Disappointing. Embarrassing. Disgusting. Awful. Heartbroken. Horrible. Frustrated.

That’s what the long-suffering Big Blue Nation is feeling like after witnessing the football Wildcats’ second-half collapse in a season-opening setback to Southern Miss Saturday night after Kentucky once led with a very comfortable margin of 35-10.

Tweeted Oscar Combs, the founder of The Cats’ Pause magazine, after the Kentucky loss. “Devastating! Thought I had seen it all the past 51 years at UK. I had not. No need for further comment. So sad. Good night sports fans.”

Click here for full column in Lexington's KyForward.com

Jim Spanarkel & Verne Lundquist at UK-Cincinnati's NCAA basketball game in 2015 (Photo by Jamie H. Vaught)