Hot take or emerging consensus: There's no game on Kentucky's 2017 schedule that appears unwinnable.
But what's the toughest game on Kentucky's schedule in 2017?
The CatsIllustrated.com staff goes to the round table.
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T.J. Walker, Basketball Recruiting Analyst: The Georgia game will be Kentucky's most difficult game. The Bulldogs are probably the most talented team UK will face in 2017 and that game will be on the road. But it's also not an ideal matchup for the Cats, despite Kentucky looking like the better team last season in a heartbreaking loss.
Georgia is going to run, run, run and there are still a lot of question marks about UK's defensive line. Plus, Georgia may be playing for the SEC East and potentially a spot in the College Football Playoffs. UK won't go to Athens and face a Georgia team with nothing to play the remainder of the season.
Other candidates would be Florida and Louisville. The Gators are loaded with future NFL players and Louisville has Lamar Jackson. However, both of those games are at Kroger Field and the Cats should have a huge home field advantage.
Derek Terry, Beat Writer: Georgia. Road games in the SEC are difficult to win, and Georgia might have more talent than anyone else in the East. The Wildcats haven't won in Athens since 2009, so it's obviously difficult for UK to leave Georgia with a win. This year won't be any different.
Justin Rowland, Publisher: Florida and Georgia are the two obvious choices because either one of them could be the right choice and it's tough for me to make a case for another. I'll go with Georgia, even though UK has traditionally played UGA tougher than Florida or Tennessee, and even though last year's game against the Gators was flat out ugly.
I'm going Georgia because the game is in Athens, because the Bulldogs have a devastating one-two punch in the backfield with Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, and because Kirby Smart's defense slowed down Kentucky's ground game a little better than some other teams on the back half of last year's schedule. I'm not saying Jacob Eason will be a world beater in 2017, but he's going to be better and I don't see a lot of glaring weaknesses for UK to exploit. Georgia's my pick for the year's toughest game.
