Kentucky

7-1

Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Kentucky, 7-1 and No. 8, plays at No. 16 Tennessee on Saturday, Nov 7.

Fan mood in the week of the Vanderbilt game: middle of the pack

Fan mood in each Kentucky game week this season

Compared with other fanbases in r/CFB game threads that week. Each row is a week, named for its game; the further right the dot, the brighter the talk.

sourerbrightervs Alabama L 17-45all inat Texas A&M W 31-21all invs South Alabama W 45-21middle of the packat South Carolina W 35-34middle of the packvs LSU W 35-34on the bright sideat Oklahoma W 21-13middle of the packvs Vanderbilt W 34-17middle of the packsourerbrighterSep 12vs AlabamaL 17-45all inSep 19at Texas A&MW 31-21all inSep 26vs South AlabamaW 45-21middle of the packOct 3at South CarolinaW 35-34middle of the packOct 10vs LSUW 35-34on the bright sideOct 17at OklahomaW 21-13middle of the packOct 24vs VanderbiltW 34-17middle of the pack
  • W 45-13 vs Youngstown State
  • L 17-45 vs Alabama
  • W 31-21 at Texas A&M
  • W 45-21 vs South Alabama
  • W 35-34 at South Carolina
  • W 35-34 vs LSU
  • W 21-13 at Oklahoma
  • W 34-17 vs Vanderbilt
  • Next: at Tennessee, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first. The loss came by 28.

Before Tennessee

Tennessee has won 10 of the last 12 meetings, including the last five; Kentucky's last win was 34-7 in 2020.

Josh Heupel is 5-0 against Kentucky as a head coach.

The playoff simulation gives Kentucky a 31% chance at Tennessee on Saturday, Nov 7.

In the playoff simulation, the Tennessee game has a playoff place on it for Kentucky.

Tennessee game on Now

What the Tennessee game is worth

The last two weeks

Kentucky won 34-17 vs Vanderbilt.

The whole Vanderbilt game

Then and now

Kentucky has won six straight, its first run that long in the regular season since 2021.

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Kentucky fans wrote in r/CFB game threads with every FBS fanbase with enough talk that week. A week runs Monday to Sunday and is named for the game in it. The read is redrawn 300 times from the same commenters, re-ranking every fanbase each time. Sour or all in means the read sat in the bottom or top fifth in at least 70 of every 100 draws; on the sour side or on the bright side, in the bottom or top two fifths in at least 80; anything less settled is middle of the pack. A bright label also needs more positive talk than negative, and a sour one the reverse. Brighter or sourer than usual compares the week with the team's own earlier weeks, after taking out how every fanbase read that week. Each dot sits at the read's rank that week. A week read before these labels keeps the word it was first given, the fifth it sat in (sour, uneasy, mixed, hopeful or all in). Season averages are the mean of a season's reads, in fifths from sour to all in, and seasons before 2026 were read from each week's wider talk, so a comparison across seasons is rough.

Fan mood, week by week

Mood over time

Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling

What the reporters say

What reporters say

57 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

Unlike that Kentucky game where every day it haunts me, you know, a decision in that, I’ve never thought twice about this decision
Kiffin · On37 days before Kentucky's 2026 game against Tennessee
Coach Bateman do a great job of just saying it’s going to be a fist fight every week
Castell · Kykernel2 days after the 21-13 game
Just like sometimes a quarterback misses a read on a mesh, a kicker unfortunately misses those, they’re big moments
Stein · Kykernelthe day before the Oklahoma game

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Fan chatter

Fan chatterThe loudest night of the season and what a usual night looks like.

Fan chatter this season

Loud

The loudest night was the 35-34 win over LSU.

FirstSecondThirdFourthKentucky fansLSU fansusual

A usual night for Kentucky fans is busy.

Arguments

The argumentThe one thing this fanbase can't agree on, with receipts.

Inside the fanbase: all 12 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
LLocked On
AA Sea Of Blue
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.23
Local
Most bought-in cohort
vs
Coldest corner+0.15
Bettors
Coolest cohort

How Kentucky fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

I don’t know, I saw a lot of positives.

