In 2018, during the run-up to Kentucky’s SEC football showdown with No. 14 Mississippi State, two primary storylines dominated the discourse.
One was that UK’s history under Mark Stoops had been of struggling against dual-threat quarterbacks such as MSU’s Nick Fitzgerald. The other was that, under Stoops, Kentucky had never won a “draw-a-line-in-the-sand”-type game in Lexington.
So after the UK defense bottled up Fitzgerald and the Wildcats throttled MSU 28-7 before a giddy crowd at Kroger Field, Stoops in his postgame news conference had a message for those who had created the pregame narratives.
