Gameday News and Notes

First of all, Happy Halloween, and wear your black tonight at Commonwealth! The official black-out t-shirts can be found all around town. Wish I had a picture of them but they're nice.

Before we get into football, I just want to share with everyone that I seriously think I have more journalism skills in my left pinky finger than Pat Forde has in his entire body. Once again, Forde tried to make something out of nothing out of the John Wall situation. He will miss one exhibition game (against Campbellsville) and one regular season game (against Morehead) and will pay back the money that his AAU coach gave him (while he had no money and his mother was sick).

It was never a big story but Forde tried to make it one. Like Cal said...about 20 players are going through the same thing right now, including a Duke recruit. The funniest part of the whole story was how he tried to blame it on Calipari when the supposed recruiting visits to UK occured in 2007. Ofcourse, Calipari must have known he was going to be UK's coach in a few years. He must have set this all up while he was at Memphis, right? Too bad I'm not best friends with Rick Pitino so he could get me a job at ESPN. Seriously, how do they continue to let someone so biased with an obvious agenda work at a place like ESPN?

Anyway, I wish I could write more about the football game tonight, but it's about time for me to get ready and head out there. I promise I will give a good game recap and summary on Sunday. But for now, here are a few game notes:

• LB Micah Johnson is probable and CB Trevard Lindlay is doubtful. We need the All-Americans 100% healthy by the time we wrap up the season with Georgia and Tennessee. But I have a feeling we are going to need Micah's efforts tonight and will be out there. He may not start though.

• We also need either Fidler or Newton to step up and be the primary Quarterback along with Randall Cobb in the wildcat. Three QB's is just too many and the offense seemed to be a little bit disoriented in the Louisiana-Monroe game with so many changes. I hope Newton steps up, because he is the future, but either one of them needs to step up and if neither does, Cobb may play more often at Quarterback.

• Cobb enters tonight's game with 2 passing touchdowns, 11 rushing touchdowns, 6 receiving touchdowns, and 1 kickoff return touchdown. He is the most versatile player in the nation, and only a sophomore! The next few years are going to be fun, and if Kentucky utilizes him more often in the wildcat, he could get some serious Heisman consideration as a Senior.

• This might be the biggest game of the year tonight. The UK/Miss State game has developed into a game where both teams NEED to beat each other each year to position themselves for bowl season and usually the game is very close, but the Cats seem to find ways to win in this series. Expect it to come down to the wire. Last season, the Cats won off of a missed extra point. I think it will be something similar this year with the Cats winning by less than 7 off of an MSU miscue and Randall Cobb will make some big plays as well to give the Cats a nailbitter victory. Commonwealth will be rockin tonight.

• Will I be able to tick-or-treat in the parking lot? Anyone bringing candy? I've got to go.