How soon

[kyjohn]

Will we see UK in a BCS Bowl ? They came close this year,and surely if Kansas can do it,UK can.
Go Cats !

[Matt Dillon]

It's hard to say. We're in unfamiliar territory. Perhaps as soon as next season, perhaps longer, maybe never.

[Brian McCat]

It's hard to say. We're in unfamiliar territory. Perhaps as soon as next season, perhaps longer, maybe never.

Never say never.

Few people could see us winning 16 games - 2 of them bowl wins- in consecutive seasons back in 2004.

[MercerTitans]

Will we see UK in a BCS Bowl ? They came close this year,and surely if Kansas can do it,UK can.
Go Cats !

Kansas gets the luxury of playing in the Big 12 North. While I think that it is possible for UK to one day play in a BCS bowl, there's no denying that for the time being it's a tougher road than what Kansas had. And I don't mean that as a knock on Kansas - they had a helluva season - but it is what it is.

[Matt Dillon]

Kansas gets the luxury of playing in the Big 12 North. While I think that it is possible for UK to one day play in a BCS bowl, there's no denying that for the time being it's a tougher road than what Kansas had. And I don't mean that as a knock on Kansas - they had a helluva season - but it is what it is.

My point exactly. We are in the toughest div. of the toughest conf. in American, trying to get established in the world of big time college fb.

[RV]

We need to begin making a run at first or second in our division. With that BCS invites and high national rankings will follow.

Coach Brooks thought that we would do just that this past season and had we had a little better luck in scheduling we may just have done it.

Next year's schedule:
Sat., Aug. 30 Louisville Louisville, Ky.
Sat., Sept. 6 NORFOLK STATE COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Sept. 13 AKRON COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Sept. 20 Open
Sat., Sept. 27 TEMPLE COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Oct. 4 Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Sat., Oct. 11 SOUTH CAROLINA COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Oct. 18 ARKANSAS COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Oct. 25 Florida Gainesville, Fla.
Sat., Nov. 1 Mississippi State Starkville, Miss.
Sat., Nov. 8 GEORGIA COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Nov. 15 VANDERBILT COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Nov. 22 Open
Sat., Nov. 29 Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn.

The games that will be the most difficult to win will be away games at Florida, Alabama and Tennessee and the home game with Georgia. Imagine that - three of the four are SEC East opponents. We won't sniff the BCS until we can beat most of those teams. We are getting closer however IMHO. The key is getting our D into the top half of the SEC. We have the opportunity to do that in 2008.

[colonelcatfan]

one more year to build.....2009

[dougwhit]

2 maybe 3 years

[bluescat]

If you listen very closely you can faintly hear the sound of an enormous Wildcat emerging and overwhelming everything in its path.
It will start next season with our defense.

[catlovercardhater]

I think Locke will literally carry this program to a BCS game in his junior or senior years I feel.

[Brian McCat]

I think Locke will literally carry this program to a BCS game in his junior or senior years I feel.

Maybe. Since he´s a track guy, I don´t know if he´ll ever put on the weight that will take that type of brutal SEC punishment.

That said, I can´t wait to see 28, 29, and 41 in the backfield next fall! Add Pulley to the mix with an improved OL, and you have a ground-pounding SEC smashmouth run game that eats clock and moves the chains.

[poodoo]

That said, I can´t wait to see 28, 29, and 41 in the backfield next fall! Add Pulley to the mix with an improved OL, and you have a ground-pounding SEC smashmouth run game that eats clock and moves the chains.

I hear you, Brian. While some fans may not like what you just wrote, all I want is to WIN. Our offense can still be quite exciting, but in a different way.

Too, in regard to the BCS bowl, oh, we actually came SO CLOSE this season. That it could have happened with only a few plays' having gone differently is certainly progress for UK football.

Yes, though, our competing in the SEC East makes it really difficult to accomplish. Having said that, I can hardly wait for the Cats to try in 2008! :)

[billoliver40]

The BCS system is a sore spot for most fans....at least the fans of the teams not picked in the championship game. All the supporters are pounding their chests this year and saying "well, look...LSU and Ohio State...what could be better?"

Guys, no harm meant, but Georgia should've been in a huge game. Missouri got hosed. Kansas loses one game late in the season, West Virginia loses late in the season, and all of a sudden, somebody with the same or worse record slides in.

Need to redo the system again.

Gonna be hard, hard, hard for UK to go to the BCS given the strength of the SEC and the current rule of no more than 2 teams from the same conference going to the BCS.

If Kentucky was in the Big East or the ACC, we could very well have been
looking at the BCS this last year.

[gerntz]

RV, why do you see the AL game so tough since it's against a team lucky to be 500 this season? At this point, I don't see it up there with the others. Thanks.

[UedK]

We need to begin making a run at first or second in our division. With that BCS invites and high national rankings will follow.

Coach Brooks thought that we would do just that this past season and had we had a little better luck in scheduling we may just have done it.

