I'm sorry I haven't been on here in a while.

Like I said before don't give up on the Football 'Cats just yet my fellow 'Cat fans.

Really Tim Tebow was a one-man offensive show in last week's game.  I even joked for a while that he automatically got my Heisman vote because of his terrific performance.  Sadly he out-played Andre Woodson that game, and thus the reason Florida beat us.

But I still loved our effort and I am still very proud of this team.  As always we never gave up and fought until the very end.  We even scored a touchdown with no time remaining on the clock.  This 2007 team has far more pride in themselves than any other season since 1977 when I was just 7 years old.

Our offensive line struggled the worst it has all year IMHO.  The Gators sacked him 6 times.  But when he had time he was still deadly for the most part.

While we were able on occasion to run the football effectively this was also the worst game we had all year running the football.  Still Dixon and especially Locke were able to do moderately well.

Again we struggled big time in the red zone especially in the 1st half.  If we had done better as far as the red zone was concerned I think we actually could have pulled it out.

Seiber and esp. Masthay struggled too, Masthay having by far the worst game of the year.  As far as kickoffs are concerned it's either a touchback or the ball at least on the oppositions 40 yard line.  Our punt and kickoff coverage esp. kickoffs has been less than stellar this year.

We still just cannot break a long kickoff or punt
return this year to save our lives.  The opposition has apparently found a weakness in it and still after 8 games we have yet to figure out what we're doing wrong.  We've been close several times but not nearly close enough.

Our defense had its worst game of the year as well.  We just had no answer at all for Tim Tebow and his passing attack.  I think we done a darn good job of stopping UF's running attack even Tebow himself but we vary rarely got in Tebow's face and boy did he make us pay.  Our secondary had by far it's worst game of the year as well.

And Florida didn't turn the ball over even once and didn't even fumble it one time.  Our defense tried stripping Florida's RB's and Tebow of the ball countless times but credit the Gators as they just refused to do so.

Even though we played our 2nd poorest game of the year, South Carolina was our worst, we still lost to the defending national champions by just 8 points with the schedule, Florida's struggles, and everything else going against us.

I know it was going to be very tough for us to beat Florida after the Gators had a week off to prepare for us and after we had that 3OT victory over LSU.

Still I'm very proud of this team.  If the Gators had played the week before like we did who knows the outcome might have been much different.

Now comes the game I've always felt was the game of the year for us, Mississippi State.  It's one of those rare SEC games where we are heavily favored to win.

Sure Miss. St. beat Auburn at Auburn but have struggled somewhat since that win.  Miss. St. didn't look good at all least week against WVU.

And I believe that actually help them as it makes them even more anxious to play us.  They are even comparing this game to the game U of Kentucky played against them at Starkville last year.  They feel if they can beat us then they can possibly go to a bowl game themselves.

And this game is far from a 100 percent lock for us U of Kentucky to win.  Miss. St. just lost to us 13-7 two years ago at Commonwealth and 34-31 last year to us at Starkville.  That gives them much needed confidence as they think they "know" that they can beat us.  We cannot overlook them at all.

A lot is at stake for us even more so than them IMHO.  That treasured 7th win which will lock us up in a bowl game even if we lose our last 3 games which I don't think we will to begin with.  A share of the SEC East Title, which sadly we lose just about every tie-breaker right now since both our wins came against the SEC West and both our losses come against the SEC East.  A New Year's Bowl Game, and most importantly a 9, 10, or even an 11 win season for us believe it or not.

Three keys to this very crucial game for us will be our attitute of whether we take them lightly or not, turnovers, and a fast start as usual.

We need to get in front against Miss. St. and bury them as quickly in the game as possible.  We need to get in front at least by 10 points at the end of the 1st quarter.  If we do that we will be fine the rest of the game IMHO.

Second is turnovers.  We have only forced 1 turnover in the past two games against SEC powerhouses LSU and Florida and still beat LSU and lost by just a slim margin against Florida.  Again we will be just fine if we don't turn the ball over at all on offense or special teams.

Last of all but certainly not least is our attitude in this game.  Mississippi St. looks at this game every year as a game they feel they have a 50/50 shot of winning.   They have come very close to doing just that the two years.  And last year was our very best team ever until this year.  Still they feel they have a legitimate shot at beating us.  And they are justified because of the last two games.

I just don't see this U of Kentucky Football team overlooking Miss. St. this year thank God.  Our team's attitude and leadership won't let us.  In fact i think the last two close games against Miss. State will help us instead of hurt us because we know 100 percent they can beat us if we don't play our very best game.  I think we will be just fine this year though.  This is not even the same Kentucky team we had last year which was the best ever.  We still have many goals left in front of us, and I just don't see us letting up any at all against Miss. St this year.

In my opinion we should be just fine Saturday.  I love our chances against Mississippi State the 3rd time around.  I'm very positive about this game at the present time.  We have too much to play for to have a slip-up right now, and our team knows that 100 percent certain.

GO 'CATS!  WE BELIEVE!  SHOCK THE WORLD!