We stand on the precipice of another college football season, and hopes here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky are high as usual. For the last month we have asked the question on our radio show "The Sports Huddle" what this season will bring in football fortune. After all at the moment Kentucky is undefeated. Predictions have ranged from 11-1 to 6-6, with an average being around 7-5 or 8-4. Kentucky has had only three seasons in the last fifty-eight years where they have won eight times, not a lot to base these lofty predictions on.
Kentucky starts the new season with a unseasoned quarterback, holes to fill on both the defensive and offensive lines, non starters in the backfield, and receivers that have played very little. All the more reason to take a reasonable look at this years addition of Wildcats. But, then we wouldn't be fans. Fans want to see the possibility not the realism of well over a hundred years of disappointment. Don't forget we are still undefeated.
That's what is so great about a beautiful Saturday afternoon, tailgating with your friends, and bragging about what this season might bring, Football may very well be the stuff that hope is made of. The fall brings the last days of pretty weather and for a while holds back the inevitable of the approaching winter. It's still a time when you can get outside and enjoy nature and hope for a winning football team. And if the season doesn't go as well as most fans hope, well, each game brings us that much closer to basketball season. Hopes change to expectation then.
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