Who Are Kentucky's Top 3 SEC Football Rivals?

UF, and USC.

UT and UF obviously because of their win streaks and USC because of their weasel of a coach.

UT comes first just because of geographics.

… it has to be Tennessee. That’s the only SEC school I am aware of that UK ever had any kind of relationship with in football that could be remotely described as a “rivalry.”

Calling it a “rivalry” right now is an abuse of the term. We haven’t beaten Tennessee since the Industrial Revolution before personal computers were common.

Proximity makes them natural rivals. We’d like to think that we are rivals of UT but it doesn’t really go both ways until we can beat them. A loss to Vandy bothers me worse than any of the others.

that UT pretty much scoffs at Kentucky claiming to be a rival. They should, though, given the length of the streak.

Let me see if I can correct that.

Kentucky is not historically successful enough to really have a rival IMO. I guess if you had to pick I would go with Vandy, USC, and UT.

Mostly due to the power football schools of the SEC owning UK for so long.

Overall, Vandy because we generally compete with them for a bottom spot (changing slowly for both teams, of course). Also South Carolina because of OBC and our inability to beat him.

UK has had some really good games at Arkansas but I cannot say that one is any bigger then the other for the mere fact UK has not beaten Florida and Tennessee for so long… I would vote all!!!

Tennessee, Vandy, and LSU would be my vote. The first 2 are obvious, but I would say LSU because they are the only decent team we ever beat and we have had some pretty epic games with them. Now, whether or not they would call us a rival I don’t know. But I was there when Braxton stopped them fourth and short and there were a whole lot of teary-eyed Tiger fans leaving Commonwealth that night. But all I do know is that it feels great to beat them even if it is only once every several years.

about Georgia. I remember alot of people gearing up for that game. I think UT is the number one rivalry, but consdiering that they haven’t been able to beat them in twenty plus years that kind of takes away from it. Like UT saying that Florida is a rivalry. Not much of one. They rarely beat them.

I don’t think I’d consider Kentucky a rival because I just don’t feel the animosity for the Cats that I do for, say, UGA or Tennessee, but I always look forward to our games with you. Even though we’ve got a winning streak on you now, it’s a pretty good series and our teams usually seem evenly matched, especially now that Kentucky is putting a good team on the field.

Spoken like a true Navy guy Tru. My son feels the same :-) a true waterdog at heart.

thanks for letting me post, guys!