Kentucky football: Top 10 passing leaders in school history

10. Randy Jenkins

Passing stats: 4,148 yards, 24 TD, 53 INT

Ouch. Randy Jenkins sure passed for a lot of yards, but more often than not – literally more than double the time – his passes ended in interceptions instead of touchdowns.

I’ll give Jenkins a pass. He played from 1979-83 before the passing game took over football, so it’s hard to say how he would’ve translated to modern-day college football, with an emphasis on that part of the game.

With that being said, not all QBs in that era of football had such a poor TD-INT ratio.

To give Jenkins some credit, he put together a respectable final year in Lexington, passing for 1,272 yards with a 58.1 completion % and 10 TD to 10 INT.

Considering Jenkins threw for – brace yourself – 2 TD and 20 INT the year before, that’s quite the turnaround. His heroics helped the Wildcats go from 0-10-1 in 1982, to 6-5-1 the next season.

Is Jenkins a Kentucky football legend? I wouldn’t go that far, but he can say he’s a part of one of the greatest turnarounds in CFB history. That has to mean something.