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Gonzalez left Cal with one year of eligibility remaining and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of 1997 NFL Draft. He died in 2021, at 59 years old. With the help of its member schools, fans and members of the media, we have been able . Baseball Baseball: Facebook Baseball: Twitter Baseball: Instagram Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Facebook Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: Twitter Cross Country: Instagram . Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. 14 Kentucky (12-18, 2-14 SEC). Bottom line: Colorado State's Trey McBride won the John Mackey Award as the nation's best tight end in 2021, but his most impressive college season may have been in 2020. Baseball. "Facts and Figures" University of Kentucky Football, 1942 Collection: University of Kentucky Football Media Guides Date: 1942 Format: athletic publications 3. The Wildcats scored 217 points while allowing 208 points. Hudson still holds NCAA career records for a tight end for catches per game (5.4) and receiving yards per game (75.3), and he set the single-game NCAA receiving record for tight ends with 13 receptions for 259 yards against archrival Utah in 1981. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Baseball. The Aggies (8-19) were 2-14 in the SEC regular season under first-year coach Joni Taylor, hired from Georgia a year ago to replace the retired Gary Blair, with home victories over Georgia and. vs Ball State. The most comprehensive coverage of Kentucky Wildcats Football on the web with highlights, scores, news, schedules, rosters, and more! Bottom line: There was something thrilling about watching Dallas Clark play during his time at Iowa, then in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts catching passes from Peyton Manning. RELATED: Stadium Talk's 2022 High School All-American Team, Born: Feb. 12, 1963 (San Jose, California), High School: Leland High School (San Jose, California), Career highlights: NCAA Division II Team of the Quarter Century (2000), three-time All-WFC (1983-85), WFC Offensive Player of the Year (1985), AP All-American (1985), four-time Pro Bowl (1992-95), East-West Shrine Game (1985), three-time NFL All-Pro (1992-94), three-time Super Bowl champion (1993, 1995, 1996), College Football Hall of Fame. High School: Napa High School (Napa, California), Career highlights: Two-time CFP National Champion (2021, 2022), John Mackey Award (2022), two-time AP All-American (2021, 2022), two-time All-SEC (2021, 2022), SEC Freshman of the Year (2021). Born: June 12, 1979 (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), High School: Twin River Valley High School (Bode, Iowa), Career highlights: John Mackey Award (2002), AP All-American (2002), All-Big Ten (2002), NFL All-Pro (2009), Pro Bowl (2009), Super Bowl champion (2010), NFL All-Rookie Team (2003). [3], The victory over Georgia was the season's high point. That's when the Fort Morgan, Colorado, product caught 22 passes for 330 receiving yards and four touchdowns, as the Rams only played four games that season because of the pandemic. The team earned their second consecutive NCAA Division I-AA playoff berth, making it to the quarterfinals. Bottom line: Florida Atlantic's Harrison Bryant broke new ground as a senior in 2019 when he became the first player outside the Group of Five to win the John Mackey Award as the nation's tight end after he racked up 65 receptions for 1,004 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. Read more about our data coverage. Bottom line: There haven't been a lot of great football highlights for Virginia fans to point to in the last 20 years but Heath Miller's time there is definitely one of them. Novacek was a star on the next level as well, winning three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys in the early 1990s while making five Pro Bowls. In a testament to how little NFL players were being paid in the late 1970s, MacAfee retired from football instead of moving to offensive guard following two seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. Losses to #12 Alabama and at #19 LSU followed. Scoreboard; Box Scores; Previews; Injury Report; I don't want to hear it. Full Bio. The 1988 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. Hudson played two seasons in the USFL and one season in the NFL before he retired from football. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Ivy Joe Hunter Position: RB 6-0 , 237lb (183cm, 107kg) Born: November 16 in Gainesville, FL (Age: 56-082d) More bio, uniform, draft, salary info 45 45 SUMMARY Career G 45 AV 1 Rush 31 Yds 100 Y/A 3.2 TD 0 FantPt 19.7 Ivy Joe Hunter Overview Game Logs Career 1989 1990 1991 Player Game Finder Splits Career 1989 1990 1991 Player Split Finder More In the last 30 years, the tight end position has changed the game of football. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. This article about a sports team in Kentucky is a stub. 1988 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Last edited on 21 December 2021, at 03:29, 1988 NCAA Division I-AA independents football standings, NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll, NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee Poll, "6th interception does it as Western survives Western Illinois comeback", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1988_Western_Kentucky_Hilltoppers_football_team&oldid=1061339591, ^ NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant, This page was last edited on 21 December 2021, at 03:29. 