<P> In the 2017 - 2018 season, the Wildcats opened the season with a victory over Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg 24 - 17 . The next week, the Wildcats defeated the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in their home opener at the newly renamed Kroger Field in Lexington . Following a road victory over the South Carolina Gamecocks, they failed to defeat the Florida Gators, who they have not defeated since 1986 . This extended the longest losing streak in SEC history to 31 years . Responding to the criticized loss to Florida, the Wildcats defeated Eastern Michigan and Missouri at Kroger Field, improving their record to 5 - 1 . </P> <P> Following their bye week, the Kentucky Wildcats fell to ranked Mississippi State team in Starkville, Mississippi by a score of 45 - 7 . However, the Wildcats improved to 6 - 2 by defeating the Tennessee Volunteers by a score of 29 - 26 at Kroger Field in Lexington, KY . The victory over Tennessee was Kentucky's second victory since 1984 over the Volunteers, and secured Kentucky in postseason eligibility . This was followed by a loss to Ole Miss at home 37 - 34 on November 4 and a dominating road win over unranked Vanderbilt on November 11, 44 - 21 . The Wildcats then lost to Georgia 42 - 13 in Athens, Georgia on November 18, 2017 . In their last regular season game against Louisville on November 25, Kentucky was beaten at home 44 - 17 . Kentucky then proceeded to play Northwestern in Nashville, Tennessee in the Music City Bowl on December 29, and the Kentucky Wildcats lost 24 - 23 . </P> <P> In 2018, After beating Central Michigan, Kentucky went to Gainesville to face the Florida Gators, who had won 31 straight against Kentucky, and ended their losing streak with a 27 - 16 win at the Swamp . It was the Wildcats first win in Gainesville since 1979 . They added wins in the next two weeks over Murray State and No. 14 Mississippi State, the second of which put Kentucky into the Top 25 . It was the Wildcats first time being ranked since 2007 . </P> <P> The NCAA has never officially recognized a national champion from among the bowl coalition institutions, but in 2004 the NCAA commissioned Jeff Sagarin to use his computer model to retroactively determine the highest ranked teams for the years prior to the BCS . His champion for the 1950 season is Kentucky . The polls for the 1950 national champion, taken before the bowl games were played, list either Oklahoma (AP, Berryman, Helms, Litkenhous, UPI, Williamson), Princeton (Boand, Poling), or Tennessee (Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, Missouri, Don Faurot Football Research, National Championship Foundation, Sagarin (ELO - Chess)). Tennessee was the winner of the Cotton Bowl and the only team to beat Kentucky during the 1950 season . Oklahoma was named National Champion by AP and UPI Coaches' Poll, both which awarded their titles before the bowl games . Kentucky would go on to beat Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl . </P>

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