No. 9 Texas A&M loses at home to Kentucky, meaning SEC will have two top-10 teams tumble

The powerhouse Southeastern Conference will have at least two top-10 teams lose in Week 3.It could be three if No. 10 Alabama doesn’t beat pesky Florida State.Kentucky stunned No. 9 Texas A&M on the road Saturday, winning 31-21 behind three transfers: quarterback Kenny Minchey, running back CJ Baxter and safety Jordan Castell.Minchey, a Notre Dame transfer, completed 14 of 18 passes for 252 yards and two touchdowns.

He connected on his final 11 throws. Baxter, a former Texas standout, ran for 87 yards and two scores. Castell, a three-year starter at Florida, finished with a team-high 13 tackles and an interception.“I’m not shocked,” first-year coach Will Stein said on the field afterward.

“This is how these guys practiced every single day. This is what Kentucky football is supposed to look like. So proud of our guys coming on the road, the eye of the storm.

Let’s go!”Stein, 36, replaced longtime Kentucky coach Mark Stoops in December and became the third first-year Wildcats coach to beat a top-10 team — first since Joker Phillips in 2010.“We knew it was going to be a bar fight, a fistfight, old school,” Stein said. That’s how we won the game.“This is what we wanted, BBN. 7 LSU and eighth-ranked Ole Miss will finish later Saturday and provide another top-10 loss.Alabama led Florida State 26-21 at halftime, rallying after trailing 21-6 early in the second quarter.

It was an eye-popping deficit for a Crimson Tide team that shockingly lost at home to the Seminoles to open last season.LSU-Ole Miss game is the one to watchLane Kiffin was wildly booed long before he arrived at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on Saturday for the LSU-Ole Miss game.Kiffin appeared remotely on ESPN's “College GameDay," and Mississippi fans still angry about how he left the Rebels for LSU late last season greeted him with a chorus of expletive-laced chants. It was a clear sign of what Kiffin and the Tigers should expect when they play at Ole Miss later Saturday.“I really appreciate you guys gaslighting them with this,” Kiffin said from the team hotel.It was the latest in a growing buildup for the first top-10 matchup between No. 7 LSU and eight-ranked Ole Miss since 1962.It started when Kiffin left the Rebels to take the LSU job and a $91 million contract just as the team he had coached for six years was days…