Early season issues will revolve around the fact that Auburn had zero spring practices compared to Kentucky’s 5. What hurts the Auburn team the most is they lose almost EVERYONE from the O-Line and defensive backfield. The Wildcats with a strong OL gives them a major edge here.
The Wildcats enter, for 8th year HC Stoops, on an 18-8 SU run. They closed the season with 4 consecutive victories plus a bowl win.

This one is going to be tough to figure out as Auburn is missing a lot of key contributors from a season ago. With the way things have been with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tigers haven’t had a lot of opportunities to really jell together and figure out how things will work going forward. Kentucky is very good and has a lot of returning firepower from last season’s team and Wilson, if he can stay healthy, gives the Wildcats a capable quarterback that can help take pressure off the run game. The defense will continue to improve (allowed an average of only 18 PPG L2Y) as their confidence level grows.

Kentucky’s returning starters help them to keep this game close throughout. Take the points with the Kentucky Wildcats.