Darian Kinnard and his UK teammates are still waiting to find out what bowl game they will be in this year.
What bowl will Kentucky be playing in this year? Normally just a few days before the end of the season we would know — or at least have an educated guess. This year, it’s not that way.
I have friends on three bowl committees who usually can help me get a great feel for where Kentucky will be playing. But not this year.
“I wish I knew,” one bowl rep told me this week. “Like everything else this year it has been really hard to predict.”
Why?
“The hard part is identifying teams who want to play in games outside the top bowls,” she said.
Another bowl rep basically told me the same thing about just not knowing where Kentucky might land.
“Normally we would have a good feel for it but with all the other games being played on Saturday it creates a lot of uncertainty,” he said.
Another bowl rep told me he felt there was a “good chance” Kentucky could land in the Music City Bowl in Nashville but there were still a lot of variables that could make that change.
“What if LS beats Ole Miss? What if Tennessee beats Texas A&M? What if Mississippi State beats Missouri?” the bowl member said. “Some of these are likely not to happen but if they do it muddies the water.”
The first bowl rep I mentioned said things just will not fall in place — partially due to TV and conferences having a larger say this year — until after Saturday’s games.
“Some teams want to come to our bowl and some would prefer to play elsewhere. That also is a factor,” she said. “That is why no one really has great intell on what might happen with the bowl pairings just yet.”
