With its offense struggling Saturday afternoon, as per usual in SEC games this season, Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops finally made the move the fan base had been clamoring for: As the third quarter got underway, Stoops installed freshman Cutter Boley ...

Cutter Boley flashed plenty of potential in spite of Kentucky’s 31-14 road loss to No. 3 Texas on Saturday. Enough so that movie star Matthew McConaughey had to meet the true freshmen afterward to give him some praise.

Linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson briefly gave Kentucky hope though by returning a Quinn Ewers fumble 25 yards for a touchdown to cut the deficit to 10 with 2:41 left in the third quarter, but Texas ended that hope with an 8-minute fourth quarter touchdown drive.

The loss at Texas might have provided a glimpse of the future of Kentucky football. It’s not because of the final result, but the players who were in the game when the Wildcats put a little pressure on the Longhorns in the second half.

Kentucky must win at Texas and against Louisville in the regular-season finale to extend its eight-year bowl streak. That prospect already looks remote, but with postseason play technically still possible can Stoops and Hamdan afford to start Boley at Texas considering how he looked in his only SEC experience to date?

Kentucky linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson returned a fumble 25 yards for a touchdown, but Kentucky lost at No. 3 Texas 31-14 on Saturday. Freshman Cutter Boley played the second half for the Cats and completed 10 of 18 passing for 160 yards.

Heading into this season, Kentucky football fans were hopeful that the quarterback position was in good hands with Brock Vandagriff. The Georgia Bulldogs transfer was a five-star recruit coming out of high school,