For a Kentucky football program that so often plays the “we get no respect” card, the 2022 Wildcats are basking in preseason esteem.
Last month at SEC Media Days, reporters voted Mark Stoops and troops ahead of perennial UK nemeses Florida and Tennessee in second place behind defending national champion Georgia in the conference’s East Division.
For only the fifth time in school history, the Cats were ranked in the preseason AP Top 25 at No. 20.