How to Watch | Kentucky vs. No. 20 Ole Miss football: TV, odds, what to know | Sports

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- For some reason, it's always a nail-biter when Kentucky and Ole Miss meet. Each of the past four meetings has been decided by a field goal or less, including UK's 20-17 upset in Oxford last season, the highest-ranked road win of the Mark Stoops era. It also was the highest ranked SEC opponent UK had ever beaten on its home field.

Some things to know about Saturday's matchup:

The Time

3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, Sept. 6, Kroger Field (61,000), Lexington

How to Watch / Listen

TV: ABC (Sean McDonough play-by-play; Greg McElroy analyst; Molly McGrath sideline). Streaming: ESPN app.

Radio: UK Sports Network (Tom Leach play-by-play; Jeff Piecoro analyst; Dick Gabriel sideline). Streaming:UKAthletics.com. Satellite radio: Sirius XM 132/191.

The Line

Spread: Ole Miss is a 10-point favorite (DraftKings)

Over/Under: 50.5

Notes: Under Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss is 1-4 straight up and 0-5 against the spread in SEC openers. UK is 6-6 straight up and 8-4 against the spread in SEC openers under Stoops. Their last four meetings have been decided by a total of 10 points.

The Coaches

Kentucky: Mark Stoops (13th season, 77-74 at UK)

Ole Miss: Lane Kiffin (sixth season, 45-18 at Ole Miss; 106-52 overall)

The Last Meeting

Kentucky stunned No. 6/5 Ole Miss in Oxford last year, 20-17, behind 243 passing yards and a late defensive stand. It marked UK's first road win over a top-6 team since Penn State in 1977. Ole Miss kicker Caden Davis hooked a 48-yard field-goal attempt way wide with 48 seconds left after UK scored the game-winner with 2:25 left when backup QB Gavin Wimsatt was heading toward the goal line with a keeper when an Ole Miss defender knocked the ball free — right to tight end Josh Kattus, who fell into the end zone. It was set up by a 63-yard completion on fourth down.

Series History

Ole Miss leads the series 30-15-1.

In Lexington: tied 11-11-1.

The Records

Kentucky: 1-0, after a 24-16 win over Toledo.

Ole Miss: 1-0, after a 63-7 rout of Georgia State.

Players to Watch

Kentucky: Nebraska transfer Dante Dowdell broke a 79-yard TD run late and finished with 129 yards on 14 carries in the season-opener. RB Seth McGowan, a transfer from New Mexico State, added 78 yards and a TD. Linebacker Alex Afari Jr. totaled a career-high 13 tackles in the opener against Toledo, the most ever for a UK player in a season-opener. QB Zach Calzada, a seventh-year player, is looking to bounce back from a rocky opener, in which he passed for only 85 yards.

Ole Miss: Sophomore quarterback Austin Simmons threw for 341 yards and three TDs in his starting debut last week against Georgia State. Kewan Lacy, aMissouri transfer RB, rushed for 108 yards, three TDs, while Harrison Wallace III had 130 yards receiving and a score vs. GSU. Preseason All-American linebacker Suntarine Perkins is one sack from cracking Ole Miss top 10 all-time.

Quick Sideline Storylines

Kentucky will face six ranked teams this season — tied for the fifth-toughest schedule in FBS according to USA Today.
Stoops is 1-3 against Kiffin; UK hasn't beaten Ole Miss in Lexington since 2011.
Kentucky has lost seven straight SEC games in Kroger Field.
Ole Miss, ranked No. 20 in the latest AP poll, has won 10+ games in back-to-back years for the first time since 1959–60.
Each of the last four UK-UM games was decided by 3 points or fewer, including an OT thriller in 2020.
Kentucky is 12-18 against ranked opponents since 2018.
Blue/White Game: One side of Kroger Field will wear white for the Ole Miss game, the other side blue.

The Quote

"I have a lot of respect for Lane. We communicate and he's a very likable person, a very good coach. Even when I wouldn't say our relationship was close, but go back many years, back to my days at Arizona and him at USC. He's always been a great offensive mind and I have a lot of respect for him and his family, his father, and brothers and everybody. Great family, very good coach, and he's done a great job."

— Mark Stoops on the Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin