I've been preaching on here for over a month now that UK was winning with smoke, mirrors and pure luck and that everyone chalking our matchup up as a loss was giving this UK team too much credit.
I've been saying all season - UKS PASS DEFENSE IS NOT GOOD.
UT - 15-20 316 yards 4 TDs (I've never in my life seen a time of possession disaprity as bad as it was in the UT/UK game. UT only had the ball for 13:52 and scored 45 POINTS! UK had the ball for 46:08!)
Miss State - 36-39 344 yards 1 TD
UGA - 14-20 - 250 yards 3 TDs
UKs pass defense has allow their last 3 QBs to go 65-79 83% 910 yards 8 TDs and no interceptions....and all 3 of those QBs are mediocre QBs. Not on the level of Corral, Hartman, Gabriel, or Armstrong.
EVERYONE on this board has complained (rightfully so) about how bad our pass defense has been for much of this season. If we take the 4 BEST QBs we've played this year - Corral, Gabriel, Hartman, Armstrong it puts UKs pass defense into some context. Against those 4 QBs our terrible pass defense held those 4 guys to:
107-161 - 66%
1,376 yards
9 TDs
4 interceptions
So...as bad as our pass defense has been, it generates more turnovers against much better passing offenses and against much better QBs. 3 of those 4 QBs play for the #1, #4, #6 offenses in the country right now and the only reason UCF isn't there in the top 25 is because of Gabriel's injury.
In more context our defense faced on average 41 pass attempts and allowed them to complete 66% of those against those 4 guys and allowed a little over 340 yards per game. UKs defense faced on average 26 pass attempts and allowed them to complete 83% of them for a around 304 yards. Our defense allowed 8.3 per attempt and UKs allowed 11.7. On average the UK pass defense has allowed their last 3 QBs to go 22-26 for 304 yards, thats 13.8 yards per completion. UofLs defense has allowed QBs to go 27-41 for 344 yards 12.7 yards per completion. What I'm saying is even if you take the best QBs we've faced, and the best offenses we've faced - our defense that everyone has hated all year has performed better than UKs.
As a matter of fact UK has played 4 top 50 offenses UT-21, UF-16, UGA-44, Missouri-40. (We currently rank 32) They were handled from kickoff to the final whistle by UT and UGA, we're handled in every facet of the game against UF and only won because of a fluke blocked kick and against Missouri they allowed 400 yards and needed a late 4th quarter TD to beat the currently 4-5 Tigers. So this team has struggled against decent offenses.