win here at Kroger field last week against Southern misss you're watching the SEC on ABC presented by Burger King and history will be made today here in Lexington as this is the first conference game in the new 16 team Southeastern Conference as South Carolina and Kentucky go head to-head for the 37th time great blue sky overhead it feels like fall the temperature right around 70° South Carolina won the toss and deferred Kentucky elected to take the opening kickoff and bar on Brown brought it back [Applause] to on the handoff Sumo car Bay again and he's out to the 31 with an 11 yd gain and a first down that's the biggest question Vander Griff in trouble and forced to throw it away he was pressured by takka Hemingway it's third down and 18 out of the gun sellers high pass and a good catch by the Crosser Jared Brown and he scampers out of bounds he's a sophomore from Eon Georgia was a freshman all American last year on third down and eight Brock Vander Griff High throw a good catch but a very short game to jamori mckin every year since 1992 when South Carolina joined the conference first and 10 for the Gamecock and a beautiful throw through a lot of traffic sellers on target to Jared Brown who fought hard to get to the 40 Shaw carried 22 times against Clemson they get to the line quickly Jared Brown again a lot of running room as he turned the corner but he gets yanked down inside the 25 yd line that's 12 sers rolls to his left as a wide open receiver and a touchdown Mao Bennett Jr a 24 yd score the true freshman with just his third career catch he had two last week against ODU and now he has his first career touchdown and just a miscommunication in the back end of Kentucky the outside corner number six JQ Hardaway stayed on the post to the inside which allowed the wide receiver from the slot Bennett Cox and the extra point Up and Good by the new place kicker Al Herrera new to the and the Griff one for two passing throws a deep ball and single coverage and it is caught the officials conferring as it inbounds it is at the 39 yd line Dy wins Brock Vandergriff and Kentucky heading into the breeze here in the first quarter he's surrounded lost the football and Caroline appears to have it Kyle Canard knocked the ball out by and it was recovered by Kentucky by Brock vaner Griff the road against a team that has some power and speed up front short set quick throw caught naio Bennett ran into a pile at the 12 yd line Zion childr leading the way for the Kentucky defense [Applause] and to Griff stumbles as he tries to get away and they had him around the legs as he threw it again Dylan Stewart the true freshman out at least for a few more [Applause] weeks Sumo caring Bay has the first down with a four- yd gain but Cari Swain made the tackle it's really kind of been Josh ctis the tight end the motion man and Sumo K Bay stacked up on third down and two he got one call and they do snap it Vander Griff's in trouble he is trying to push his way to the line it didn't look like he got there he's a big strong guy at 63 217 the Gamecocks convinced they stopped him and it certainly looks back on Downs two defensive tackles number 91 Hemingway and 95 Huntley they just get underneath the lower guys along the interior the offensive line and and I understand being aggressive in plus territory but this to me makes very little sense defense has played pretty well Beamer Ashford on a quarterback delay looked like a designed run for him and it's effective he's inside the negative yardage make it very difficult going into the wind for your field goal kicker another design run for Ashford trying to get outside he's tackled from behind well short of the first down Tyrese Feb 3% best in the SEC in that span K Kroger is the holder and Herrera picks up where it's Jer left off injury he squats 590 [Applause] lb Sumo Carn Bay breaking tackles he's had some good runs not going to be [Applause] an big shoes to fill they've had a lot of terrific running backs here under Mark stops including Ray Davis last year quick hitter Demi Sumo car Bay ran into time in both Vanderbilt and Kentucky but he's very capable between the tackles they're ow for five on third down this is third in less than a yard Sumo K swung down but he has the first down Jud J CX 11th play of the drive the first T of all been runs and play 11 is as well Sumo Caray stacked up well they went for a rer made his only field goal in the opener against Southern Miss from 41 yards he's 11 out of 12 is the Kentucky kicker and that one's good so the Caps are on the score an American is in the women's final as we speak after the Kentucky timeout Mark stops wants the ball back Lenoris sellers High throw intercepted Ty Bryant brings it back inside the 30 his first career interception for the sophomore from right down the road here in Lexington Frederick Douglas High School and a lot of zone defense from Kentucky you see all the Defenders with eyes in the back field just reading where Lenor sers is looking and he makes a big mistake really really bad throw bad decision in this situation end of half situation under two minutes trying to force it misses particularly Canard and Stewart short set and an offt Target throw Dan key lunged for it couldn't R TRV it with judge Coler in coverage and the second among all active players he's in his second year Kentucky spent three years at Georgia Southern prior to that outstanding in both places that's a 39 yd field goal he's now made 50 3 second half to avoid those massive negative plays that give the momentum to the defense and basically force you to punt the ball Len nor sers took a knee I mean South Carolina ends that with just 101 yds rushing after a mere 28 for Kentucky really had a lot of Rhythm running the football between the tackles a l r Ro kicks off it'll be the Touchback sh sellers left the game at 317 of the first quarter returned with under two minutes to go in the second quarter Raheem Sanders carries out to the 41 he had five carries in the first half for no yards gain and eight yards right there and so he doesn't need to do that whatever that was about it's running now Sanders the running back under duress sers got it off it's incomplete 10ed for Jared Brown one pass they one for eight on third down here comes the pressure and Vander Griff goes down he might be starting to think you know what it wasn't so bad standing on the sideline watching ston Bennett and Carson Beck play 37 yards lost by Kentucky on the sacks Wilson Barry punts and a good one Juju [Music] McDow taken down at the 42 49 yd punt two y return Maxwell harston the tackle on special teams for the