Kentucky football went from getting its butt kicked to kicking butt. Ten months ago, coach Mark Stoops, the winningest coach in program history, suffered a loss that was the straw that broke the camel’s back: a 41–0 defeat to rival Louisville in the season’s final game that led to this blunt summation from Stoops.
“Didn’t play very good, didn’t coach very good and got our butts kicked,” he said at the time.