2007 Kentucky Wildcats football team

The 2007 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the college football season of 2007–2008. The team's head football coach was Rich Brooks, in his 5th year as Kentucky's head coach. The Wildcats played their home games at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. The team is remembered by many college football fans for its prolific offense, led by seniors Rafael Little, Keenan Burton, Stevie Johnson, and André Woodson.

2007 Kentucky Wildcats football
Music City Bowl champion
Music City Bowl, W 35–28 vs. Florida State
Conference	Southeastern Conference
	Eastern Division
2007 record	8–5 (3–5 SEC)
Head coach	Rich Brooks (5th season)
Offensive coordinator	Joker Phillips (3rd season)
Defensive coordinator	Steve Brown (1st season)
Home stadium	Commonwealth Stadium (Capacity: 67,606)

2007 Southeastern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Eastern Division
No. 12 Tennessee xy		6	–	2					10	–	4
No. 2 Georgia x%		6	–	2					11	–	2
No. 13 Florida		5	–	3					9	–	4
South Carolina		3	–	5					6	–	6
Kentucky		3	–	5					8	–	5
Vanderbilt		2	–	6					5	–	7
Western Division
No. 1 LSU x$#		6	–	2					12	–	2
No. 15 Auburn		5	–	3					9	–	4
Arkansas		4	–	4					8	–	5
Mississippi State		4	–	4					8	–	5
Alabama		4	–	4					7	–	6
Ole Miss		0	–	8					3	–	9
Championship: LSU 21, Tennessee 14
– BCS National Champion $ – BCS representative as conference champion % – BCS at-large representative x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant Alabama had 5 victories vacated by the NCAA in 2010. As such, the official record for Alabama is 2–6 (1–4). Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	6:00 pm	Eastern Kentucky*		Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY	BBSN	W 50–10	66,512[1]
September 8	6:00 pm	Kent State*		Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY	BBSN	W 56–20	67,380[1]
September 15	6:00 pm	No. 9 Louisville*		Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY (Battle for the Governor's Cup)	ESPNC	W 40–34	68,857[1]
September 22	7:00 pm	at Arkansas	No. 21	Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium Fayetteville, AR	ESPN2	W 42–29	74,015[1]
September 29	1:00 pm	Florida Atlantic*	No. 14	Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY	BBSN	W 45–17	61,927[1]
October 4	8:00 pm	at No. 11 South Carolina	No. 8	Williams-Brice Stadium Columbia, SC	ESPN	L 23–38	76,220[1]
October 13	3:30 pm	No. 1 LSU	No. 17	Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY	CBS	W 43–37 ^3OT	70,902[1]
October 20	3:30 pm	No. 14 Florida	No. 8	Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY (College GameDay)	CBS	L 37–45	71,024[1]
October 27	12:00 pm	Mississippi State	No. 14	Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY (rivalry)	LFS	L 14–31	64,173[1]
November 10	3:00 pm	at Vanderbilt	No. 24	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN (rivalry)	BBSN	W 27–20	39,773[1]
November 17	12:00 pm	at No. 8 Georgia	No. 22	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA	LFS	L 13–24	92,746[1]
November 24	3:30 pm	No. 19 Tennessee		Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, KY (Battle for the Barrel/Senior Day)	CBS	L 50–52 ^4OT	64,813[1]
December 31	4:00 pm	vs. Florida State*		LP Field Nashville, TN (Music City Bowl)	ESPN	W 35–28	62,661[1]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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Game summaries

Eastern Kentucky

	1	2	3	4	Total
Eastern Kentucky	0	3	7	0	10
Kentucky	17	13	20	0	50

André Woodson threw for a 51-yard touchdown on Kentucky's first snap of the season, as the Wildcats rout Eastern Kentucky, 50–10.[3] Kentucky scored five touchdowns on their first eight drives, and punted only once, in the fourth quarter. Rafael Little had 135 yards on the ground for Kentucky.[3]

Kent State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Kent State	7	7	6	0	20
Kentucky	14	0	21	21	56

Kentucky had 266 yards and six touchdowns on the ground, but Kentucky's porous run defense was gashed for 324 yards on the ground by the Golden Flashes.[4] Woodson looked out of sync until he hit Keenan Burton for a fifty-one yard score in the third quarter. Tony Dixon, André Woodson, Alfonso Smith, and Derrick Locke all had one rushing touchdown for Kentucky, where John Conner had two.[4]

