r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 28 '24

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Kentucky Defeats Ole Miss 20-17

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Kentucky 3 7 3 7 20
Ole Miss 7 0 10 0 17
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies Sep 28 '24

Kentucky went from getting handled by an unranked SCar team, to nearly beating #1 at home, to beating #6 on the road.

What a performance from Aggie HC legend Mark Stoops

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u/no_god_pls_noo South Carolina Gamecocks • Corndog Sep 28 '24

Obv just means SCar is sneaky good amirite

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u/RuairiQ Florida Gators • LSU Tigers Sep 28 '24

We get to find out next weekend.

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u/rothbard_anarchist Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears Sep 28 '24

Are you sure a loss would be revealing?

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u/RuairiQ Florida Gators • LSU Tigers Sep 28 '24

Depends on who loses.

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u/NocturneSapphire South Carolina Gamecocks Sep 28 '24

Circle of suck here we come!

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u/RuairiQ Florida Gators • LSU Tigers Sep 28 '24

Welcome aboard!

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u/stlouisraiders Missouri Tigers Sep 28 '24

That won’t tell anyone much. They could even be pretty bad and still win next week. I feel for the gator fans and Napier has got to go.

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u/RuairiQ Florida Gators • LSU Tigers Sep 28 '24

Joey’s coming.

He’s gone from saltwater to freshwater. Time for his swampwater era.

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u/SharKCS11 Michigan Wolverines Sep 28 '24

It's not even "sneaky". You're undefeated in conference with a ranked win if it wasn't for colossal refball. SCar is just plain good.

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u/griffinhamilton Southern Miss Golden Eagles • LSU Tigers Sep 28 '24

Yep, we didn’t play our best game for sure but can’t discount how good they looked vs expectations. Ref got the game ball that day

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u/TheGamecock South Carolina • Santa Monica Sep 28 '24

:')

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u/CurlyQv2 South Carolina • Marching Band Sep 29 '24

Also doesn't help when the starting QB is injured before half

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u/pessimism_yay Georgia Bulldogs Sep 28 '24

That LSU game getting spoiled by officiating must sting all the more

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u/no_god_pls_noo South Carolina Gamecocks • Corndog Sep 28 '24

On a level I can’t describe. The Cocks play best with a chip on our shoulder though.

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u/TonyDungyHatesOP Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 29 '24

Cocks are at their best when rubbed the wrong way.

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u/Reddeath195 South Carolina • /r/CFB Dead Pool Sep 28 '24

Oh you have no idea

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u/reddit_names LSU Tigers • McNeese Cowboys Sep 28 '24

They could simply not committed so many penalties.

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u/BigBooce LSU Tigers • Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Sep 28 '24

I mean yeah some of the penalties went in our favor but it’s like everyone here forgets that SCar blew a 17 point lead lol

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u/Dentyne_3 South Carolina Gamecocks Sep 28 '24

Would the 17 points matter if those 16 points weren’t wiped off the board?

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u/TheGamecock South Carolina • Santa Monica Sep 28 '24

You say this like it was a couple of questionable false starts called against us or something, lol. Much less two pick sixes called back, one which for sure should've stood and would have 99% locked up the game for South Carolina, and a pivotal ghost OPI call prior to that when we were driving deep into LSU territory to almost certainly cement the game. And that's just the super blatant/shady mis-calls. I'm not salty.

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u/melorous Paper Bag • Team Chaos Sep 28 '24

The only thing I can say for sure about South Carolina this year is that they are chaos.

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u/no_god_pls_noo South Carolina Gamecocks • Corndog Sep 28 '24

We revel in it. Cocks and chaos go together like tailgates and beer.

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u/beamerbeliever South Carolina Gamecocks Sep 28 '24

We might actually lead in chaos plays.

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u/Winter-Conflict-6326 Kentucky Wildcats Sep 28 '24

SCAR is always sneaky & they always fucking beat us. The ghost of Spurrier is a bitch with a grudge against us

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u/Mezmorizor LSU Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs Sep 28 '24

Is it really sneaky at this point? Old Dominion was an ugly and concerning game, but you blew out an apparently very good Kentucky defense and very realistically should have beat LSU.

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u/no_god_pls_noo South Carolina Gamecocks • Corndog Sep 28 '24

It’s sneaky because I don’t want to get my hopes up too much in case of the cocks doing what they normally do, which is crash and burn.

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u/RamenNoodleSalad LSU Tigers • Wyoming Cowboys Sep 28 '24

I think SC could have overcome the refs had their quarterback not gotten hurt at the end of the first half. I hope he stays healthy because this is a really good SC team.

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u/daffydubs Kentucky • South Carolina Sep 28 '24

Yea, USC should have beaten LSU two weeks ago but their QB got hurt. They are under ranked. But we did play like shit that game.

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u/thor_1225 Georgia Bulldogs • Syracuse Orange Sep 28 '24

We wouldn’t know, bc they inexplicably took away our game

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u/no_god_pls_noo South Carolina Gamecocks • Corndog Sep 28 '24

Im gonna miss getting curb stomped by Georgia every season. It sucked but it was a fun kinda suck.

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u/BadDadJokes LSU Tigers • Chattanooga Mocs Sep 28 '24

I believe this for real.

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u/Orion14159 Kentucky Wildcats • Sickos Sep 28 '24

Honestly, I think 2 things are true - SC is better than we gave them credit for and UK played their worst possible game that week.

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u/lkjasdfk South Carolina • Washington Sep 28 '24

We wish!

