KSR Today: Beat Tennessee

Good morning and good Monday, Kentucky Sports Radio readers. You know what week it is. It is Tennessee Week. The bye week is behind us. The Blue-White Game, too. Today, it’s all about getting back to work, regrouping and refocusing as Kentucky Football starts Week 9 of its college football season, needing a win to snap out of a two-game funk. The Vols come to town ranked and favored over the Wildcats before a 7 p.m. kickoff in Kroger Field. Let’s get you ready for rivalry week in Lexington.

Beat the Vols.

Monday with Mark

NOON PRESS CONFERENCE

Kentucky Football returns to its regular routine this week, beginning with Mark Stoops and the Monday afternoon press conference on campus. Stoops will take his seat behind the Kroger Field microphone at 12 o’clock to answer questions about the status of his team coming out of the bye week and the challenge ahead in hosting No. 21 Tennessee.

CALL-IN SHOW

Then, later tonight, Stoops and the Voice of the Wildcats, Tom Leach, will sit down for Stoops’ weekly call-in radio show. Stoops and Leach will be live on the UK Sports Network airwaves from 6-7 p.m. ET on WLAP 630 in Lexington or the state’s UK Sports Network affiliates.

KSR will cover both of those conversations for you, KSR readers.

New KSR Football Podcast

After we hear from Mark Stoops, the KSR Football Podcast will go live at 8 p.m. with a brand new episode. Nick Roush, Drew Franklin, Adam Luckett, and Freddie Maggard will get back into football mode with an early preview of the Tennessee game and more.

You can find the new episode on KSR’s YouTube when it goes live or consume the audio-only version of KSR’s podcasts on Apple and Spotify.

Kentucky getting 3.5 points against the Vols

Though Tennessee played well at Alabama early in last Saturday’s game, the Vols’ most recent performance in Tuscaloosa did not impact the betting line for Kentucky-Tennessee. The current point spread still matches the early spread at 3.5 points, with Tennessee the favorite.

The total on the game is 50.5.

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Kentucky-Mississippi State Game Time TBA

Around lunchtime today, the Southeastern Conference will release its kickoff and television schedule for the league’s eight Week 10 games. That’s the Saturday, November 4 slate of games when Kentucky plays at Mississippi State, so we’ll know the start time for the Cats and Dawgs in Starkville soon.

KSR will let you know.

New KY High School Rankings, Kroger Game of the Week

In high school football, a new KSR Top 25 will soon be revealed with an update to the Kentucky state high school rankings. You can read the Week 9 rankings here or a rundown of this past weekend’s games before today’s release.

KSR will also soon name the location of the Week KSR/Kroger Game of the Week.

Kentucky Basketball’s Blue-White Game Recap

Football is back in the forefront today, but Kentucky Basketball had a big Saturday over the weekend in Northern Kentucky. It was there at NKU’s Truist Arena where Kentucky played its annual Blue-White Game, the preseason intrasquad scrimmage for the fan base.

KSR was in attendance for the action and everything that came with it:

• FINAL: Blue Team takes down White Team 100-89 in Blue-White scrimmage
• KSR’s top takeaways from Kentucky’s 2023 Blue-White scrimmage
• John Calipari provides update on Kentucky’s three seven-footers
• Rob Dillingham’s post-Toronto wake-up call led to 40-point outing at Blue-White Game
• Rob Dillingham, Adou Thiero 2023 Blue-White Game press conference
• KSR’s Rapid Reaction: Blue-White Game

Hear from John Calipari after the Blue-White Game:

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UK Athletics Recap

VOLLEYBALL CLIMBING THE SEC STANDINGS

On Sunday, No. 20 Kentucky Volleyball beat No. 10 Arkansas in five sets (16-25, 25-16, 25-22, 19-25, 15-10) in Rupp Arena.

Hunter Mitchell has more about the win and its implications in the SEC standings.

UK WOMEN’S SOCCER‘S SHUTOUT

Across town, No. 23 Kentucky Women’s Soccer beat Missouri, 1-0, at The Bell on UK’s campus. Kentucky’s Úlfa Úlfarsdóttir scored the game’s decisive and only goal in the sixth minute, while the Wildcats recorded an eighth shutout as a team this season.

UK MEN’S SOCCER UPSET NO. 1 MARSHALL

And in the biggest news from Sunday’s events, Kentucky Men’s Soccer beat No. 1 Marshall at Marshall to snap a four-game losing streak. The Thundering Herd (12-2) had lost only one match all year before the Wildcats (4-6-4) showed up and stole a 2-0 win.

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