2008 Liberty Bowl - Unpredictable Play Gives Kentucky Late-scoring Win Over East Carolina, 25-19
Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley
Imagine yourself as Ventrell Jenkins china yiwu factory. a 6-foot-2. 285-pound defensive tackle for Kentucky who has been working all afternoon to help his Wildcat teammates upset East Carolina in the 2008 Liberty Bowl. The score is tied 19-19 and there is exactly 3:02 left in the 4th quarter.
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The next thing you know Cheap . your teammates are piling on you in the end zone. Kentucky now leads 25-19 and your Wildcats are on their way to winning their 3rd straight bowl-game victory with coach Rich Brooks looking happier than a skunk eating cabbage. Not even the late Wholesale Stainless Steel Earring. great Paul “Bear” Bryant won 3 consecutive bowl games when he coached the Kentucky Wildcats.
Kentucky held on with 2:56 left. stopping East Carolina and running out the clock to make their 25-19 lead stick. Jenkins wound up being the Most Valuable Player by using an offensive move on his historic 56-yard touchdown return by a defensive tackle not known as a speedster. This is why we love college football and why we watch bowl games. You could not write a more unlikely script and have it come true.
Skip Holtz and his East Carolina Pirates had just won their first ever Conference USA championship title and knocked off Virginia Tech and West Virginia. two BCS conference teams. coming into the Liberty Bowl Friday (1-2-09). The Pirates finished the year at 9-5.
Kentucky was only a 6-6 team coming into the Liberty Bowl. but was not exactly a total pushover Replica Handbags. having lost to Alabama by 3 points on the road and to South Carolina by 7 at home. Florida then crushed the Wildcats 63-5 and Kentucky would go on to lose its last 3 games to Georgia(Wire Bangle Wholesale). Vanderbilt and Tennessee. But in football. you cannot predict how the ball will bounce; sometimes lady luck comes calling . even for a Wildcat.
After being down 16-3 at the half Stainless Corrosion Rings Jewelry. senior wide receiver Dave Jones took the ensuing kickoff back for a Liberty Bowl-record 99-yard touchdown return Tie Clip Steel Jewelry. and the Pirates came to life. Two possessions later back-up quarterback Mike Hartline found sophomore wide receiver Kyrus Lanxter for a 19-yard scoring toss.
The Pirates would manage a field goal in the 3rd quarter but that was it. Kentucky outscored East Carolina 22-3 in the 2nd half. The Wildcat defense held East Carolina to only 3-of-19 third-down conversions.
Neither team had a running game. Hartline yiwu jewelry factory. a sophomore who was filling in for injured freshman starter Randall Cobb. completed 19-of-31 for 204 yards. If you are a Kentucky Wildcat fan Rings. the stats meant little and the victory meant everything.
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