Kent State struck first on a fake field goal, ran six yards for a touchdown by holder Leneric Muldrow. Conner ran in from five yards out, and Woodson fired back with a 33-yard touchdown pass to give the Wildcats a 14-7 lead.[4] The Golden Flashes Eugene Jarvis scored on a ten-yard run up the middle, but John Conner and Tony Dixon ran in, and André Woodson hit Keenan Burton to the right for 51 yards and a touchdown. Kent State, down 14–35 answered with a Julian Edelman pass to Eugene Jarvis for a 22-yard touchdown, but Woodson, Alfonso Smith, and Derrick Locke ran in for touchdowns of 1, 12, and 67 yards respectively.[4]

Louisville

	1	2	3	4	Total
#9 Louisville	7	14	7	6	34
Kentucky	13	6	7	14	40

With 28 seconds left, André Woodson threw a 57-yard touchdown pass to Stevie Johnson to knock off #9 Louisville, the first time the Wildcats had beaten a top ten team in thirty years.[5] Woodson finished 30 of 44 for 275 yds and four touchdowns.[5] Woodson also did not throw an interception, and he ended the game with 257 passes without an interception. This became a new SEC record, breaking David Greene's record and falling fourteen attempts short of Trent Dilfer's all-time mark.[5]

Placekicker Lones Seiber started the scoring for the Wildcats with a 36-yard field goal, and Woodson followed later with a five-yard touchdown strike, with another Seiber kick, to make the lead 13–0 in favor of Kentucky.[5] Louisville Senior Quarterback Brian Brohm found Anthony Allen for an eight-yard touchdown. Rafael Little ran up the middle for a ten-yard score in the second quarter, but Seiber missed the PAT, resulting in a 19–7 Kentucky lead. Brian Brohm passed to Harry Douglas for a TD, and Louisville added a ten-yard touchdown run from Anthony Allen to pull in front 21–19.[5]

Opening the second-half scoring, Woodson threw a seven-yard touchdown pass but on the ensuing kickoff lightning struck for the Cardinals in the form of Trent Guy's 100 yard kickoff return. Once again, Kentucky answered with a Woodson pass to Jacob Tamme.[5] Brohm then began an 84-yard drive that ended in Anthony Allen's 2-yard touchdown run and a Cardinal lead. Brohm would've been sacked for a loss on the drive, but a fifteen-yard personal foul penalty on cornerback Trevard Lindley gave the Cardinals room to operate as well as a fresh set of downs.[5] Despite Brohm's heroics, they were topped by Woodson's 57 yard touchdown hookup to wideout Steve Johnson to beat the Cardinals for the first time in Kentucky's last five tries.[5] This was the first time Woodson had gotten a win against Brohm, Woodson's rival dating back to their high schools, separated by only 45 miles.[6]

Arkansas

	1	2	3	4	Total
#19 Kentucky	7	7	7	21	42
Arkansas	10	10	0	9	29

Florida Atlantic

Andre Woodson threw his first interception in his previous 325 attempts, snapping his NCAA record for consecutive passes thrown without an INT.

	1	2	3	4	Total
Florida Atlantic	3	7	0	7	17
#15 Kentucky	7	21	7	10	45

South Carolina

	1	2	3	4	Total
#8 Kentucky	3	7	3	10	23
#6 South Carolina	10	7	7	14	38

LSU

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	3OT	Total
#1 LSU	0	17	10	0	7	3	0	37
#15 Kentucky	7	7	7	6	7	3	6	43

Florida

	1	2	3	4	Total
#14 Florida	14	7	10	14	45
#8 Kentucky	7	3	14	13	37

Mississippi State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mississippi State	7	7	10	7	31
#14 Kentucky	7	0	7	0	14

Vanderbilt

	1	2	3	4	Total
#24 Kentucky	3	10	7	7	27
Vanderbilt	0	13	0	7	20

Georgia

	1	2	3	4	Total
#22 Kentucky	10	0	3	0	13
#8 Georgia	0	7	14	3	24

Tennessee

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	3OT	4OT	Total
#19 Tennessee	14	10	7	0	7	0	6	8	52
Kentucky	0	7	14	10	7	0	6	6	50

Florida State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Kentucky	7	7	14	7	35
Florida State	7	7	0	14	28

Statistics

Quarterback Andre Woodson set a new NCAA record with 325 consecutive pass attempts without an interception. His 40 touchdown passes set a new SEC record, and his 81 career touchdown passes set a new school record.

