Here are some numbers from Saturday night’s win over the Redhawks
Kentucky 37, Miami, OH 13
This was the season opener for both teams, as Kentucky football began its 132nd season.
UK is now 90-37-5 in all-time season openers, including 7-3 under Mark Stoops.
The Wildcats have won 12 of their past 16 season openers, including five of the last six.
The Wildcats have won the last four times they opened the season at home (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) most since the Wildcats opened at home and won them all from 1987-1994.
UK has scored 35 points in the last eight seasons in which they opened the season at home (2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022), a school record.
Kentucky leads the all-time series with Miami (Ohio) 9-4-1 and has won four in a row.
Stoops is 2-0 against Miami (Ohio) at Kentucky.
Saturday’s attendance of 61,139 is the most for a season opener since the 2015 opening of the renovated stadium.
Next up, the Wildcats will have their Southeastern Conference opener Saturday, Sept. 10, as Kentucky travels to Gainesville, Florida, to sqaure off with Florida at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The game time is set for 7 p.m. Pregame on WDHR 93.1 FM begins at 5 pm.
Coach Mark Stoops
In 2022, Mark Stoops began his 10th season as Kentucky’s head coach, surpassing Fran Curci (nine seasons from 1973-81) for the most seasons as the UK head coach.
In tonight’s win against Miami (Ohio), Stoops recorded his 60th triumph at the helm of the program.
He is tied with former head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant as the all-time winningest head coach at Kentucky. Bryant went 60-23-5 from 1946-53.
Stoops’ added to his school-record total for home victories, now has 42.
Virginia Tech transfer shines
Senior wide receiver Tayvion Robinson caught a career-high-tying six passes for a career-high 136 yards.
It is the most receiving yards for any Wildcat in his first game at UK. The previous record was Wan’Dale Robinson’s 125 yards in the 2021 season opener.
It is tied for the third-most in a season opener by a Wildcat.
He eclipsed 100 receiving yards in the first half of his Kentucky debut (five catches for 123).
It marked his first 100-yard game in his college career. Playing the previous three seasons at Virginia Tech, his previous career bests were six catches for 98 yards.