wild cats 20 lb uh 6 7% body fat he says he's in the best shape of his life go out of five on third down and they're now 0 for six as lenar sers got collared a yard interesting decision if they do in this defensive struggle they run Brady hunt a tight end trying to get movement and there is a flag off side on the defense number eight fivey penalty results in a first down Octavius oxen dying they for six on third down kuy's one out of Nine sers dodg the rush and found a wide openen receiver Mao Bennett who has the only touchdown in this game with a Sanders is the running back they fake a pitch to him another open receiver and a touchdown Joshua Simon the tight end 16 [Applause] [Applause] yds oh said for a while that these guys are starting to fly downhill they don't fly downhill but look at Sellers fake the pitch to Rocket Sanders gets the Defenders to bite just ever so slightly and floats it right up and over the top of the zone Great call by D login the extra point good by Alex Herrera on third down it's third down and 20 three man rush and a high throw over the receiver's head that was almost intercepted by a diving Vari swing and now they're not boing the officials they're boing this Kentucky off defense for the sixth time Juju mcdal caught it on the Run made the first man miss but not the second and he's down at the 47 yd line tackled by Maxwell heirston 48 yd punt Bennett went in motion and came back sellers a clean pocket pulled it down and then completes one for a first down out bound at the 31 yd line Jared Brown with DJ Waller Jr making the tackle a gain of 13 play clock at five Sanders bounces outside and has room inside the five lunging for the pylon touchdown more than the 101 they had the entire first half sellers trying to follow a lead blocker he got driven back I'd think they'd have him push it into the end zone a lot around the goal line as Brad white said sellers reminds him of Anthony Richardson which is a big compliment flag thrown Raheem Sanders clearly got into the end zone that time there's a flag [Music] [Applause] thrown and this replay review could turn out to be big if South Carolina winds up not scoring a touchdown number 87 spot replay second down penalized five times feels like there have been more than that because many of them have been quite costly the fake to Sanders sers fires there's another flag down the pass is incomplete In The End Zone he's trying to jam it into Joshua Simon the tight end receiving touchdown of his career on the defense number 10 penalty is half the distance to the goal results in automatic first down J first and goal if South Carolina scores a touchdown now this whole sequence works out better for them because going to take more time off the clock and it's Sanders not to be denied Joshua Simon leading the way a 6yd touchdown run with 28 seconds to go in the third quarter and a play they had some success with earlier just guard tight end C counter and they block it up perfectly this time number 87 Brady hunt does keep his hands inside Sanders hits it at an angle and is too difficult too strong to bring down before he finds Alex Herrera for the extra point as we head to the fourth quarter a lot of the folks have left Kroger field Brock Ander Griff terrible pass in the coverage Nick Ean warry bringing it back Nick Ean warry scores a touchdown [Applause] right on Q self-inflicted wounds that was a terrible decision by Vandergriff but in a moment they will be and he's watching the whole way and he just watched Vandergriff as he drifts back he drifts right underneath the intended receiver makes the interception Vander Griff trying to get something going doesn't see the underneath coverage throws it right to Eman warry who takes it to the house for the pick six just a tremendous second half performance from this South Carolina defense both up front what do you think Mark st's blood pressure is right about now Herer adds the extra point how high is to the point where you need to be thinking about getting medical attention cuz he's those are the things that just drive coaches insane and my goodness how many have Kentucky had today whimet firste transfer he can do this Runs Out of Bounds across Midfield he was the starter for all 13 games at ruter last year he rushed for 497 yds 63 he chose Ruckers but he had a connection with the then coordinator Sean gleon apparently jamori Macklin scampers out of bounds with another first down he's the cousin of Jeremy mcklin was a great and Vander graph wishing that some of the starters weren't on the field when he was in there whims taken down from behind by Debo Williams [Applause] limat intercepted picked off by Jaylen [Applause] Kilgore and again talking about the Kentucky struggle terrific at every level plenty of talent more depth than they've had in the past second interception of this season for Kilgore he brought it back 14 yds sers the quarterback throwing for single coverage trying to get it to Nick Harbor there is a flag down Maxwell harston had the coverage he left for a while and has returned all americ he's run a 10.11 in the 100 meters Michael Smith down the sideline they're well into Kentucky territory all the way down to the 250 9 two TDS and one interception and he's taken down for a loss back at the 35 yd line by Steven Souls a true freshman and last year they couldn't really run block at all and they didn't have the running back you could tie the game plan too now they do in Sanders they have that and then is there somebody in the white who was in pursuit of whim satat forced him to throw it here's a transfer from Alabama whim stayed on his feet got very close to the first down marker 48 yds Sumo car has 70 yards he actually has minus three rushing in the second half had several gainers taken away by penalties here in the second half Fred fer the second on the catch three years at 25o margin right now it'll be their third SEC Road Win Four Seasons under Beamer here's another flag and whimet is taken down another sack against Josh hypo on the offens side just going to be an amazing cat and mouse game can you pronounce Nico's name for me again Nico IAM malava malava is that for you Willie Rodriguez could not make the catch one minute to go Missouri up knowing that you got to travel up there as well later in the year feels like an important year for Shane Beamer the first two were terrific seven and six and then an 8 and five last year a step back to five- seven but year four off to an excellent start as they go to 2 and0 1 and0 in the conference and they make history they are the first team to be in first place in the 16 team