LEXINGTON, Ky. — As Merriam-Webster defines it, a zero-sum game is a “situation in which one person or group can win something only by causing another person or group to lose it.”
When you get down to it, college football is a zero-sum game.
And so it has been in the SEC East. If one group goes up, another group must go down. As traditional powers Florida and Tennessee have fallen on hard times lately, Kentucky has been on the rise, posting a pair of 10-win seasons over the past four years, going 17-17 in the SEC over the same time frame, a definite improvement on the struggles of seasons past.
