Florida football: 3 reason the Gators will beat Kentucky in Week 5
By Caleb Hall
3. Kentucky’s early struggles
Kentucky has started the season 4-0 and you might say starting 4-0 shows no sign of struggles. However, if you take a deeper look this team has been slightly flawed in it’s first four games.
In their first game, they defeated Ball State 44-14. However, Ball State turned it over twice in their own endzone and Kentucky was lucky to cover the spread in that game. The same goes for the Vandy game where the Wildcats had two pick-sixes. The real outlier is the Eastern Kentucky game where the Wildcats were at one point losing 10-7 with nine minutes left in the third quarter.
Kentucky went on to score three touchdowns and win 28-17 in an ugly win. Kentucky did take care of business two weeks ago against Akron but they did have another turnover problem in that game where they turned it over three times.
Kentucky hasn’t necessarily played poorly but it has not played well for a whole 60 minutes of football yet. What I’m worried about for Kentucky is the turnover problems and if Devin Leary is really as elite as he was touted as coming in. Leary has thrown for nine touchdowns, five interceptions, and has a completion rate of 59 percent for 1,060 yards.
If Kentucky wants to win against Florida he has to have more precision and not turn the ball over. The same goes for the rest of the team, if you turnover the ball three times you’re likely not going to win an SEC football game. That might work against Akron but Florida is a different story.
Leary should also look to show that he is an elite quarterback by throwing more consistently and that his troubles against these bad teams were a fluke.