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2013 Kentucky Wildcats football team

2013 Kentucky Wildcats football
Kentucky Wildcats logo
Conference Southeastern Conference
Division Eastern Division
2013 record 2–10 (0–8 SEC)
Head coach Mark Stoops (1st year)
Offensive coordinator Neal Brown (1st year)
Offensive scheme Air Raid
Defensive coordinator D. J. Eliot (1st year)
Base defense 4–3
Home stadium Commonwealth Stadium
(Capacity: 67,942)
Seasons
← 2012
2014 →
2013 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Eastern Division
#5 Missouri x   7 – 1         12 – 2  
#4 South Carolina   6 – 2         11 – 2  
Georgia   5 – 3         8 – 5  
#24 Vanderbilt   4 – 4         9 – 4  
Florida   3 – 5         4 – 8  
Tennessee   2 – 6         5 – 7  
Kentucky   0 – 8         2 – 10  
Western Division
#2 Auburn xy$   7 – 1         12 – 2  
#7 Alabama x%   7 – 1         11 – 2  
#14 LSU   5 – 3         10 – 3  
#18 Texas A&M   4 – 4         9 – 4  
Mississippi State   3 – 5         7 – 6  
Ole Miss   3 – 5         8 – 5  
Arkansas   0 – 8         3 – 9  
Championship: Auburn 59, Missouri 42
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll
Kentucky vs Western Kentucky
1 2 3 4 Total
Kentucky 3 14 0 9 26
• WKU 7 14 7 7 35
  • Location: Nashville, Tennessee
  • Game start: 7:15 p.m.
  • Elapsed time: 3:33
  • Game attendance: 46,723
  • Game weather: Partly Cloudy, 89 degrees
  • Referee: Tom Ritter
  • TV announcers (ESPNews): Joe Davis (play-by-play), David Diaz-Infante (color)
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Miami (OH) vs Kentucky
1 2 3 4 Total
Miami (OH) 7 0 0 0 7
• Kentucky 24 7 0 10 41
  • Location: Lexington, Kentucky
  • Game start: 12:08 p.m.
  • Elapsed time: 3:19
  • Game attendance: 54,846
  • Game weather: Sunny, 80 degrees
  • Referee: Matt Moore
  • Television network: FSN
  • Sources:
Louisville vs Kentucky
1 2 3 4 Total
• #7 Louisville 3 7 10 7 27
Kentucky 3 0 0 10 13
  • Location: Lexington, Kentucky
  • Game start: 12:02 p.m.
  • Elapsed time: 3:10
  • Game attendance: 65,445
  • Game weather: 63 degrees, Sunny
  • Referee: Jeffrey Akers
  • TV announcers (ESPN): Beth Mowins (play-by-play), Joey Galloway (color)
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Florida vs Kentucky
1 2 3 4 Total
• #20 Florida 7 14 0 3 24
Kentucky 7 0 0 0 7
  • Location: Lexington, Kentucky
  • Game start: 7:02 p.m.
  • Elapsed time: 2:48
  • Game attendance: 65,445
  • Game weather: Partly Cloudy, 78 degrees
  • Referee: Marc Curles
  • TV announcers (ESPNU): Clay Matvick (play-by-play), Matt Stinchcomb (color)
  • Sources:

The 2013 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats competed as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) as part of its Eastern Division. The team was led by head coach Mark Stoops, in his first year and played its home games at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.

The 2013 Blue/White Spring Game at Commonwealth Stadium saw the Blue squad squeak out a one-point victory over the White team in the annual scrimmage, 24–23. The program witnessed its largest attendance for a spring game in program history with 50,831 fans.

The Kentucky faithful finally got to see a glimpse of what the new coaching staff had been working on since joining the Big Blue Nation with Stoops coming on board in late November. Stoops promised to bring a new approach to the defensive side of the ball with his offense revisiting a familiar style of play from air-raid era with an up-tempo offense. As the Wildcats put five passing touchdowns on the board, it marked the return of the old air raid sirens that once carried through the Lexington skies on game day.

With very little decided in the way of starters and roles, all five of Kentucky's quarterbacks received reps during Saturday evening's scrimmage, with the majority of the opportunities going to Maxwell Smith, Patrick Towles and Jalen Whitlow. Coach Stoops and offensive coordinator Neal Brown have yet to determine who their starting quarterback will be going into the fall, and with very little chance to see them up-close and personal, there's no hurry to name one. However, with fairly equal playing time divvied up amongst the signal callers, it was Whitlow who threw and rushed for the most yardage in Brown's new-look schemes. Whitlow did a little bit of everything in the game, displaying a strong, accurate arm, finding multiple receivers, and showing off his speed which gives him a unique, additional element to his game. He finished the night 17-of-28 with 193 yards and two touchdowns through the air, while scampering for 49 net yards on seven attempts on the ground while toggling back and forth between the Blue and White squads.


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