1900's - (Won 25; Lost 43) | 1902-03 | 1903-04 | 1904-05 | 1905-06 | 1906-07 | 1907-08 | 1908-09 | 1909-10 | Return to statistics, team schedules, opponents, players, games, coaches, opposing coaches or Kentucky Wildcat Homepage Note: Above, I use the convention that the decade ends with the tenth year and begins with the first. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Bryant has started 21 games in three seasons for the Cleveland Browns since the franchise drafted him in the fourth round in 2020 and was an NFL All-Rookie Team pick that year. Born: April 19, 1965 (Little Rock, Arkansas), High School: Parkview High School (Little Rock, Arkansas), Career highlights: Two-time AP All-American (1986, 1987), National Champion (1985), NFL All-Rookie Team (1988), six-time Pro Bowl (1988-90, 1992, 1994, 1996), four-time NFL All-Pro (1988-90, 1992, 1996), NFC Rookie of the Year (1988), Super Bowl champion (1997), NCAA Silver Anniversary Award (2013), College Football Hall of Fame. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Schedule Roster News (opens in a new tab) . 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Kentucky football roster: Who UK is losing and adding through the transfer portal during offseason Seniors returning to Kentucky football S Tyrell Ajian A two-year starter, Ajian totaled. Born: Feb. 27, 1976 (Torrance, California), High School: Huntington Beach High School (Huntington Beach, California), College: University of California, Berkeley, Career highlights: AP All-American (1996), All-Pac-10 (1996), 10-time NFL All-Pro (1999-04, 2006-08, 2012), 14-time Pro Bowl (1999-2008, 2010-13), NFL 2000s All-Decade Team, NFL 100th Anniversary Team, NFL All-Rookie Team (1997), Pro Football Hall of Fame. But he turned that into a college career at Missouri, where he became a star in the Big Eight Conference, leading the league in touchdown receptions in 1977 and 1978. MacAfee went to dental school and moved back to Massachusetts, where he opened up his own practice. College Football at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. Bottom line: Ken MacAfee was one of the most highly recruited tight ends ever after he led Brockton High to back-to-back Massachusetts state championships. 1997-1998 Kentucky Basketball Roster Seated (l to r): Assistant Coach Mike Sutton, Head Coach Orlando "Tubby" Smith, Saul Smith, Cameron Mills, Jeff Sheppard, Wayne Turner, Steve Masiello, Assistant Coach George Felton, Assistant Coach Shawn Finney. 02/19/22- Girls Sweet 16 Tickets on Sale Now! See our list of forfeits and vacated games for more details. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Do you have a sports website? Bottom line: BYU's Gordon Hudson is just one of two tight ends to be named a unanimous AP All-American twice, alongside Oklahoma's Keith Jackson. Bottom line: Even with one year of college football remaining in the almost certain case he leaves school early for the NFL Draft, it's a no-brainer to put current Georgia tight end Brock Bowers on this list among the greatest college football tight ends of all time. Wednesday marked the close of college football's first transfer portal window. In an interesting twist, Clark played linebacker for Iowa before converting to tight end in 2001. If you find an advertisement in the rotation that is viewed as inappropriate for the web site, please click on web site feedback below, and report the exact URL of the ad. 4 overall pick the highest drafted tight end in NFL history. Mother, Beth Kelley Levis, was two-time All-America soccer player at Yale and has been inducted into the Connecticut Girls' Soccer Association Hall of Fame Uncle, David Kelley, also was an Academic All-America football player at Yale. With his talent and size, Winslow would have been a star in any era he played. Bottom line: Kellen Winslow didn't even play football until his senior year at powerhouse East St. Louis Senior High. He had two seasons with over 900 receiving yards at Northeastern as a junior and as a senior and had his No. Bottom line: Oklahoma's Keith Jackson is the shortest tight end to make the list at 6-foot-2 that's probably spotting him an inch but it would have been almost unfair if he'd been any taller. The No. 1987-1988 Kentucky Basketball Roster 86 SHARES Share Tweet Front Row (l to r): Head Coach Eddie Sutton, Assistant Coach James Dickey, Ed Davender, Derrick Miller, Rex Chapman, Eric Manuel, Winston Bennett, Reggie Hanson, Johnathon Davis, Sean Sutton, Assistant Coach Dwane Casey, Assistant Coach Jimmy Dykes, Assistant Coach Roger Harden. Open menu. High School: Fort Morgan High School (Fort Morgan, Colorado), Career highlights: John Mackey Award (2021), two-time AP All-American (2020, 2021), three-time All-Mountain West (2019-21). In the first meeting this season, EKU won 62-59 in Richmond on Jan. 8. He was also a two-time NFL All-Pro with the Cincinnati Bengals, setting a Super Bowl record with 11 receptions for 104 receiving yards and two touchdowns in a loss to the San Francisco 49ers in 1983. When you look at the teams that have won national championships in recent memory, it's not hard to look at their rosters and pick out dynamic tight ends who helped them get to that level here's a look at the greatest college football tight ends in history.