Next year's schedule:
Sat., Aug. 30 Louisville Louisville, Ky.
Sat., Sept. 6 NORFOLK STATE COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Sept. 13 AKRON COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Sept. 20 Open
Sat., Sept. 27 TEMPLE COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Oct. 4 Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Sat., Oct. 11 SOUTH CAROLINA COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Oct. 18 ARKANSAS COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Oct. 25 Florida Gainesville, Fla.
Sat., Nov. 1 Mississippi State Starkville, Miss.
Sat., Nov. 8 GEORGIA COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Nov. 15 VANDERBILT COMMONWEALTH STADIUM
Sat., Nov. 22 Open
Sat., Nov. 29 Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn.

The games that will be the most difficult to win will be away games at Florida, Alabama and Tennessee and the home game with Georgia. Imagine that - three of the four are SEC East opponents. We won't sniff the BCS until we can beat most of those teams. We are getting closer however IMHO. The key is getting our D into the top half of the SEC. We have the opportunity to do that in 2008.

I sure wish we could stick that open date between either USCjr/Arky or between Arky/gators.

RE: BAMA; I talked to a very knowledgeable Bama fan at the MCB:

He was very high on our Cats and was not at all looking forward to playing us next season. He had studied some of the same things we all know; ie: our defense will get better and better, Pulley may be one heck of a dual threat QB, our running backs will not miss a step compared to this year and our O-line is now SEC caliber with depth.

He said that next year Saben will improve Bama greatly and they are having a heck of a recruiting year, but he thought it will be a couple of seasons before Bama gets back near the top of the SEC west. He thought that just like UK the past couple of years their real talent will be young and inexperienced and it would be asking a lot for them to make a huge jump in 2008. He had a great outlook in terms of understanding the big picture.

Next seasons battle with Bama will be a real war but I could see us as the favorite coming into that game.

I believe Bama will be one of four SEC games that could go either way and could serve to make for a very good verses just a good season. I look at Bama (away), USCjr (home), Arky (home) and MissSt (away) as being those games. Win 3/4 of these and we may be looking at a 8/9 win regular season and if we knock off one of the SEC east powers we go from very good to unbelievable.

[RV]

RV, why do you see the AL game so tough since it's against a team lucky to be 500 this season? At this point, I don't see it up there with the others. Thanks.

Some would say we were lucky to surpass 500 as well.

I think it goes without saying that any SEC game on the road will be tough. Add to the fact that we have not faired very well against 'bama in the past along with our continued struggle to be competitive in the trenches and you should come to a reasonable conclusion that this will be a tough game for us to win.

Understand that I didn't say any of these games are unwinnable - just tough to win. I believe we have reached the point where we will be competitive against most any team.

[Hanover Cat]

I know that UK will not look at one opponent as a benchmark, but it's hard not to. For me, UK's next measuring stick on the way to the making the BCS is beating Tennessee, and beating them on a regular basis. There will always be at least three tough SEC East opponents every year and at least one from the West.

UT is one of those tough teams we always have on our schedule. But they are also a border rival and victory with them has been within our grasp so many times. To begin beating them has to be the next step. And despite what our past has taught us, I believe that day is coming soon.

When we start beating them, the dam holding us back will break.

[tedukcat]

I know that UK will not look at one opponent as a benchmark, but it's hard not to. For me, UK's next measuring stick on the way to the making the BCS is beating Tennessee, and beating them on a regular basis. There will always be at least three tough SEC East opponents every year and at least one from the West.

UT is one of those tough teams we always have on our schedule. But they are also a border rival and victory with them has been within our grasp so many times. To begin beating them has to be the next step. And despite what our past has taught us, I believe that day is coming soon.

When we start beating them, the dam holding us back will break.

I agree 100%,, we have to start expecting to beat teams like PHEW T, Ark,and even Florida, then games like SC,ALA, and UGA, will become easier and easier!

[johnkyblue]

We will be competitive against EVERY college football team.

[BowlingGreenUKGrad]

To get in a BCS game, we'll have to either A) win the SEC Championship game or B) be the best team in the league, excluding the Championship game winner. That's a pretty tall order. It could happen, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

[Diz]

The big wins this year put us in the top 10 (5-1) battling Florida down to the final few minutes. We had no 49-0 losses.
Even our wins against Florida Atlantic, Central Michigan (06) and Kent turned out to be quality wins. There have been no Ohio U slip-ups for two seasons. Spurrier, Fulmer and Myer rolled out their best game plans for Kentucky in 2007, where they mailed it in 3 or 4 years ago.

Kentucky has turned the corner and was missing only depth in 2007. That won't be a problem in 2008. Football in the SEC is a war of attrition and stamina. The Kentucky coaching staff appears to be hanging together for some reason. I like to think they know what is coming. I see Corso and the ESPN elite bent over a barrel next year in Commonwealth stadium. No more will they be able to say, "Look who beat LSU! How can anyone pick LSU after they lose to Kentucky and Arkansas?"

Hell no I won't forget. I'm saving vacation days for January 2009.