Stanford Steve and the Bear can't kill my Kentucky Football buzz

Stanford Steve and the Bear threw some cold water on Big Blue Nation’s summertime excitement for Kentucky Football. On the new episode of their aptly-named podcast, Stanford Steve & The Bear, the popular sports gambling analysts shared their unfavorable opinions of the betting line on Kentucky’s season win total in 2022: over/under 7.5 wins at -190 odds, per their bookie.

Steve was the first to mention Kentucky with his disappointing support of the under, a sad break from the podcast’s pro-Kentucky tradition.

“The one team that you and I have been really, really high on every year; I want to say their overs have come in the last four years; and this one I think I might be leaning to the under this year, is Kentucky,” Steve said of the Cats.

“I get (Will) Levis is another guy that’s getting a lot of hype. I just look at what they lost as far as personnel-wise. There’s no way I would touch over 7.5 at -190 with them. I love what Stoops has done; how can’t you? Possibly the best coaching job year in year out over the last decade in that conference, seeing what they have to work with. But the Levis thing. Wan’Dale (Robinson), gone. I don’t think people give that kid enough credit for what he did for Kentucky last year. I mean, you talk about an absolute gamebreaker; where are they getting those big splash plays? And Levis, unless he’s gonna be vastly improved accuracy-wise, they have to be a lot more detailed with their pass game and I just wonder about what they could do personnel-wise when you stack them up against the other teams in their conference.”

The Bear then went through the game-by-game schedule aloud with concerns about the backend of the season when Kentucky travels to Tennessee and Missouri, and hosts Georgia and Louisville to end the year.

“I wouldn’t be hopping on laying big juice at over 7.5,” he added.

Meanwhile, here at Kentucky Sports Radio, we encourage the opposite. Hammer that over* if you can still get it at 7.5 wins because it’s already up to 8.5 in some books.

For more from Stanford Steve and the Bear, who do good work when they’re on the right side of Kentucky Football history, you can listen to the new episode of their podcast and all of its lies about Kentucky here.

(*Not financial advice but Go Cats.)