The University of Kentucky began playing football in 1881. In all the time since, no Wildcats team has ever reached 11 wins in a regular season.
So when SEC Network analyst Chris Doering last week picked the 2022 Cats to go 11-1, the former Florida wide receiver was predicting a season of unprecedented bounty for UK.
Yet Doering’s projection, which sounds like Big Blue heaven on earth, contained a hellish element. The one loss Doering foresaw for Mark Stoops and troops in 2022 was to the one team that has been tormenting the Big Blue Nation for eons.