It’s been a bit chilly this week, but it’s setting up to be ideal fall football weather in the Bluegrass and Kentucky hosts rival Tennessee Saturday night under the lights at Kroger Field with kickoff set for 7 pm.

The fall meet at Keenland has ended so grab all your favorite tailgating gear, family and friends, and Big Blue gear and tailgate all day. Temperatures are due to hit 56 degrees under clear and bright sunny skies making it feel like 59 degrees and maybe 7 mile per hour winds.

Kentucky football was off this same weekend last year on its bye week after suffering losses to Missouri and Georgia. It’s nearly the same scenario this year with the Wildcats mired in a two-game losing streak to Georgia and Mississippi State with their bye squeezed in between.

Kentucky football under the lights on a beautiful fall day a perfect picture

With their playoff ranking and New Year’s Day Six bowl shot hanging in the balance this team needs all of BBN to show up loud and proud. You know the Vols will get orange into the stadium but that needs to be a quiet little dot in the corner surrounded by crowds we saw against Florida and LSU.

Sunset is at 6:34 pm and it should be a beautiful site watching both the orange sunset to the west and hopefully setting up to send the Vols back to Knoxville with a loss.

In night games (anything after 6 pm) this season Kentucky is 4-1 with the nightmare before Halloween 31-17 loss to Mississippi State being the lone blemish.

Since 2016 when Kentucky started to turn things around under Mark Stoops his Kentucky teams have gone 19-10 in night games including this season. That was skewed by the 3-4 record they had in 2019.

However, their November record is just 10-10. The schedule favors this to tilt that more to the win column this year potentially going 4-0. That however starts with beating Tennessee this weekend.

November records:

2016    2-2

2017    1-3

2018    2-2

2019    3-1

2020    2-2

Kentucky has one final home game on the slate two weeks from Saturday when a terrible New Mexico State team that has won just once this season comes to Lexington. By then this Kentucky team will be either shining bright with consecutive wins or a loss on Saturday may see it set on what was looking like an amazing season after starting 6-0.

Rowdy and boisterous show up outside and inside you couldn’t ask for a better day to enjoy the festivities and follow that up with a beautiful night under the stars in Commonwealth.