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One of the crowd’s most upvoted takes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

From the team’s own coverage

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Locked On

Kentucky Has an Elite Resume. So Why Does Everyone Doubt Them?

listen ↗

All 12 corners of the fanbase

negative
0
positive
Bettors+0.15 to Local+0.23

Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
30%
recent results
20%
where the program is headed
12%
the coaching staff
8%
the rankings
7%

Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.

week 10. The sources and the divergence rank are measured. Cohort labels and sentiment are a source-weighted model estimate, never a quote attributed to a person.
ArgumentsRecurring arguments this fanbase keeps returning to.

What fans are saying

player performanceOne fan's take

One fan thinks the team failed to convert crucial touchdowns near the goal line

There was a red zone drive earlier in the game where Kentucky was about on the 5 and had an empty set and the alignment by the defense was the same.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 12, 2026 · via CFB

player performanceOne fan's take

One fan believes Sam Leavitt makes too many mistakes under pressure

LSU should win by 10-14 IMO, but Leavitt is turnover prone & Kentucky has been pretty solid in ball control through 5 games.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 9, 2026 · via Josh Pate's College Football Show

schedule expectationOne fan's take

One fan believes Kentucky is ranked too low in recent polls

Josh, please respond to this. Kentucky going in to S.Carolina ranked 24, and won.Our reward was getting kicked out of the top 25 ?

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 5, 2026 · via Josh Pate's College Football Show

Show all 4
program directionOne fan's take

One fan thinks the football team’s play style is more entertaining right now

but this football season has been infinitely more fun than anything basketball has done in over a decade and it’s not even close.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 11, 2026 · via wildcats

Rival talk

The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Kentucky fans 65% of posts bring up another team▼1pp quieter#20 of 77 saltiest · mostly about Alabama
Who Kentucky fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Alabama15%
  2. LSU11%
  3. Tennessee8%
  4. Florida7%
  5. Oklahoma5%
share of Kentucky’s football posts that mention each team
Kentucky lives rent-free in
  1. South Carolina10%
  2. Arizona9%
  3. Oklahoma6%
  4. Alabama6%
  5. Texas A&M6%
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up Kentucky

How Kentucky fans talk

Who they talk aboutThe people this fanbase names more than anyone else does.
Who they talk about Against the field · 2026 season

The names this fanbase says more than anyone else does — players, coaches, the places they keep coming back to. Not slang: these are the people carrying the conversation.

Will Stein
×92.0 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Will Stein×92.0
Kenny Minchey×88.7
Mark Stoops×38.3

““we keep stackin em” - Will “Big Sack” Stein”

reddit/CFB · fan post
Fans on Will Stein
  1. Will Stein is the best coach of all time!
  2. Stein is a lock in then, that man probably does dizzy bat races for fun because he’s unhinged,
  3. Stein doesn’t seem to have a trace of the Kentucky of old in him. Everywhere he’s been
  4. No, and frankly I trust Stein to handle Bobby. We are going to purge some demons on Saturday.
  5. No. Lose out and it was still an A+ first season for Stein. House money
  6. Stein can obviously do it and be it. Now, maybe we fizzle out the rest of this season
  7. Stein - something we had to deal with Stoops every year during his peak.
  8. Stein if he blows this he deserves to get fired
What they're calledThe slang the sport reaches for about this program more than most.
What the sport calls them 2026 season · from Words

How often college football reaches for these watchlist words about Kentucky — against the average FBS program, or against their own usual rate — said by rival fans and national media as readily as by their own people.

The whole board →
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Believers
Optimism
98th
Joy
99th
Anger
18th
Doom
5th
Sarcasm
84th
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season vocabulary

2026ranked
rankedlsutopalabamawinstein
LSU vs Kentucky is ranked on ranked 33:30
2025stoops
stoopsbuyoutwilliamsboleyspreadtrash
Please donate to my stoops buyout Gofundme
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