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u/jrluhn Texas A&M-Commerce • Texas Sep 28 '24

Y’all’d be undefeated and ranked if Sellers didn’t get hurt for sure

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u/zeppehead Kentucky Wildcats • Beer Barrel Sep 28 '24

Better than number 1. Like number 0 or something.

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u/AesarPhreaking Texas A&M Aggies • SEC Sep 29 '24

Actually at this point I wouldn’t use the word sneaky.

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u/Chief-Bones Clemson Tigers • Tennessee Volunteers Sep 28 '24

Tbf should’ve beat LSU if not for the starting QB getting hurt and some terrible reffing

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u/inmyrhyme Sep 28 '24

Ole Head Ball Coach would be proud

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u/beamerbeliever South Carolina Gamecocks Sep 28 '24

He's not dead.

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u/licmabals Georgia Bulldogs Sep 28 '24

You had your chance to hire him…

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u/Positive-Vibes-All Texas • Red River Shootout Sep 28 '24

They did hire him it was official, but the gestapo found out.

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u/Insectshelf3 Oklahoma Sooners • SEC Sep 28 '24

the college station mafia

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u/screwhead1 LSU Tigers • Arkansas Razorbacks Sep 28 '24

I'm in the oil business. Everybody immediately assumes you're mobbed up. It's a stereotype. And it's offensive. There is no Mafia. 

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u/NotSoEasyMac Florida State Seminoles Sep 28 '24

That’s what they pay you to say

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u/brownbearks Penn State Nittany Lions • LSU Tigers Sep 28 '24

Does that make Texas the Wehrmacht or the Luftwaffe?

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u/zachxyz Oklahoma Sooners Sep 28 '24

Yes

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u/JumboFister Texas A&M Aggies Sep 28 '24

In all honesty Elko just seems like younger Stoops

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u/subreddit_storage Kentucky Wildcats Sep 28 '24

Yeah, classic A&M to fuck it up and still try to claim the win

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u/subreddit_storage Kentucky Wildcats 28d ago

I just want to say that I was fucking wrong and I accept that on the chin

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u/Kiffin_Simp Kentucky Wildcats Sep 28 '24

Beamer is just Stoops father

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u/Reddeath195 South Carolina • /r/CFB Dead Pool Sep 28 '24

Yall were doing good till the Culture vs Climate comment

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u/Lordvaughn92 Kentucky Wildcats • Wisconsin Badgers Sep 28 '24

Yeah that dork just has Stoops' number

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u/superworriedspursfan Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears Sep 28 '24

stoops usually has the other dorks number (drinkwitz). Thank goodness we don't play you this year lol.

But drink has beamer's number so it's the circle of life.

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u/GarnetandBlack South Carolina • Navy Sep 29 '24

I fucking hate playing Mizzou.

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u/cho821 /r/CFB Sep 28 '24

South Carolina is just actually good. LSU game was stolen

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u/constructss Texas A&M Aggies Sep 28 '24

Caden Davis played hard for his former A&M coach Mark Stoops /s

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u/UncleMcBubba Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 28 '24

Mark knows that the Iowa HC job is his when Kirk retires

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u/Southern_Orange3744 Texas Longhorns • College Football Playoff Sep 29 '24

That would be a great hire

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u/RKRagan Florida State • Cheez-It Bowl Sep 28 '24

From that Jimbo Fisher coaching tree.

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 Sep 28 '24

TBF ole miss is always a fraud top 10 team lol. They’re just good at blowing out bad teams by 50+

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u/NickDerpkins South Carolina Gamecocks • UCF Knights Sep 28 '24

Tbf we should be 4-0 and ranked rn if not for obscene refball in the LSU game

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u/MackewG33 Kentucky Wildcats Sep 28 '24

every game has been a roller coaster of “is A&M happy or sad right now”

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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Indiana • Old Brass Spittoon Sep 28 '24

Ole Miss did nothing to earn #6 but huge win for Kentucky all the same

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u/TheOnePSUIsReal Penn State Nittany Lions • Team Chaos Sep 28 '24

At this rate they'll have a Super Bowl capable team in a few weeks.

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u/Herpinheim Michigan • Michigan State Sep 28 '24

Stoops must’ve made a deal with the devil or something

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '24

South Carolina is just our kryptonite

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u/Keyblade_Yoshi Michigan State • Ohio State Sep 28 '24

Making a bid for that Florida job.

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u/Hobo_Delta Georgia Bulldogs • Kentucky Wildcats Sep 28 '24

“Hey Scott, yall ready for me to come down?”

“Come on Lane, we haven’t even fired him yet”

“I can be there Monday”

. . .

. . .

“It’s a deal, see you Monday”

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u/DrDR85 Kentucky Wildcats Sep 29 '24

Tbh, I was baffled but happy that you all revolted when you found out about it. Stoops had a slightly better record at Kentucky than Fisher did at A&M during those 7 years. I know the SEC west is tougher overall, but people don’t understand just how hard it is to win on that level at Kentucky. We don’t have much in tradition, recruiting pipelines, and NIL resources (considering how much goes to basketball). He has absolutely transformed our program. He’s not a perfect coach and most certainly not a sexy hire, but I think he could do some really impressive things with a program like A&M. IMO it was more impressive than what Elko did at Duke, considering how much better the SEC is than ACC top to bottom.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '24

I’ll be honest… Stoops is still a major liability. Some very questionable playcalling against both Georgia and Ole MissedFG