Team

Team Opp Scoring 475 385   Points per Game 36.5 29.6 First Downs 335 288   Rushing 130 140   Passing 182 129   Penalty 23 19 Total Offense 5764 5163   Avg per Play 5.7 5.3   Avg per Game 443.4 397.2 Fumbles-Lost 30-16 24-10 Penalties-Yards 83-717 84-737   Avg per Game 55.1 56.6

Team Opp Punts-Yards 51-1992 65-2558   Avg per Punt 39.1 39.3 Time of Possession/Game 28:31 31:29 3rd Down Conversions 94/195 88/194 4th Down Conversions 12/22 7/17 Touchdowns Scored 62 45 Field Goals-Attempts-Long     PAT-Attempts     Attendance       Games/Avg per Game

Weekly rankings

Ranking Movement

Poll	Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Final
AP	NR	NR	NR	21	14	8	17	8	14	NR	25	22	NR	NR	NR	NR
Coaches	NR	NR	NR	23	15	8	23	13	15	23	22	20	NR	NR	NR	NR
Harris	Not released				14	7	18	11	15	24	23	20	21	NR	NR	NR
BCS	Not released							7	14	NR	25	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR

Depth chart

Starters

Position	Number	Name	Height	Weight	Class	Hometown	Games↑
QB	3	Andre' Woodson	6'5"	230 lb.	Sr.	Radcliff, Kentucky	13
HB	22	Rafael Little	5'10"	210 lb.	Sr.	Anderson, South Carolina	10
FB	38	John Conner	5'11"	228	So.	West Chester, Ohio	13
WR	19	Keenan Burton	6'2"	195 lb.	Sr.	Louisville, Kentucky	12
WR	13	Stevie Johnson	6'3"	198 lb.	Sr.	San Francisco, California	10
TE	18	Jacob Tamme	6'4"	215 lb.	Sr.	Danville, Kentucky	13
LT	79	Garry Williams	6'0"	300 lb.	Jr.	Louisville, Kentucky	13
LG	72	Zipp Duncan	6'5"	295 lb.	So.	Magnolia, Kentucky	12
C	59	Eric Scott	6'5"	291 lb.	Sr.	Woodstock, Georgia	13
RG	78	Christian Johnson	6'4"	325 lb.	Jr.	Fort Campbell, Kentucky	13
RT	76	Justin Jeffries	6'6"	300 lb.	So.	Louisville, Kentucky	13

Position	Number	Name	Height	Weight	Class	Hometown	Games↑
LE	99	Jeremy Jarmon	6'3"	277 lb.	So.	Collierville, Tennessee	13
LT	98	Myron Pryor	6'1"	310 lb.	So.	Louisville, Kentucky	12
RT	91	Corey Peters	6'3"	290 lb.	So.	Louisville, Kentucky	13
RE	95	Ventrell Jenkins	6'2"	285 lb.	Jr.	Columbia, South Carolina	11
SLB	16	Wesley Woodyard	6'1"	225 lb.	Sr.	LaGrange, Georgia	13
MLB	56	Braxton Kelley	6'0"	230 lb.	Jr.	LaGrange, Georgia	12
WLB	51	Johnny Williams	6'3"	244 lb.	Jr.	Jacksonville, Florida	12
RCB	32	Trevard Lindley	6'0"	175 lb.	So.	Hiram, Georgia	13
LCB	34	Paul Warford	5'10"	200 lb.	So.	Richmond, Kentucky	10
FS	35	Roger Williams	6'0"	204 lb.	Sr.	Rockmart, Georgia	13
SS	2	Marcus McClinton	6'1"	210 lb.	Jr.	Fort Campbell, Kentucky	11

• bold - Denotes returning starter
• ↑ - Denotes number of games started by the player at the listed position during the 2008 season.

