#Rich Scangarello

After weeks of more or less meaningless bowl games, we finally get to the part of the postseason schedule when things really matter: Saturday's College Football Playoff semifinals. That, along with two other bowl games on New Year's Eve, makes for a fun day of college football. Here's a look at Saturday's matchups, including any players and coaches…

And just like that, the Iowa football season is coming to a close. In typical Hawkeye fashion, Iowa gave fans a reason for optimism. Heading into a Black Friday showdown with a reeling Nebraska team, the Hawkeyes needed to just not completely trip all over themselves to return to Indianapolis as Big Ten West Champions for the second straight…

For the second year in a row, the Iowa Hawkeyes and Kentucky Wildcats will be hooking up in the postseason after they met last January in the VRBO Citrus Bowl, seeing the Big Blue come out with a 20-17 win. Fast-forward 364 days and these two will be back at each other again in Nashville in the Music City Bowl. Want more irony? Last year was just…

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa and Kentucky are running it back in the New Year's Eve Music City Bowl in Nashville. It's a rematch of last year's Citrus Bowl in Orlando. It's not often we see Power 5 schools meeting up in back-to-back bowl games. And this one is being frowned upon by college football fans outside of the fan bases, especially by the folks…

There have been 11 head-coaching hires since our last column. (Hey, someone has to keep track.) Let's dig in! From an uneven football season to a historically bad start in men's basketball, from the athletic department tumult of the past decade to everything in between, Louisville had been put through the wringer the past five years. The FBI and…

Now Bowl eligible for the seventh time under coach Mark Stoops, the Kentucky Wildcats will look to expand its win total this week against Vanderbilt on Saturday at Kroger Field. The Wildcats barely escaped with a win last week against Missouri, thanks to the heads-up play of Colin Goodfellow, who turned a bad snap into a game-winning play that…

It will be an early wake-up call for Coach Mark Stoops and the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday with an 11:00 am CT kickoff against Ole Miss as a pair of ranked, undefeated teams, will collide in Oxford. In addition to the early start time, the Wildcats will be in unfamiliar territory, staying an hour away from Vaught-Hemingway Stadium at a Tupelo…

Kentucky head football coach Mark Stoops was at a loss for words after the Wildcats' loss at Mississippi State last fall. "Pretty difficult to have an opening statement because it's been awhile since we played a game like that," Stoops said after the 31-17 beatdown on Oct. 30, 2021. "Not a very good feeling." Nearly a year later, that feeling…

LEXINGTON - The Kentucky football team in 2021 did a lot of things right. But it didn't respond so well the first time things went wrong. This version of the Wildcats will look to better navigate those circumstances Saturday, when No. 13 UK (4-1, 1-1 SEC) hosts South Carolina (3-2, 0-2) at Kroger Field. Kentucky is coming off its first loss of the…

LEXINGTON - Rich Scangarello knows a thing or two about NFL offenses. The Kentucky football offensive coordinator has worked on staffs with five different NFL teams. He's been the San Francisco 49ers' quarterbacks coach twice. He knows pro talent when he sees it. This week, he's set to add some. When No. 7 UK takes on No. 14 Ole Miss on Saturday in…

LEXINGTON - Some folks call them guarantee games. But they're not necessarily guaranteed wins. When the Kentucky football team hosts Youngstown State on Saturday, the guarantee is UK's opponent will get a nice payday for its time - $550000, to be precise. And the all-but-assured outcome is a Wildcat win - likely of the blowout variety - over an FCS…

The Sea of Blue group chat is blowing up this week as excitement builds for the first week of the college football season as all 14 SEC teams will be in action this week. That means "talking season" is officially over as the SEC rolls into Week 1 with six teams ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll in Alabama (1), Georgia (3), Texas A&M (6), Arkansas (19),…