Seven home games at Kroger Field highlight Kentucky’s 2021 football schedule, including back-to-back weeks against heavyweights Florida and LSU to open the month of October, it was announced Wednesday.
The Wildcats kick off the season on Sept. 4 against the ULM Warhawks, the first of three consecutive home games to open the challenging slate. Missouri arrives in Lexington on Sept. 11 for the first conference game of the year before Chattanooga wraps up the homestand on Sept. 18.
On Sept. 25 the Cats hit the road for the first time, beginning a stretch of seven consecutive SEC affairs by traveling to South Carolina to face the Gamecocks and new head coach Shane Beamer. A week later, UK coach Mark Stoops and his squad return home, playing host to Florida (Oct. 2) and LSU (Oct. 9) before concluding the three-week gauntlet with a trip to Georgia on Oct. 16.
After a bye week on Oct. 23, the Cats head south to face Mississippi State in Starkville on Halloween weekend and Vanderbilt on Nov. 13, with border rival Tennessee sandwiched between those road games on Nov. 6 at Kroger Field.