Roster

2007 Kentucky Wildcats football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class QB 1 Will Fidler  Fr QB 3 Andre' Woodson  Sr QB 5 Mike Hartline  Fr WR 7 David Jones Sr WR 8 DeMoreo Ford  So RB 9 Brandon Jackson Fr QB 10 Matt Lentz Fr WR 12 Dicky Lyons, Jr.  Jr WR 13 Steve Johnson, Jr. Sr WR 14 Anthony Mosley Fr QB 15 Curtis Pulley Jr TE 18 Jacob Tamme Sr WR 19 Keenan Burton Sr RB 22 Rafael Little Sr WR 26 Terrence Jones So RB 28 Tony Dixon Sr RB 29 Alfonso Smith Jr RB 30 Moncell Allen Fr RB 33 Antoine Brown Jr RB 37 Trey Bowland So FB 38 John Conner Jr FB 40 Maurice Grinter Jr RB 41 Derrick Locke So FB 43 Stephen Ball So FB 47 Matt Ramsey So WR 48 Jayce Long So OL 52 Billy Joe Murphy Fr OL 58 Phillip Hibbard Fr OL 60 Dustin Luck Jr C 61 Jorge Gonzalez Jr OL 63 Jake Lanefski Fr OT 64 Josh Winchell Fr OL 68 Michael Williams Jr OL 70 Stuart Hines Fr OT 72 Zipp Duncan Jr OG 73 Jess Beets Fr OT 74 Joe Fischer Sr OL 75 Brad Durham Fr OT 76 Justin Jeffries Jr OL 77 Marcus Davis So OL 78 Christian Johnson Sr OT 79 Garry Williams Sr TE 80 T. C. Drake Jr WR 81 Kyrus Lanxter Fr TE 82 Tyler Sexton Jr WR 83 Courtney Gholston So WR 83 Anthony Stewart Sr WR 84 Chris Wraley Jr WR 85 Anthony Cecil Jr TE 86 Ross Bogue Jr WR 87 Andre Henderson So TE 88 Chris Goode So	Defense Pos. # Name Class DB 2 Marcus McClinton Sr LB 4 Micah Johnson Jr DB 6 Taiedo Smith Fr DB 11 Greg Wilson Fr DB 15 Chris Drayton Fr LB 16 Wesley Woodyard Sr DB 21 Michael Schwindel Jr DB 23 Shomari Moore Sr DB 24 Randall Burden Fr DB 25 Ahmad Grigsby, Jr. So DB 26 Martin McPherson, Sr DB 27 Ashton Cobb Jr DB 31 Jordan Nevels Jr DB 32 Trevard Lindley So DB 33 Calvin Harrison Jr DB 34 Paul Warford Jr CB 36 Robbie McAtee Sr DE 39 Courtney Coffey So DB 40 Daryl Faulkner So LB 41 Ben Bates Jr LB 42 Chris Cessna Fr LB 43 Mikhail Mabry Jr DE 45 Antwane Glenn Fr LB 46 Ronnie Sneed Fr LB 47 A. J. Nance Jr DB 49 Antonio Thomas Fr LB 50 Sam Maxwell Jr LB 51 Johnny Williams Sr DT 53 Ricky Lumpkin So LB 54 Brandon Thurmond So LB 56 Braxton Kelley Sr LB 57 Jacob Dufrene Fr DL 60 Shane McCord Fr DE 62 Greg Meisner Fr DE 67 Charles Mustafaa Fr DL 67 Joe Scott So DE 69 B. J. Wiedemann So DB 71 James Alexander Jr DE 90 Jamil Paris Jr DT 91 Corey Peters Jr DE 92 Josh Minton So DT 93 Austin Moss Jr DT 95 Ventrell Jenkins Sr DE 97 Nii Adjei Oninku Sr DT 98 Myron Pryor So DE 99 Jeremy Jarmon  So	Special teams Pos. # Name Class P, K 9 Ryan Tydlacka Fr K 36 Lones Seiber Jr P, K 44 Tim Masthay Sr LS 58 Greg Curtin Sr LS 62 Clay Pear So LS 65 J. J. Helton So LS 74 Brad Hartr So K 97 J. J. Housley Sr	Head coach Rich Brooks Coordinators/assistant coaches Joker Phillips (Offensive Coordinator) Steve Brown (Defensive Coordinator) Randy Sanders (Quarterback) Gerad Parker (Graduate Assistant) Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt Roster Last update: October 24, 2016

References

1. "Cumulative Season Statistics". University of Kentucky.
2. "Kentucky in the 2007 AP polls, AP Poll Archive". Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
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