Brock Vandagriff and backup quarterback Cutter Boley each threw two touchdown passes, Jamarion Wilcox rushed for a career-high 123 yards and a score and Kentucky totaled season highs in scoring and yardage to roll past Murray State 48-6 on Saturday and stop a four-game losing streak.

Kentucky must win at Texas and against Louisville in the regular-season finale to extend its eight-year bowl streak. That prospect already looks remote, but with postseason play technically still possible can Stoops and Hamdan afford to start Boley at Texas considering how he looked in his only SEC experience to date?

The game featured 24 penalties between the two teams. Kentucky, which was playing without seven normal starters, overcame two badly underthrown deep passes by starting quarterback Brock Vandagriff on its first two drives — one bounced off a Murray State ...

Kentucky football quarterback Cutter Boley talks to the media after the Wildcats’ 48-6 win over the Murray State Racers on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Lexington. Boley threw for 130 yards and two touchdowns to Anthony Brown-Stephens.